Monday, February 28, 2011Good 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! If you have not turned in your persuasive paper,

you are currently failing English 11. You must get me your paper ASAP.

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.

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.

I am returning a few papers that are incomplete for some reason. Please get them back to me ASAP.

Please turn to the appropriate page and continue reading.Ch. 4. – pp. 65 – 86Read 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

“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 supper-boxes….Sitting down behind many layers of glass in a sort of green leather conservatory we started to town.”

The Great Gatsby – Chapter 4

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

“ ‘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

Members of the Chicago White Sox intentionally lost the 1919 World Series to win money from gamblers.

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