Text to Film
Create 3 frames on a storyboard for the following passage:
. . One autumn night, five years before, they had been walking down the street when the leaves were falling, and they came to a place where there were no trees and the sidewalk was white with moonlight. They stopped here and turned toward each other. Now it was a cool night with that mysterious excitement in it which comes at the two changes of the year. The quiet lights in the houses were humming out into the darkness and there was a stir and bustle among the stars. Out of the corner of his eye Gatsby saw that the blocks of the sidewalks really formed a ladder and mounted to a secret place above the trees — he could climb to it, if he climbed alone, and once there he could suck on the pap of life, gulp down the incomparable milk of wonder.
. . One autumn night, five years before, they had been walking down the street when the leaves were falling, and they came to a place where there were no trees and the sidewalk was white with moonlight. They stopped here and turned toward each other. Now it was a cool night with that mysterious excitement in it which comes at the two changes of the year. The quiet lights in the houses were humming out into the darkness and there was a stir and bustle among the stars. Out of the corner of his eye Gatsby saw that the blocks of the sidewalks really formed a ladder and mounted to a secret place above the trees — he could climb to it, if he climbed alone, and once there he could suck on the pap of life, gulp down the incomparable milk of wonder.
His heart beat faster and faster as Daisy’s white face came up to his own. He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star. Then he kissed her. At his lips’ touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.
Winter Dreams
You can also find it here: http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/winterd/winter.html
While reading, compare it with Gatsby.
Flannery O'connor
Print the following stories
The Life You Save May Be Your Own
http://faculty.smu.edu/nschwart/2312/lifeyousave.htm
A Good Man is Hard to Find
http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~surette/goodman.html
The Life You Save May Be Your Own
http://faculty.smu.edu/nschwart/2312/lifeyousave.htm
A Good Man is Hard to Find
http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~surette/goodman.html
While reading it, look for archetypes, allusions, and reoccurring images.
Look for other striking literary devices as well. Lastly, note elements of style of this amazing southern author.
You will get points for your notes ON your print out, so every paragraph should be laced with them.
Turning in your papers
You will turn in a hard copy (in case technology fails me and keeps me from being able to use my iPad to grade your papers).
Drop it in my file on the H drive after you've converted it to a PDF.
I would suggest you save your paper on Google Docs or on a flash drive before coming to school.
To convert a word document to a PDF, follow the steps below (these instructions are for mac computers):
- Open the document
- Click FILE
- Click PRINT
- Click SAVE AS PDF (bottom-left corner)
- RENAME IT AS FOLLOWS: PERIOD Last First NAME TOPIC (For example: 1st Davis Ben Gatsby OR 7th Davis Ben Twilight)
- Save it to the HDrive dropbox under my name
Intro/Conclusion
Below you will find an example of an intro and a conclusion. These are on two different topics, but I assume that the structure will give you some direction.
Intro
Archetypes appear in every piece of literature. They equip readers with a filter through which they can pass texts for better understanding. The more experience a one has with stories, the better equipped he/she is to analyze characters in novels. In Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby, the incorporation of fairytale archetypes give the reader a pretext for better understanding why Gatsby's dream must fail.
Conclusion
Fitzgearald teaches the reader that the American dream a consuming disease. There is never an end to the dream because the dreamer always wants to add to it. Gatsby's dream was not to have Daisy. His original grail was to be wealthy; she was the embodiment of that wealth. He assumed he could win her over with shiny luxuries, but he did not realize that he (the Cinderella figure) was the one calling Daisy (the Prince figure) down from her royal palace to his peasant's home. No matter how much he decked out his house in purple velvet or Victorian furniture, he still remained a lower class citizen. He planned every moment around his grail. Every party, every bulb in his house, and every stitch on his clothing was all for Daisy. This selfish trap to lure her in to had her to his collection was just a consuming dream, and to this dream he was faithful to the end.
Bonus points
Finish your essay and email it to me by Saturday at 11 p.m. That will get you 4 bonus points on you essay. NOTE: That is almost half of a letter grade.
Text your friends to spread the word.
Text your friends to spread the word.
Good, Outline! Good boy! Sit! Sit, Outline! Roll over!
Here are some examples of outlines that need a bath.The RED writing is the original. The one following the red one is mine.
