1.Pick up handouts (2) 2.Vocab Unit 4: Words introduction 3.Vocab Activity for BELLWORK:

2 Vocab Exercise—words 9-12 Word & Part of speech Picture Sentence EX: Commiserate (v) It was nice to have my best friend commiserate with me on that awful day.

3 Thursday, November 6 th What am I learning today? ELACC11-12L1-6: Demonstrate the correct use of vocabulary and grammar in my writing. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher- led) with diverse partners on grades topics, texts, and issues, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI By the end of grade 11, read and comprehend literary nonfiction in the grades 11-CCR text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI Determine two or more central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to provide a complex analysis; provide an objective summary of the text. What am I going to do today? Bellwork: vocab intro to Unit 4 (words 11-12) Examining a passage with a CEI GROUPS Begin CEI Presentations Watch 1974 film up to chapter 7 CHAPTERS 4-6 READING QUIZ TOMORROW—Study and catch up with journals. What will I do to show I learned it? Continued analysis of characters, themes, symbols, etc. in Gatsby Practice creating CEI paragraphs Create analytical journal entry for each chapter Literary analysis paper on The Great Gatsby

4 Constructed Response Question MODEL : Read the following passage, then examine the role of the phrase “ghostly heart” in Fitzgerald’s characterization of Gatsby. As I went to say goodbye I saw the expression of bewilderment had come back into Gatsby’s face, as though a faint doubt had occurred to him as to the quality of his present happiness. Almost five years! There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams—not through her own fault but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart. (Fitzgerald 101) C. (claim) In the preceding passage, Fitzgerald characterizes Gatsby as a man who places great emphasis on Daisy’s presence in his past through the phrase “ghostly heart.” E. (evidence) Fitzgerald makes it clear that Daisy’s current personality is conflicting with Gatsby’s aggrandized vision of her: “the expression of bewilderment had come back into Gatsby’s face, as though a faint doubt had occurred to him as to the quality of his present happiness” (Fitzgerald 101). I. (interpretation) Gatsby shows doubt because it is impossible for someone who has been placed on a pedestal to live up to overblown expectations. Gatsby’s “ghostly heart” represents his obsession with times before. As Nick notes, this tendency in Gatsby’s personality can only lead him to disappointment and pain. The “heart” is the symbol of love, but Gatsby’s heart is filled with ghosts instead. Fitzgerald uses this metaphor to indicate that an obsession with the past instead of the present is what leads (potentially) to Gatsby’s downfall.