English 11 Wednesday, September 28, 2016 Do Now: Take out your copy of The Great Gatsby. Turn to pg. 4. Take out your The Great Gatsby: Chapter 1 packet. Turn to your graphic organizer on Nick Carraway. We will finish up the presentations for yesterday. Be ready to add to your notes!

Nick Carraway Each row will be assigned a particular paragraph(s) from pgs. 3-4. As a group, come up with at least TWO direct quotes and observations you can make about Nick Carraway based on the information in the assigned paragraph(s). Row #1: pg. 3 – paragraph 2 (“I never saw this great-uncle…in the spring of twenty-two.”) Row #2: pg. 3-4 – paragraph 3 (“The practice thing was…over the electric stove.”) Row #3: pg. 4 – paragraph 1-4 (“It was lonely for a day…beginning over again with the summer.”) Row #4: pg. 4 – paragraph 5 (“There was so much to read…looked at from a single window, after all.”)

West Egg & East Egg Look back at pgs. 5-6 and your graphic organizer. Answer the following question in the margin of your packet: Based on the evidence you gathered from the text, which Egg is more prominent? Explain.

The Gatsby Mansion *Both houses are prominent. How do they differ? The Buchanan Colonial

“New Money” v. “Old Money” What’s the difference?

The Gatsby Mansion. How does the discussion of new money vs The Gatsby Mansion *How does the discussion of new money vs. old money explain the model of each house? The Buchanan Colonial