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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. 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 ...

Here is the link to my slide show: https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dc5hmxp4_367cgcn8pdp

Winter Dreams is on page 742 of your textbook. You can also find it here: http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/winterd/winter.html While reading, compare it with Gatsby.

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 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.

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 OR you can share it with me via GOOGLE DOCS

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 cal...

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.

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...

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Post the rest of your body paragraphs in a post titled #5. Be sure you include page numbers and have strong intro/concluding sentences.

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

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...

Post your archetype ALONG WITH the evidence (with page numbers) you collected from The Great Gatsby . DUE 10/26

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. 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 sugges...

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.