Warm Up

1. Summarize the end of the book. (3-5 sentences)

2. What point is Fitzgerald trying to make by killing off Gatsby?  Gatsby’s dream does not come true, but Daisy stays with Tom, what is the point of that?

3. Gatsby dreamt of Daisy, he dreamt of love.  How did he go about trying to achieve his dream?  What does this aspect of the plot say about materialism?

Materialism - noun: preoccupation with or emphasis on material objects, comforts, and considerations, with a disinterest in or a rejection of spiritual, intellectual, or cultural values.

4. Why doesn’t anyone come to Gatsby’s funeral?  How does this figure into Fitzgerald’s commentary on wealth and status?

Vocabulary list #5Quiz Friday (but these will be the only words on it!)

21. Innocuous (adj): Harmless; causing no damage

22. Placid (adj): calm, peaceful

23. Rueful (adj): feeling sorrow or regret

24. Substantiate (verb): to verify, confirm; provide evidence to support or prove something.

25. Rancorous (adj): characterized by bitterness or resentment; spiteful; hateful.

Revision Highlights

Language is powerful, but trying to prove a language’s superiority over another is not an appropriate ambition because it pushes people apart.

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By taking away a person’s language, people in power dehumanize them, which takes away their ability to communicate, their culture, and it diminishes their chances of being successful.

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Taking away someone’s language, culture, and ability to express themselves is the same as stripping away a person’s freedom.

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Assimilation is not the major issue in our current society nor in societies past; forced assimilation is what rips people’s cultural identity to shreds and leaves people feeling lost both mentally and spiritually.

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America should not follow in the footsteps of predecessors and force people to speak a language. Instead we should celebrate diversity and welcome all ethnicities and languages, and let anyone speak the language they want and have all the rights of an English-speaking American.

Revision Highlights

If one does not bend to the dominant culture’s ways, defiant against the colonization of their personal identity, the minority faces bullying, alienation from their peers, and a constant destruction of their self-worth at the hands of the dominating culture’s teachers and peers alike.

Thesis Statement

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– Opinion/arguable

– Rationale

Thesis Statement

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– Rationale

Through Gatsby’s self-reinvention and obscene wealth that ends in disaster, the American Dream as Gatsby sees it is shown as an illusion; however desperately one reaches for the green light, it is forever out of reach.

Thesis Statement

– Topic

– Opinion/arguable

– Rationale

Through Gatsby’s self-reinvention and obscene wealth that ends in disaster, the American Dream as Gatsby sees it is shown as an illusion; however desperately one reaches for the green light, it is forever out of reach.

Thesis Statement

– Topic

– Opinion/arguable

– Rationale

Through Gatsby’s self-reinvention and obscene wealth that ends in disaster, the American Dream as Gatsby sees it is shown as an illusion; however desperately one reaches for the green light, it is forever out of reach.

Thesis Statement

– Topic

– Opinion/arguable

– Rationale

Through Gatsby’s self-reinvention and obscene wealth that ends in disaster, the American Dream as Gatsby sees it is shown as an illusion; however desperately one reaches for the green light, it is forever out of reach.

Thesis Statement

– Topic

– Opinion/arguable

– Rationale

Even though Gatsby’s dream ends in disaster, he represents the hope that allows the American Dream to continue. Without this hope the United States would not generate the talent and innovation that it is still known for today.

Thesis Statement

– Topic

– Opinion/arguable

– Rationale

Even though Gatsby’s dream ends in disaster, he represents the hope that allows the American Dream to continue. Without this hope the United States would not generate the talent and innovation that it is still known for today.

Thesis Statement

– Topic

– Opinion/arguable

– Rationale

Even though Gatsby’s dream ends in disaster, he represents the hope that allows the American Dream to continue. Without this hope the United States would not generate the talent and innovation that it is still known for today.

Thesis Statement

– Topic

– Opinion/arguable

– Rationale

Even though Gatsby’s dream ends in disaster, he represents the hope that allows the American Dream to continue. Without this hope the United States would not generate the talent and innovation that it is still known for today.

Thesis Statement

– Topic

– Opinion/arguable

– Rationale

Homework

– Come up with your thesis statement and share it with me on Google Docs.

– Study vocab

– (ready to work ahead? Pick which quotes you think would work well with your essay and highlight them on your paper)