Topic: Gatsby as a Christ Figure
I.A. Platonic Conception (page 98)
B. About my Father's Business (page 98)
C. The mattress (page 161)
II.A. Hard rock on the wet marshes (page 2)
B. Gatsby's book (page 173)
III. A. Communion (Page 11)
B. Eckleberg (page 160)
IV. A. The valley of ashes (page 23)
B. No one came to Gatsby's funeral (page 164)
CRITIQUE:
This outline has no main points. All it has are concrete details. Therefore, we do not know what point is trying to be made. For all we know, this is a dog that has a tail growing out of its head. That would look like a unicorn dog, and those do not exist, as opposed to real unicorns which...well, perhaps the comparison is lost...but the point is that the reader of the outline cannot make heads or tails of what the writer is planning for the essay. So how is the reader going to be able to follow the writing?
Below you will find a better way to organize it.
I. Gatsby's Conception
a. platonic conception
i. platonic can mean without intimacy
ii. platonic can mean ideal
iii. Gatsby was both. He rejected his parents and recreated himself "just the way a 17 year old boy would. And to that conception he was fateful to the end" (98).
b. Contrast this with what Christ's conception
i. One is man made; one is God made.
ii. One rejected his father; the other embraced him.
II. Gatsby's Youth
a. He was about his father's business.
i. his father's business is of a "vast vulgar and meretricious beauty" (98).
ii. explain why he did everything he did (for himself...to fulfill the dream of having Daisy)
b. Contrast that with what Christ was in the service of.
Conclusion: (Note: this is not a paragraph, I am just connecting some dots for you.)
Wealth, in the novel, causes people's hearts to decay. They become cold toward those below them. Gatsby was so focused on his grail that he became consumed by it. Every decision he made served to fulfill that dream. Fitzgerald is trying to emphasize the futility of the American dream.
QUESTIONS FOR YOU?
1. HOW IS THE STRUCTURE OF MY OUTLINE DIFFERENT FROM THE OTHER ONE?
2. WHAT DO ALL THE SUB-TOPICS HAVE IN COMMON? IN OTHER WORDS, WHO DO ALL OF THE As DEAL WITH? WHAT DO ALL OF THE Bs FOCUS ON?
3. DO THE SUBTOPICS RELATE TO THE MAJOR TOPICS (BY THE ROMAN NUMERALS)?
Changing size of iFrames
#5 Post the rest of your body paragraphs.
Post the rest of your body paragraphs in a post titled #5.
Be sure you include page numbers and have strong intro/concluding sentences.
Be sure you include page numbers and have strong intro/concluding sentences.
#4 OUTLINE
You need to post an outline of the concrete details you plan to use in outline form (as seen in post #3 below). HOWEVER, unlike the example below, add an explanation of the significance of your CDs as well. In other words, write out your commentary for EACH concrete detail.
Due 10/29
Due 10/29
#3 First Body Paragraph
Post your first body paragraph.
Remember that your introductory sentence must establish the topic of your paragraph. The concluding sentence must wrap it all up and tie your paragraph back to your thesis.
DUE10/28
THIS EXAMPLE SERVES AS AN EXAMPLE OF THE STRUCTURE OF YOUR PARAGRAPH.
Thesis: The colors white, yellow, and green, represent the materialistic values that lead to corruption
I. White
A. Wedding Cake Ceiling (p. 12)
B. Gatsby’s suit (p. 89)
C. Daisy’s name
II. Yellow
A. Daisy’s name
B. Cocktail Music (p. 44)
C. Gatsby’s car (p. 68)
II. Green
A. Gatsby’s car (p. 68)
B. Green breast of land (p. 189)
C. Light on Daisy’s dock (p.25-26)
First Body Paragraph
TS—One materialistic color, the color white, indicates emptiness as it relates to money in their lives.
CD—For example, when Nick visits Daisy for the first time, he sees the “frosted wedding cake of the ceiling” and windows “gleaming white” (12).
CM—(This shows that) Their mansion with its fancy windows and ceiling reveals the colorlessness of their marriage and the shallowness of their hearts.
CD—In addition, when Gatsby comes to meet Daisy at Nick’s house for the first time in five years, he wears an all-white flannel suit.
CM—(This shows that) The relationship between the two lovers has no basis because of Gatsby’s false wealth and identity.
There is more to write for this paragraph, but we will work on that in class. What I want you to take from this is the structure of the paragraph.
Remember that your introductory sentence must establish the topic of your paragraph. The concluding sentence must wrap it all up and tie your paragraph back to your thesis.
