4.11 Intro Gatsby
April 11, 2013
April 11, 2013
Starter: Read Gatsby- 20
minutes. Look through packet
but don't pre-read chapter
questions unless you want
spoilers. Choose two prompts
and write from the Pre-Reading
Activity page in Gatsby packet.
Read "Learning Targets" for
unit. Read Vocab. for ch. 1-2.
Turn in Treasure
Hunt to basket.
Targets:
Write a theme statement and support it with textual evidence
for "The Flapper" by Dorothy Parker.
Write a response to 2 prompts that are related to themes
from The Great Gatsby.
Explain color symbols
Review vocabulary
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Title: Hills Like White Elephants
Author: Ernest hemingway
Summary of the text: A man and woman are waiting for a train in Spain. They travel a lot and drink excessively. They make reference to an "operation", which is an abortion. The man claims it is a simple operation and that once it is done everything will be "as it was." The girl seems less convinced but says she will do it because she "doesn't care about [herself], only about [him.]" They both drink heavily and they argue and talk "around the subject." Identity: Gender/Racethe American Dream Wealth/Class Man’s Inhumanity to Man
Circle the Unit Theme that this source best Fits. Then make a claim for that Fit below and support with evidence from the text.
"Everything in moderation." A life of excess or consumption leads
to a superficial existence. The couple drink a lot and they travel,
which seems to be the only thing they do in life. The title,
symbolic of the unwanted pregnancy, suggests that their
excessive and frivolous lifestyle would change and become
burdensome, but the white elephant is sacred, as is a child, and
could provide more meaning to their lives than the superficial
pursuit of travel and drinking.
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4.11 Intro Gatsby
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Gatsby- Class format/ Routine
First 20 minutes: Read/ work on packet questions/ complete
reading check quiz.
* Preview vocab for next 2 chapters
* Complete 2 Vocab webs for vocab words (chapters read). 15 min.
* Quote share activity. 15 minutes
* Discussion of chapters (whole class/small groups/ etc.) 25 min.
* Modernism theme ticket out the door
Apr 9-10:55 AM
The Flapper
By Dorothy Parker
The Playful Flapper here we see,
The fairest of the fair.
She's not what Grandma used to be, ‐‐
You might say, au contraire.
Her girlish ways may make a stir,
Her manners cause a scene,
But there is no more harm in her
Than in a submarine.
She nightly knocks for many a goal
The usual dancing men.
Her speed is great, but her control
Is something else again.
All spotlights focus on her pranks.
All tongues her prowess herald.
For which she well may render thanks
To God and Scott Fitzgerald.
Her golden rule is plain enough ‐‐
Just get them young and treat them rough.
The flapper
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I Too
By Langston Hughes
I, too, sing America.
I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.
Tomorrow,
I’ll be at the table
When company comes.
Nobody’ll dare
Say to me,
“Eat in the kitchen,”
Then.
Besides,
They’ll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed—
I, too, am America.
Apr 9-2:53 PM
next to of course god america i
e.e. cummings ``next to of course god america i
love you land of the pilgrims' and so forth oh
say can you see by the dawn's early my
country tis of centuries come and go
and are no more what of it we should worry
in every language even deafanddumb
thy sons acclaim your glorious name by gorry
by jingo by gee by gosh by gum
why talk of beauty what could be more beaut‐
iful than these heroic happy dead
who rushed like lions to the roaring slaughter
they did not stop to think they died instead
then shall the voice of liberty be mute?''
He spoke. And drink rapidly a glass of water
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white:
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green
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gold
yellow/
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grey
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Gatsby Homework and Reading: Next
class: ch. 1 & 2 due and chapter work in
packet.
Gatsby Unit