5.02.2010

Q4, week 5 skedj.

Monday
In Class: More on characterization.
Homework: Close annotation on setting. (See post above.)

Day 2
In Class: Ch. 1 & 2 close annotations.
Homework: Gatsby ch. 3, pp. 39-59 (21).

Day 3
In Class: Gatsby's party.
Homework: Gatsby ch. 4, pp. 61-80 (20).

Friday
In Class: Back story revealed.
Homework:
  • Write a solid paragraph synthesizing the following lines from chapter four:
    • “‘I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life’” (66).
    • “‘Anything can happen now that we’ve slid over this bridge’ . . . Even Gatsby could happen, without any particular wonder” (69).
    • “Then it had not been merely the stars to which he had aspired on that June night. He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendor” (78).
  • Gatsby ch. 5, pp. 81-96 (16).

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