1. Put your name on it and # 1-5
Take out a half-sheet of paper for Ch 3 Quiz ALSO: open notebook to Ch3 Vocab
Everyone on time and following directions gets a bonus point just cause
Put your name on it and # 1-5

2. Chapter 3 Vocab definitions
Garnished: decorated extravagantly
Obligingly: with a willingness to serve
Chauffeur: employed driver
Spectroscopic: full of light
Vacuous: empty, thoughtless
Jauntiness: easy, stylish, sprightly manner
Malevolence: having ill will or spite toward someone
Conscientious: having a sense of duty; morally correct
Affectations: artificial behavior or speech formed for a specific group

3. Chapter 4 Vocab
Bootlegger: “He’s a bootlegger,” said the young ladies.
Guess:
Definition: someone who smuggled in liquor during prohibition illegally
Sporadic: “that comes, I suppose, … with the formless grace of our nervous, sporadic games.
Definition: irregular, scattered
Haughty: “I laughed aloud as the yolks of their eyeballs rolled toward us in haughty rivalry.”
Definition: arrogantly superior or disdainful
Succulent: “A succulent hash arrived, and Mr. Wolfsheim … began to eat with ferocious delicacy.”
Definition: tender, juicy, tasty

4. Quiz! #1-5 You can split a paper in half with someone
When done, turn in, then
#1: read Gatsby’s backstory  to page 69/73, stop at “Even Gatsby could happen, without any particular wonder.” Answer questions #1-3
#2 organize notebook so it’s ready for notebook check
#3 complete character chart

5. Answer on p. 12 of notebook (back of Ch 3 questions)
1. List all of the rumors told about Gatsby.
2. Why does Fitzgerald list all of Gatsby's party guests? (what kinds of things happen to them)?
3. Why does Gatsby tell Nick about his life? Do you believe Gatsby? Does Nick?

6. Chapter 3 Review: Plot Gatsby’s party Gatsby and Nick meet
Gatsby and Jordan talk
Nick and Jordan see each other more
Nick has to break up with a lady friend back home

7. Ch 3 Review: Meaning Owl Eyes and the library
The books are real: “This fella’s a regular Belasco. It’s a triumph. What thoroughness! What realism! Knew when to stop too—didn’t cut the pages”
He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf muttering that if one brick was removed the whole library was liable to collapse.
Owl Eyes and the car accident
Mistaken identity of the driver
Narrative bias—Nick identifies him as
“the criminal” before realizing he wasn’t
the driver
Lack of responsibility / care regarding
harm caused
Jordan and driving
Repeats theme of irresponsibility

8. Ch 4 Gatsby’s story
More rumors—bootlegger, killed a man, nephew to more German dudes, second cousin to devil
Why all the rumors? What does this say about Gatsby?
Long tangent on people who attend parties
What is happening with/to these people?
Put’s his right hand up and says, “I’ll tell you God’s truth.”
Son of rich people in mid-west, educated at Oxford, traveled Europe, war
Doubt: from San Francisco???
rushes the phrase, “educated at Oxford”
“I suspected he was pulling my leg”
“phrases were worn so threadbare that they evoked no image except that of a turbaned ‘character’”

9. Proof! Medal from Montenegro
Photograph of himself at Oxford with an Earl

10. Finish Ch 4 on audio
4. What role does Meyer Wolfsheim play in the novel? Why is there so much focus on his nose?
5. What does Jordan's story of Daisy's marriage reveal about Daisy?
6. Why did Gatsby want Daisy to see his house?
7. Nick says, "There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired." What does Nick mean? How does each character in the novel fit into this schema?
8. How does this chapter continue the motif of people projecting an artificial outward appearance for the sake of others? Identify at least two concrete examples.