BELLWORK:
1. Pick up handout
2. Vocab Unit 4: Words 9-10
introduction
3. Completing the sentence (pg 57-8):
(#1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 16, 17)
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Wednesday, November 5th
• What am I learning today?
• ELACC11-12L1-6: Demonstrate the correct use of vocabulary and grammar in my writing.
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.11-12.1 Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacherled) with diverse partners on grades 11-12 topics, texts, and issues, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.10 By the end of grade 11, read and comprehend literary nonfiction in the grades 11-CCR text
complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.1Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says
explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.2Determine two or more central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the
course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to provide a complex analysis; provide an
objective summary of the text.
• What am I going to do today?
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Bellwork: vocab intro to Unit 4
Journal Entry: Examining a passage with a CEI
Read chapter 6
Watch 1974 film up to chapter 7
Work on Chapter 4-5 journals in lab 113
• What will I do to show I learned it?
• Continued analysis of characters, themes, symbols, etc. in Gatsby
• Literary analysis paper on The Great Gatsby
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Constructed Response Question: Read the following
passage, then examine the role of the phrase “ghostly heart” in
Fitzgerald’s characterization of Gatsby.
As I went to say goodbye I saw the expression of bewilderment had come back into
Gatsby’s face, as though a faint doubt had occurred to him as to the quality of his present
happiness. Almost five years! There must have been moments even that afternoon when
Daisy tumbled short of his dreams—not through her own fault but because of the colossal
vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself
into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright
feather that drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will
store up in his ghostly heart. (Fitzgerald 101)
C. (claim) In the preceding passage, Fitzgerald characterizes Gatsby as a man who places
great emphasis on Daisy’s presence in his past through the phrase “ghostly heart.”
E. (evidence) Fitzgerald makes it clear that Daisy’s current personality is conflicting with
Gatsby’s aggrandized vision of her: “the expression of bewilderment had come back into
Gatsby’s face, as though a faint doubt had occurred to him as to the quality of his present
happiness” (Fitzgerald 101).
I. (interpretation) Gatsby shows doubt because it is impossible for someone who has been
placed on a pedestal to live up to overblown expectations. Gatsby’s “ghostly heart”
represents his obsession with times before. As Nick notes, this tendency in Gatsby’s
personality can only lead him to disappointment and pain. The “heart” is the symbol of
love, but Gatsby’s heart is filled with ghosts instead. Fitzgerald uses this metaphor to
indicate that an obsession with the past instead of the present is what leads (potentially)
to Gatsby’s downfall.
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Vocab Exercise—words 9-12
Word & Part of speech
Picture
Sentence
EX:
Commiserate (v)
It was nice to
have my best
friend
commiserate
with me on
that awful day.
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