1. Bell Ringer 3/5
Please get out your Great Gatsby Characterization Packet so that we can finish our discussion.
Please answer the following question with someone sitting near you:
What are direct and indirect characterization?
Be ready to discuss at the beginning of class.
1, 4

2. Bell Ringer 3/5
Please get out your Ch. 1 Discussion Questions so that we can finish going over them.
Answer the following question with a partner:
What kind of people are the Buchanans? Would you want to be friends with them?
Be ready to discuss when class begins. 2

3. Bell Ringer 3/5
Please get out yesterday’s handout (The Social Register – Direct vs. Indirect Characterization).
You have 5-10 minutes (depending on how much time you need) to finish this activity. 3

4. Bell Ringer 3/5
Please get a copy of The Great Gatsby and turn to pg. 30.
Answer the following question with someone sitting near you:
What has happened so far in chapter 2? 7

5. Bell Ringer 3/5
Please get out yesterday’s handout (The Social Register – Direct and Indirect Characterization).
Answer the following question with a partner:
What are direct and indirect characterization?
Be ready to discuss when class begins. 9

6. English III
EQ: How do F. Scott Fitzgerald’s choices regarding how to build his characters advance the plot and develop the themes of The Great Gatsby?
Agenda
Bell Ringer (Reading Quiz)
Agenda/EQ
Reading Ch. 1
Direct vs. Indirect Characterization
Finishing Ch. 2
Analyzing Ch. 1: Handout 15 The Social Register
Analyzing Ch. 2: Handout 7

7. Vocabulary Notes
Direct Characterization – the narrator or another character makes direct statements describing appearance and/or personality.
Indirect Characterization – the narrator presents dialogue or describes action, and readers make deductions about a character.

8. Bell Ringer 3/5
Please get out your in-class writing from Monday and turn it in if you haven’t done so already.
Please answer the following question with a partner:
What should we be listening for as we read these stories in class?

9. Creative Writing
How do authors use pace and sequence to build a vivid, engaging, coherent story that works towards a particular tone and outcome?
Agenda
Bell Ringer – Handing in Monday’s Prompt Response
Agenda/EQ
Pace/Sequence Story Reading
Kayla G
Koryn W
Blakely W

10. 3/3/14 Prompt
Write a story that begins with the line “They had nothing to say to each other.”
Include a soldier, a ‘67 Chevy, and a chicken.
At least 1 page (front and back)