Monday, February 28, 2011
Good morning, English 11!
Good morning!
Please get a book and sit down
ASAP! We need to hurry!
Turn in late papers in the
basket on the cart.
Put exit pass 7 next to them.
Business!
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If you have not turned in your persuasive paper,
you are currently failing English 11.
You must get me your paper ASAP.
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There is work for you to pick up on the grey table by the
window. Hour 1 is on the left. Get it at the end of the
hour or before class tomorrow when you arrive earlier.
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I have individual grade updates for you.
DO NOT LOSE THIS. Attach any late work to this
grade update and check off what you have attached.
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I am returning a few papers that are incomplete for some
reason. Please get them back to me ASAP.
The Great Gatsby
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Please turn to the
appropriate page and
continue reading.
Ch. 4. – pp. 65 – 86
Read pp. 65 to the
bottom, then jump to p. 68
at the break and pick up
again there.
Pay attention to the
description of
Gatsby’s car.
The Great Gatsby – Chapter 4
“He saw me looking with admiration at his car.
‘It’s pretty, isn’t it, old sport.’ He jumped off to give me a better
view. ‘Haven’t you seen it before?’
I’d seen it. Everybody had seen it. It was a rich cream
color, bright with nickel, swollen here and there in its
monstrous length with triumphant hat-boxes and supperboxes….Sitting down behind many layers of glass in a sort of
green leather conservatory we started to town.”
The Great Gatsby – Chapter 4
“‘I (Gatsby) was
brought up in America
but educated at Oxford
because all my
ancestors have been
educated there for
many years. It is a
family tradition.’
He looked at me
sideways– and I knew
why Jordan Baker had
believed he was lying.
He hurried the phrase
‘educated at Oxford’ or
swallowed it or chocked
on it as though it had
bothered him before.”
p. 69
The Great Gatsby – Chapter 4
“ ‘I was promoted to be a major
and every Allied government
gave me a decoration – even
Montenegro….’
He (Gatsby) reached into his
pocket and a piece of medal,
slung on a ribbon, fell into my
palm.
‘That’s the one from
Montenegro.’
…To my astonishment the thing
had an authentic look.” p. 71
The Great Gatsby – Chapter 4
“ ‘Here’s another
thing I always
carry. A souvenier
of Oxford days. It
was taken in Trinity
Quad…’
It was a
photograph of half
a dozen young
men in
blazers….There
was Gatsby…with
a cricket bat in his
hand.” p. 71
The Great Gatsby – Chapter 4
“ ‘The old Metropole’,
brooded Mr. Wolfsheim
gloomily. ‘Filled with
faces dead and gone….
I can’t forget so long as I
live the night they shot
Rosy Rosenthal there.’”
p. 74
Rosy Rosenthal’s casket.
The Great Gatsby – Chapter 4
“ ‘I see you’re looking
at my cuff buttons.’
I hadn’t been looking
at them, but I did
now. They were
composed of oddly
familiar pieces of
ivory.
‘Finest specimens of
human molars,’ he
informed me. p. 77
Meyer Wolfsheim
The Great Gatsby – Chapter 3
Members of the Chicago White Sox intentionally lost
the 1919 World Series to win money from gamblers.
“ ‘A dentist?’
‘Meyer Wolfsheim? No, he’s a gambler.’ Gatsby hesitated,
then added cooly: ‘He’s the man who fixed the World’s Series
back in 1919.’” p. 78
The Great Gatsby – Chapter 4
“ ‘In June she (Daisy)
married to Tom
Buchanan of
Chicago….the day
before the wedding he
gave her a string of
pearls valued at three
hundred and fifty
thousand dollars.’”
p. 80
The Great Gatsby – Chapter 4
“‘I came into her (Daisy’s) room half
an hour before the bridal dinner and
found her lying on her bed…as
drunk as a monkey. She had a
bottle of sauterne in one hand and
a letter in the other.
…She groped around in a waste
basket…and pulled out the string of
pearls. ‘Take ‘em downstairs and
give ‘em back to whoever they
belong to. Tell ‘em Daisy’s change
her mine.’
…we locked the door and got her
into a cold bath. She wouldn’t let
go of the letter.’” p. 81
The Great Gatsby – Chapter 4
“But she didn’t say
another word….half an
hour later when we
walked out of the room
the pearls were around
her neck and the incident
was over. Next day at
five o’clock she married
Tom Buchanan without so
much as a shiver…”
p. 81