Wednesday: CHAPTER 5

"None of it was any longer real"...

Today you will be working on answering some text-specific questions about chapter 5.  I would like you share your answer to the last question on https://todaysmeet.com/Gatsby5

Feel free to continue the conversation, as long as you keep it appropriate (Kevin, I am talking to you).

Please read chapter 6 tonight for timed writing practice tomorrow. 

Tuesday: Share and Respond

Gatsby: Chapters 3 & 4

If you have a tablet or smartphone, please sign on to todaysmeet.com/lamonteap to respond to the assertions presented today.  

Tomorrow, you will be asked to present your assertions about chapter 5 on a different site:

jlamonte.collaborizeclassroom.com

"Spectroscopic Gayety" and Gatsby's Parties

The Great Gatsby: 

"Instead of rambling this party had preserved a dignified homogeneity, and assumed to itself the function of representing the staid nobilty of the countryside--East Egg condescending to West Egg, and carefully on guard against its spectroscopic gayety."

                                spectroscopic: radiated energy, visible light dispersed through a wavelength

Journal Warm-up: Review 1 & 2

Contrast the Buchanan evening with the New York party.

Close Reading

You will be assigned a number up to 9 today. Reread the passage marked below and fill out the "close reading" handout.  Then share with the other classmates who share the same number as you.  At the end of class, I would like you to share your best assertion with the class and/or turn it in to me.

Here are the passages for our close reading group practice for chapters 3 & 4:

Chp 3:

#1: "There was music from my neighbor's house through the summer nights...." to "The party has begun." (paragraphs 1-6)

#2: "'Let's get out,' whispered Jordan..."  to "We shook hands with him gravely and went back outside." (paragraphs 38-58)

#3: "I was still with Jordan Baker" to "...and no singing quartets were formed with Gatsby's head for one link." (paragraphs 60-93)

#4:  "But as I walked down the steps I saw that the evening was not quite over..." to "...the figure of the host who stood on the porch his hand up in a formal gesture of farewell."

#5: "For a while I lost sight of Jordan Baker..."  to "I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known."

Chp 4:

#6: "On Sunday morning while church bells rang..." to "All these people came to Gatsby's house in the summer." (paragraphs 1-10)

#7: "At nine o'clock one morning late in July..." to "Even Gatsby could happen, without any particular wonder."

#8: "Roaring noon." to  "I turned toward Mr. Gatsby, but he was no longer there."

#9: "One October day in nineteen-seventeen---" to "Her wan scornful mouth smiled and so I drew her up again, closer, this time to my face."

FRIDAY POST: Chapter 1 & 2

Link to Lesson 10 Words ( in case you missed them): http://quizlet.com/1385914/lesson-10-book-3-flash-cards/

Today we discussed the passage from chapter 1 that you looked at on Wednesday, looking at how you move from close analysis to big idea.

 We started to talk about the Valley of the Ashes and T.J. Eckleburg as well.

Continue reading chapter 4 this weekend.  We will study passages from 3 and 4 on Monday.

Tuesday: "The High-Bouncing Lover"

Beginning The Great Gatsby

Here is a link to an online version of the novel: http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/f/fitzgerald/f_scott/gatsby/

Today we began the novel, looking closely at how Fitzgerald chose to begin the novel.  We read the first 4 paragraphs closely, looking for information about our narrator.

REMINDERS:

Finish and submit your RA tonight on my dropbox.  (don't forget to share it with me first: jenlamonte@gmail.com)

Read chapter 1 if you can.  Tomorrow I will give you time to take vocab notes on Lesson 10 and expect you to answer questions about chapter 1.  Make sure you have read chapter 2 by Thursday, and chapter 3 by Friday.

MONDAY: Rhetorical Analysis workshop

Sample AP papers 2009 Rhetorical Analysis for this piece: Lippman piece

The goal today is for you to REVISE one of your model paragraphs, using a "move" from a student sample.

MOVES you noticed:  (generated by 2nd and 6th period)

1. The 8 writer uses PRECISE LANGUAGE.
2. Thesis shows control and deep understanding of the argument.
3. SHOW what you mean--tell sparingly.
4. Keep organization open to textual demands---you can vary between strategy and chronology as your focal point in your paragraphs.
5. Take on the big picture in your conclusion.  Consider addressing the rhetorical appeals and organization. 

Tips about RHETORICAL ANALYSIS from FRIDAY

Learning Target:  To develop a rhetorical analysis that links strategies to effect and writer's purpose.

Some things we discussed today:

• Be specific/precise in your intro/thesis--no EMPTY BROAD GENERALIZATIONS!
• Instead of an empty generalization, introduce your topic/subject with concrete language
• Remember the FUNNEL shape--moving from outside the book to your specific argument about the devices in your chosen chapter
• In the body of your paper: wed the strategies to the effect and purpose/theme.  State it explicitly in your thesis and keep working towards it in your body paragraphs!
• After each textual detail, ask "so what?" multiple times to be sure you are deepening your discussion those details. 
• Narrow your focus:  Don't take on ALL of his diction, just the words that build a particular effect.  Don't try to describe EVERY sentence, just characterize the ones you see connected to a particular purpose.

Here is a link to the student sample intro and some successful body paragraphs from the Momaday/Brown practice: RHETORICAL A. SAMPLE SENTENCES/PARAGRAPHS