1. Journal 18 Grab the two articles from the front table.
Read the two articles “NFL To Add Second Team In Jacksonville” & “NFL Announces Jacksonville Jaguars To Play 16 Games In London Next Season”
Which article do you think is fact? Which article do you think is fake? Explain your reasoning with direct quotes from the text.

2. Vocabulary
Satire
Hyperbole

3. Lesson Notes Quote What is it? Impact on text
Citing the overwhelming success of the Jacksonville Jaguars, NFL officials unveiled plans Tuesday to add a second franchise in Jacksonville by the 2017 season.
Sarcasm
The author sets a tone of sarcasm that lets the reader know they are making fun of the success of the Jaguars. I know this statement is false because the Jags are #terrible.
league commissioner Roger Goodell…believes the market in Jacksonville can easily sustain one, if not two or three additional NFL teams.
From the two articles, identify quotes from the articles that show satirical elements: sarcasm, irony, hyperbole
As a group, find one more from “NFL To Add Second Team In Jacksonville”
Two from “NFL Announces Jacksonville Jaguars To Play 16 Games In London Next Season”.
Hyperbole
The author is using hyperbole to exaggerate the idea the possibility that the city of Jacksonville can’t sustain one, let a lone two or three NFL teams. This further impact the mocking tone of the text, and the idea that the Jags are #terrible.

4. Student Workbook Quote What is it? Sarcasm, Irony, Hyperbole
How does it impact the text?
I’m inclined to reserve all judgements, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.
Verbal Irony
Fitzgerald uses verbal irony to portray the narrator as sarcastic individual which will result in instances of hidden and double meanings in the text. Such as this line of verbal irony states that due to the narrator with holding judgements of people and experiences, he was a “victim of not a few veteran bores”, meaning he didn’t suffer a few boring experiences, but that it could’ve been multiple experiences.
As a group continue to read Ch 2, identify 5 more instances of satire: Sarcasm, Irony (verbal, situational, dramatic), Hyperbole. Complete the chart.

5. Home Learning Feign Supercilious Conscientious Incredulous Reciprocal
Finish reading Ch 1 and respond to the following questions, restating the prompt and using textual evidence. Not doing so will result in points off.
Define these Words
Feign
Supercilious
Conscientious
Incredulous
Reciprocal
Complacent
Intimation
1.Notice how many times Fitzgerald uses the words hope, or dream. Why does he do this?
2.Nick starts the novel by relaying his father's advice "Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had." List Nick's advantages.
3.Pay attention to time. What is the day and year during the first scene at Daisy's house?
4.Describe Nick. What facts do you know about him, and what do you infer about him? What kind of a narrator do you think he will be?
5.What image does the author use to describe Jordan Baker? What does it mean?
6.How does Nick react to Jordan?
7.What does Tom's behavior reveal about his character?

6. Journal 19
Order the following statements on a scale, 1(you strongly agree), 2(you kinda agree), 3(you strongly disagree):
Love is not a decision
Clothes make the man
Our desires shift with our eyes

7. Let’s Review
The use of humor, exaggeration, and parodies to make fun of ideas, people, politics etc. to show it’s stupidity or absurdity.
Satire is ________________________________________________
The SATIRICAL ELEMENTS we’ve covered so far include ________________, _____________, & ______________
Sarcasm
Irony
Hyperbole
The use of language to mock or ridicule
Sarcasm is _____________________________
Hyperbole is _______________.
an exaggeration

8. Let’s Review
Irony breaks down into how many types? ____________ 3
_______________ irony, which is when ___________________________,
____________, which is _________________ and _______________ which is ___________________________________.
Verbal
Something is said but means something else
Situational
An unexpected outcome
Dramatic
The audience knows more than the characters

9. Student Workbook Quote What is it? Sarcasm, Irony, Hyperbole
How does it impact the text?
I’m inclined to reserve all judgements, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.
Verbal Irony
Fitzgerald uses verbal irony to portray the narrator as sarcastic individual which will result in instances of hidden and double meanings in the text. Such as this line of verbal irony states that due to the narrator with holding judgements of people and experiences, he was a “victim of not a few veteran bores”, meaning he didn’t suffer a few boring experiences, but that it could’ve been multiple experiences.
As a group continue to read Ch 2, identify 5 more instances of satire: Sarcasm, Irony (verbal, situational, dramatic), Hyperbole. Complete the chart.

10. Student Workbook
Ch 2 – Guided questions: Complete these as two column notes in the Student Workbook section. You must restate the prompt and use evidence from the text to support your responses. Not doing so will cause point deductions.
Describe the "valley of ashes." What does it look like and what does it represent?
Describe Mr. Wilson and Myrtle. Do they seem to fit into the setting of the “valley of the ashes”?
What more have you learned about Nick in this chapter? Is he similar or different than the people he spends his time with?
Describe the violent act Tom committed against Myrtle. What does this reveal about him?

11. Journal 20
Describe a party so LIT, everyone would want to be there. What’s happening? Who’s there? Etc.

12. The Great Gatsby Irony quiz
Quote
What is it? Sarcasm, Irony, Hyperbole
How does it impact the text?
She smiled slowly and walking through her husband as if he were a ghost shook hands with Tom, looking him flush in the eye. Then she wet her lips and without turning around spoke to her husband in a soft, coarse voice: ‘Get some chairs, why don’t you, so somebody can sit
down.’
‘I married him because I thought he was a gentleman,’ she said finally. ‘I thought he knew something about breeding,but he wasn’t fit to lick my shoe.’
As a group continue to read Ch 2, identify 5 more instances of satire: Sarcasm, Irony (verbal, situational, dramatic), Hyperbole. Complete the chart.

13. Student Workbook
Ch 3 – Guided questions: Complete these as two column notes in the Student Workbook section. You must restate the prompt and use evidence from the text to support your responses. Not doing so will cause point deductions.
Why does Nick go to Gatsby’s party? How is his reason different from all the other guests?
Compare and Contrast Myrtle’s party in Ch 2 to Gatsby’s in Ch 3. What do you think Fitzgerald is trying to convey by putting the two party scenes side by side.
How does hearing about Gatsby through the point of view of his guests impact the reader’s view of Gatsby and his guests?