1. Read this extract from ‘The Great Gatsby’

2. There was music from my neighbour's house through the summer nights
There was music from my neighbour's house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motor-boats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam. On week-ends his Rolls-Royce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city between nine in the morning and long past midnight, while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains. And on Mondays eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled all day with mops and scrubbing-brushes and hammers and garden-shears, repairing the ravages of the night before.

3. Every Friday five crates of oranges and lemons arrived from a fruiterer in New York — every Monday these same oranges and lemons left his back door in a pyramid of pulpless halves. There was a machine in the kitchen which could extract the juice of two hundred oranges in half an hour if a little button was pressed two hundred times by a butler’s thumb. At least once a fortnight a corps of caterers came down with several hundred feet of canvas and enough coloured lights to make a Christmas tree of Gatsby’s enormous garden. On buffet tables, garnished with glistening hors-d’oeuvre, spiced baked hams crowded against salads of harlequin designs and pastry pigs and turkeys bewitched to a dark gold. In the main hall a bar with a real brass rail was set up, and stocked with gins and liquors and with cordials so long forgotten that most of his female guests were too young to know one from another.

4. Question 1 tests your skills of retrieval
Answer the following question in your books:
Read again, the first part of the source (paragraph 1)
Q1 List four things from this part of the source about the parties at Gatsby’s house.

5. Mark Scheme – what does each bullet point mean
Mark Scheme – what does each bullet point mean? How many marks would you give your response?
Give 1 mark for each point about the parties at Gatsby’s House:
responses must be drawn from paragraph 1 of the source
responses must be true statements from the extract
responses must relate to what the parties are like.
candidate may quote OR paraphrase – each is acceptable
a paraphrased response covering more than one point should be credited for each point made.

6. Question 2 (Language) – asks you to explore the effects of language – will look like this:
How does the writer use language to describe the excitement of Gatsby’s parties?
You could include the writer’s choice of:
words and phrases
language features and techniques
sentence forms.
[8 marks]

7. Rumours are spreading about Gatsby’s parties; what 4 reasons do you hear about why it’s so exciting?
Use resource (Language resource- Reason Evidence Analysis) – blown up to A3 they have to do 3 but migt stretch to 4th
These reasons will be the points for your answer to Question 2.

8. Points and explanations need to be personal to the text, you need language to make it sound magical!
Capturing Learning: Gatsby’s parties are magical! (what other words can you think of to describe them)
Vibrant
Magical
Enchanting

9. Now: Hunt for quotes! Find one quote for each reason
- Write it down on your sheet
-be ready to justify your choice.
(how does it prove your point?
What is interesting/effective about the writer’s language choices?)

10. Extract From Mark Scheme
Level 4
Uses sophisticated subject terminology accurately
Level 3
Uses subject terminology accurately
Level 2
Uses some subject terminology, not always appropriately
Level 1
Simple mention of subject terminology
Take your laminated Glossary and label each of your quotes with at least one term.

11. Explosion!!!!! Can I analyse language techniques?
Task: Now choose 2 quotations which you think most effectively use language to create a tense atmosphere.
You have 6 minutes to explode these in your books to generate some ideas (you can work with your partner on this).
Creates a dense and heavy atmosphere.
Try to:
Identify the technique
Explain the effect of the technique
Explain how this ……………
Use key words/phrases to develop your analysis
The image of the ‘misty evening’
‘eight o'clock of a misty evening in November.’
Heightens the feeling of anticipation as the character does not know what is out there.
Challenge: Can you make links between your two quotations?
The word ‘misty’ also has connotations of something both gloomy and ghost-like, giving the mood an ominous and supernatural undertone.

12. Plenary Share your best idea with the class…
On a post-it - what are your top tips for excellent language analysis?