2. My hair looks like a butt.
2.23/ Fri/Mon
warm-up: Look at a few examples from the JFK revisions
activity 1: tone passage (end of book)
activity 2: seminar format
activity 3: seminaring!
close: seminar close
HW DUE: 7-9 tone sheet (hang on to this)
HW Tonight: study for test!
Upcoming:
2.27: ACT day
2.28 (“B” day)/3.1 (“A” day): Diction, syntax, tone test
3.2/3.5: Rhetorical analysis FRQ
3.6/3.7: Grammar 5 due
3.16/3.19: vocab. 8 due
3.28: Last day of Q3
: Spring break
4.10/4.11: Grammar due
4.18/4.19: vocab. 9 due
4.20/4.23: begin “drill and kill” unit / intro Slaughterhouse-Five (have ch. 1 read)
4.24 (“B”)/4.27 (“A”): rhetorical analysis FRQ
4.25 (“A”)/4.26 (“B”): Rhetoric unit test
5.16: AP Lang test
My hair looks like a butt.

3. 2.23/2.26 warm-up: returning to JFK
I want to very briefly look at two essays and show you what I see in them, show you how I score them.

4. 2.23/2.26 activity: Tone
Most of the big shore places were closed now and there were hardly any lights except the shadowy, moving glow of a ferryboat across the Sound. And as the moon rose higher the inessential houses began to melt away until gradually I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors' eyes--a fresh, green breast of the new world. Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby's house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.
What is Fitz’s attitude toward dreams here, toward visions? Toward ambition?
Much of the language here suggests temporary-ness. Why is that important?
Enchanted is the key word in the novel. Explain.
Begin a paragraph of analysis with the following topic sentence: “Dreams are transient.”

5. 2.23/2.26 activity: seminar Only two options.
Full participation: Leads conversation, takes notes, responds to peers, answers questions, understands novel, can find passages to direct peers to in novel.
Turning in:
7-9 tone sheet
Warm-up paragraph
Written answers to three of the seminar questions (you will have ten minutes before we begin the seminar to review these questions)
No participation: You complete a major works data sheet for the novel (I’ll show you what that looks like).
7-9 tone sheet
Warm-up paragraph
mini-MWDS

6. 2.23/2.26 activity: Gatsby seminar
While drafting out the novel, Fitz told his editor that he wanted to create “something new— something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned.” In what ways does the novel match Fitz’s vision?
A critical review of the novel at the time of its publication noted that the “story is obviously unimportant” and that Fitz seemed uninterested in “getting under the skins of [his characters].” Is this an apt description? How so?
Bruccoli notes (in another essay) that the strongest emotion in Gatsby is regret. It’s a regret tied to “depleted emotional capacity.” How is this exemplified in the novel? In what ways does it tie into major thematic elements of the novel?
According to Bruccoli, there are at leas 450 time-related words in the novel, including blatant symbolism like Gatsby breaking Nick’s clock when he and Daisy reunite. Explain how time functions in the novel and why it’s an important concept to understanding major thematic elements.
Is there anything epic or grand about The Great Gatsby? Explain.
In what way(s) is Daisy “for sale”? Why doesn’t Gatsby have the right currency to “purchase” her?
Is Nick the central figure? Yes, he tells the story, but is the story really about him?
Is Gatsby great or is he a failure?
What is Fitz’s attitude toward Nick? Does he want us to like Nick? In what ways are we like Nick?
What is Fitz’s attitude toward Gatsby? Does he want us to like Gatsby? In what ways are we like Gatsby?

7. CLOSE and HW 2.23/2.26 Test format: 51-63: trope/scheme Identification
64-74: AP MC section
75-83: 19th century American essay analysis
84-92: 20th century American essay analysis
93-100: 20th century American political speech analysis
1 hilarious bonus question
Terms to know:
All the schemes (full list online)
All the tropes
Loose/cumulative sentence, periodic sentence, balanced sentence
Interrogative, imperative, declarative, exclamatory sentence.
Grounds (anecdotal, personal example, current event, historical data, expert opinion, quantitative data)
Diction (specific/general; abstract/concrete)
Tone