March 24/25 When you walk in…• Get out your SSR book and a piece of paper• Put your name, date, and period on the paper. Title it Chapters 1-3

Quiz and then number 1-8. Under #8 list A-F• Write down your homework

Today we are going to…• Collect Old Homework: Essay, DJ 1, DJ2, • Take a quiz and read our SSR books• Discuss The Great Gatsby, especially chapter 3

Turn our Dialectical Journal into a Trilectical• Analyze and imitate Fitzgerald’s writing style• Begin Chapter 4

Homework…• Finish reading Chapter 4• Analyze one aspect of Chapter 4 with a Dialectical Journal• Complete Fitzgerald imitation

Dialectical to TrilecticalHaving trouble with your discussion? Maybe these will

help.

How is the party in chapter 2 different from the party in chapter 3? How is it similar?

Jordan and Nick run into a man in the library. What is this man so excited about? What else does he notice? Why might Gatsby have a huge library full of books he hasn’t read?

What is your impression of Jay Gatsby?

Look back at the first paragraph of chapter 3. This paragraph hints at one of the major themes of this novel. What is it and how does it hint to it?

What is Nick’s cardinal virtue? What is ironic about this? Discuss the details that Gatsby tells Nick about Gatsby’s life. What parts of his story make you suspicious?

What is your impression of the kind of person Mr. Wolfsheim is? How is this impression colored by Nick’s narration? What is the significance of including this character?

What does Jordan Baker reveal about Gatsby in this chapter? How does this change your perception of his character?

Explain what happened with their relationship after Gatsby and Daisy met.

Author Imitation

One way to improve our own writing is to analyze and imitate the style of a another.

We are going to try this with one passage from our novel.

Step One – Highlight the following:

all punctuation marks articles (a, an, the) conjunctions (for, and, nor, but, or,

yet, so) prepositions (____________ the log) --

words that note location or place in time (at least 10)• from, of, with, in, under, over, where, by,

into, in, after, before, between, beside, along

Step Two – Imitate with a new location chosen by YOU

Be creative – choose a new location (gym, your room, Purgatory, deserted island, Heaven, beach, forest, jungle, cave…)

You may NOT change ANY of the words or punctuation marks that you highlighted.

You may change any other word, and add additional words or punctuation as needed, as long as you remain mostly faithful to the original sentence structure.

Be creative! Style imitations give you the opportunity to work with syntax that may be unfamiliar to you.