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English 3

English 3. 10.22 notes. 10.22 Objectives. Demonstrate an ability to analyze texts for theme, diction, tone and historical perspective (mid-term review and Gatsby intro You should’ve turned a copy of the 1 st 3 pages of your paper into me and your mentor.

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English 3

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  1. English 3 10.22 notes

  2. 10.22 Objectives • Demonstrate an ability to analyze texts for theme, diction, tone and historical perspective (mid-term review and Gatsby intro • You should’ve turned a copy of the 1st 3 pages of your paper into me and your mentor. • Scheduled a library day for Wednesday. Slave narratives due at the end of class. • HW due: Lincoln worksheet from previous day • Remember: No vocab. this week.

  3. 10.22 • From “Civil Disobedience” by Henry Thoreau. • What does the phrase “civil disobedience” mean? • What group was Thoreau part of? What kind of things did they believe? • What is Thoreau implying when he says they “treated him as if [he] were mere flesh and blood and bones”? • What diction (word choices) does Thoreau use that shows his contempt (hatred) for the authority figures who locked him up?

  4. 10.22 Warm-up • Gatsby discussion. • Find a passage that characterizes the narrator, Nick Carraway (page 1) • Find a passage that characterizes Gatsby (page 2) • Find a passage that characterizes Tom (page 6) • Find a passage that characterizes Daisy (page 8)

  5. Gatsby • Nick Carraway -  The novel’s narrator, Nick is a young man from Minnesota • Fought in WW1, goes to New York City to learn the bond business. • Honest, tolerant, and inclined to reserve judgment, Nick often serves as a confidant for those with troubling secrets. • Moves to West Egg, home to the newly rich. • Nick quickly befriends his neighbor, the mysterious Jay Gatsby. • Daisy Buchanan’s cousin, he aides in the romance between her and Gatsby.

  6. Jay Gatsby -  The title character and protagonist of the novel • Gatsby is wealthy, lives in a Gothic mansion in West Egg. • Throws big parties every Saturday night, but no one knows where he comes from, what he does, or how he made his fortune. • Nick learns that Gatsby was born James Gatz on a farm in North Dakota • Nick also learns that Gatsby made his fortune through criminal activity, as he was willing to do anything to gain the social position he thought necessary to win Daisy.

  7. Daisy Buchanan -  Nick’s cousin, and the woman Gatsby loves. • As a young woman in Louisville before the war, Daisy was courted by a number of officers, including Gatsby. • Daisy harbors a deep need to be loved, and when a wealthy, powerful young man named Tom Buchanan asked her to marry him, Daisy decided not to wait for Gatsby after all. • Daisy lives with Tom across from Gatsby in the fashionable East Egg district of Long Island. • She behaves superficially to hide her pain at her husband’s constant infidelity.

  8. Tom • Tom Buchanan -  Daisy’s immensely wealthy husband, • once a member of Nick’s social club at Yale. • Tom is an arrogant, hypocritical bully. • His social attitudes are laced with racism and sexism. • He has no moral qualms about his own extramarital affair with Myrtle, but when he begins to suspect Daisy and Gatsby of having an affair, he becomes outraged and forces a confrontation.

  9. Jordan • Jordan Baker -  Daisy’s friend • Nick becomes romantically involved during the course of the novel. • A pro golfer, Jordan represents the “new women” of the 1920s—cynical, boyish, and self-centered. • Jordan is beautiful, but also dishonest • She cheated in order to win her first golf tournament.

  10. Myrtle • Myrtle Wilson -  Tom’s lover • husband George owns a run-down garage in the valley of ashes. • Myrtle desperately looks for a way to improve her situation. • Tom treats her as a mere object.

  11. George • George Wilson -  Myrtle’s husband • George loves and idealizes Myrtle • George is comparable to Gatsby in that both are dreamers and both are ruined by their unrequited love for women who love Tom.

  12. 10.22 close • Due tomorrow: Your slave narrative slides. • Print six slides per page. Don’t know how to do that? Let me show you. • The class that isn’t taking the midterm on the flippy floppy days will be presenting their projects.

  13. 10.23 Objectives • Analyze a text for historical significance. • Summarize a text. • Understand key passages of a text. • All that is slave narrative stuff!

  14. 10.23 Warm-up • Let’s review the Lincoln stuff before we go the library!

  15. 10.24/10.25 objectives • Analyze texts for theme, diction, historical significance. • Your mid-term! • You are responsible for everything from Early American literature (Puritans, revolution stuff) to Romanticism (including transcendentalism, Fireside Poets and gothics) to Realism (Whitman, Dickinson, slave narratives and Lincoln) • Good luck!

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