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Agenda English 1: English 3 Honors: English 3: Comparative Essay – Last Day! English 3 Honors: Gatsby – Ch. 1 (Finish) Gatsby – Study Guide Ch. 1 English 3: The Road – background info and discussion The Road – Study Guide Handout

English 1 Today is the LAST day I will give class time to work on this essay. If you need more time you may come in for office hours to finish. Please make sure that: Your document is titled: Last Name, First Name_Period # Check your word count (600) by going to “Tools” then “Word Count” Make sure you have differences and similarities beyond “he’s a zombie and Romeo’s not,” or “one takes place in the past and one takes place now.” When you have finished, please share the document with me at: MrBurnsideEnglish@gmail.com If you finish early, please find something QUIET and productive to do. Also please put your computers in the correct drawer and plug them in before leaving. The drawer number is located by where you plug in the laptop on the side of the computer.

English 3 Honors Ch. 1 – Parts 1 & 2 Recap: Nick Carraway is our narrator Nick graduated from Yale, fought in WWI, and has moved to New York to learn the bond business. He lives in West Egg in a small house next to a giant Mansion owned by a man named Gatsby whom he’s never met or seen. He goes one day to East Egg to visit his cousin Daisy and her husband Tom. Tom is an acquaintance of Nick’s from college, he is rich, athletic, good looking, and a former college football star. Nick meets a young, beautiful woman at Daisy’s house named Jordan Baker. When Jordan finds out he lives in West Egg she asks if he knows Gatsby, which gets Daisy’s attention. The four sit down for dinner and the phone rings, and as the butler goes to answer it, Daisy begins telling Nick a story about him.

Gatsby – Ch. 1 (Part 3) Pg. 14 Word Document & Audio Link: towards the top, we start on the line: “For a moment the last sunshine fell…” Word Document & Audio Link: http://esl-bits.net/Books/The_Great_Gatsby/Ch1-3/default.html Once we’ve finished: You may begin answering the Ch. 1 study guide questions from your packet. Please write answers down on YOUR OWN sheet of paper. They will be due before we take Quiz 1

English 3 The Road Study Guide Reading Schedule: Audio & Text This is yours, so you may write on it. If you lose it, I only have a few extra copies, so once I run out, it’s on you to reprint it. Answer the questions completely to receive credit for them. Reading Schedule: Week 1: First 100 pages Week 2: Next 100-ish pages Week 3: Last 100-ish pages Audio & Text I will post what pages we read EVERYDAY, here, on these PowerPoint slides and post them to our class website. So, if you’re absent, it’s on YOU to keep up with the readings. I will recap the previous day’s events, but only the major ones.

Questions for Discussion What does the title hint about the subject of the novel? A journey What are some theories about how the world could end? Nuclear War Meteor Hit Health epidemic (plague) Alien invasion Global Warming What are some conveniences that would be lost if our society drastically changed due to a post-apocalyptic event? Loss of food supply (unable to grow crops, animals die, grocery store eventually empties) Loss of electricity (difficult to stay warm, difficult to cook food) Loss of communications (no phones, internet, etc.) How would our society function after the event? No law Mass hysteria Looting Every man/woman for him/herself

Identifying Themes The End of the World (as we know it) See previous slide Struggle for Survival – HOPE AND HOPLESSNESS Physical Struggle (see previous slide) Selfishness vs. Altruism (unselfishness) Are we fundamentally selfish? YES! Man versus Nature Struggle to find shelter, food, safety Do we attempt to control nature now? YES! Man versus Self Isolation Could cause insanity Nothing but the Truth Is it more important to tell the truth or protect those you love when you know the truth will hurt them? Is it acceptable to tell a “little white lie”? Depends on the situation. How are relationships affected when one knows the other could be lying?

The Road We start tomorrow!