DUE10/28
THIS EXAMPLE SERVES AS AN EXAMPLE OF THE STRUCTURE OF YOUR PARAGRAPH.
Thesis: The colors white, yellow, and green, represent the materialistic values that lead to corruption
I. White
A. Wedding Cake Ceiling (p. 12)
B. Gatsby’s suit (p. 89)
C. Daisy’s name
II. Yellow
A. Daisy’s name
B. Cocktail Music (p. 44)
C. Gatsby’s car (p. 68)
II. Green
A. Gatsby’s car (p. 68)
B. Green breast of land (p. 189)
C. Light on Daisy’s dock (p.25-26)
First Body Paragraph
TS—One materialistic color, the color white, indicates emptiness as it relates to money in their lives.
CD—For example, when Nick visits Daisy for the first time, he sees the “frosted wedding cake of the ceiling” and windows “gleaming white” (12).
CM—(This shows that) Their mansion with its fancy windows and ceiling reveals the colorlessness of their marriage and the shallowness of their hearts.
CD—In addition, when Gatsby comes to meet Daisy at Nick’s house for the first time in five years, he wears an all-white flannel suit.
CM—(This shows that) The relationship between the two lovers has no basis because of Gatsby’s false wealth and identity.
There is more to write for this paragraph, but we will work on that in class. What I want you to take from this is the structure of the paragraph.
#2 Your Archetype
Post your archetype ALONG WITH the evidence (with page numbers) you collected from The Great Gatsby.
DUE 10/26
DUE 10/26
Bonus Blog
For 10 bonus points. (Bonus points will be few and far between this 9 weeks, so get them while they're hot.) DUE 10/26
Directions:
(Remember, this is creative writing.)
1. Read the following passage from The Great Gatsby (151 or read below).
2. Rewrite this passage in today's terms. You wouldn't have orchestras at one of your parties (I don't think). So make it fit your generation.
3. Make it as amazing of a passage as Fitzgerald did here.
4. Your character should be your age. They should mimic the behavior/lifestyle (rich) as shown below.
5. Be school appropriate and have fun with it. FEEL FREE TO COVER MORE OF THE TEXT THAN IS GIVEN BELOW.
Bonus points will be awarded based on the degree to which you mimic Fitzgerald's writing while presenting a character who is your age/lifestyle.
Directions:
(Remember, this is creative writing.)
1. Read the following passage from The Great Gatsby (151 or read below).
2. Rewrite this passage in today's terms. You wouldn't have orchestras at one of your parties (I don't think). So make it fit your generation.
3. Make it as amazing of a passage as Fitzgerald did here.
4. Your character should be your age. They should mimic the behavior/lifestyle (rich) as shown below.
5. Be school appropriate and have fun with it. FEEL FREE TO COVER MORE OF THE TEXT THAN IS GIVEN BELOW.
Bonus points will be awarded based on the degree to which you mimic Fitzgerald's writing while presenting a character who is your age/lifestyle.
For Daisy was young and her artificial world was redolent of orchids and pleasant, cheerful snobbery and orchestras which set the rhythm of the year, summing up the sadness and suggestiveness of life in new tunes. All night the saxophones wailed the hopeless comment of the BEALE STREET BLUES. while a hundred pairs of golden and silver slippers shuffled the shining dust. At the gray tea hour there were always rooms that throbbed incessantly with this low, sweet fever, while fresh faces drifted here and there like rose petals blown by the sad horns around the floor.
Through this twilight universe Daisy began to move again with the season; suddenly she was again keeping half a dozen dates a day with half a dozen men, and drowsing asleep at dawn with the beads and chiffon of an evening dress tangled among dying orchids on the floor beside her bed. And all the time something within her was crying for a decision. She wanted her life shaped now, immediately — and the decision must be made by some force — of love, of money, of unquestionable practicality — that was close at hand.
DUE 10/26#1 Dust in Gatsby
Respond to the following on YOUR blog:
Dust in The Great Gatsby
1. P 2 Foul dust in the wake of his dreams
2. P 26 Dust on Wilson
3. P 66 Sawdust of Gatsby’s statements
4. P 151 Dust in the house of Daisy’s youth
5. P 116 Dust from Daisy falls on daughter
6. P 137 Myrtle’s blood mixes with dust
7. P 148 Dust in Gatsby’s house
What do these uses of dust have in common? How do they differ? Categorize them any way you wish and in as many ways you can.
Suggestions:
Make notes about the character’s state when the passage occurs
Record the status on his/her dream as well.
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