Post the rest of your body paragraphs in a post titled #5.
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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