Tuesday, March 1, 2011 Good 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 returned a few papers yesterday that are incomplete for some reason. Please get them back to me ASAP.

The Great Gatsby Ch. 3-4 Quiz You will do fine if you’ve been paying attention! Good luck! May the Force be with you!

Please turn to the appropriate page and continue reading. Ch. 5. – pp Today Gatsby and Daisy are reunited! Pay attention to the description of the clock, Gatsby’s appearance, and Gatsby’s shirts. The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby – Chapter 5 “at two o’clock a greenhouse arrived from Gatsby’s, with innumerable receptacles to contain it.” p. 89

The Great Gatsby – Chapter 5 “An hour later the front door opened nervously and Gatsby in a white flannel suit, silver shirt and gold colored tie hurried in.” p. 89

The Great Gatsby – Chapter 5 “Daisy’s face, tipped sideways beneath a three- cornered hat, looked out at me with a bright ecstatic smile. ‘Is this absolutely where you live, dearest one?’ The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain.” p. 90

“Gatsby, his hands still in his pockets, was reclining against the mantelpiece in a strained counterfeit of ease, even of boredom and from this position his distraught eyes stared down at Daisy who was sitting frightened but graceful on the edge of a stiff chair.” p. 91 The Great Gatsby – Chapter 5

“ ‘We’ve met before, ‘ muttered Gatsby. His eyes glanced momentarily at me and his lips parted with an abortive attempt at a laugh. Luckily, the clock took this moment to tilt dangerously at the pressure of his head, whereupon he turned and caught it with trembling fingers…” p. 91

The Great Gatsby – Chapter 5 “They were sitting at either end of the couch looking at each other as if some question had been asked or was in the air…. Daisy’s face was smeared with tears…. But there was a change in Gatsby that was simply confounding. He literally glowed; without a word or gesture of exultation a new well-being radiated from him and filled the little room.” p. 94

The Great Gatsby – Chapter 5 “He hadn’t once ceased looking at Daisy and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes…” p

The Great Gatsby – Chapter 5 “he (Gatsby) had passed visibly through two states and was entering upon a third. After his embarrassment and his unreasoning joy he was consumed by wonder at her presence. He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end…at an inconceivable pitch of intensity. Now, in reaction, he was running down like an overwound clock.” p. 97

The Great Gatsby – Chapter 5 “…he opened for us two hulking patent cabinets…and his shirts piled like bricks in stacks a dozen high….He took out the piles of shirts and began throwing them one by one before us…” p. 97

The Great Gatsby – Chapter 5 “ ‘Klipspringer plays the piano,’ said Gatsby, cutting him off. ‘Don’t you, old sport?’” … “‘I’m all out of practice, you see. I told you I couldn’t play. I’m all out of prac –’ ‘Don’t talk so much, old sport,’ commanded Gatsby. ‘Play!’” p. 100

The Great Gatsby – Chapter 5 “As I went over to say goodbye I saw that 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 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.” p. 101