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- Non-Fiction Book Suggestions
- Just Some Fun with Gatsby
- 1. What is the American Dream? (Everyone must answer)
- 2. The Great GAPsby Society
- 3. Social Rules
- 4. Nick Carraway's Sense of Morality
- 5. Jay Gatsby and Tom Buchanan
- 6. POV
- 7. Nick's Feelings
- 8. Social and Moral Behavior
- 9. Symbols
- 10. Poetry
- 11. Tragic Hero
- 12. Females
- 13. Believable?
- 14. Climax
- 15. Archetypes
- 16. Stereotypes
- 17. The Relationship
- 18. Gatsby's Actions
- 19. Style
- 20. Gatsby and Tom
- 21. Compare and Contrast
- 22. The Real Daisy
- 23. Minor Characters
- 24. Title
- 25. Nick's Role
- 26. Who was responsible for Gatsby's death.
- 27. Gatsby's Death
- 28. Myrtle's Death
- 29. How was Nick different
- 30. Was Gatsby different
- 31. Tom and Daisy
- 32. Classic
- 33. Rotten Crowd
- 34. Money
- 35. The Green Light
- 36. Gatz
- 37. The Funeral
- 38. The Child
- 39. The Party
- 40. Myrtle
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Your Summer Assingment
1. Read The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. You should be prepared to take a test on the book on the first day of class.
2. Participate on The Great Gatsby Blog (Due the first day of class.)
Rules for Discussion Board
a. You must make ten postings over the next two months. Each posting is worth a maximum of ten points. Therefore, make sure that what you say is valid, supported, and original.
b. Five of these postings should be in response to a posting made by someone in the class. You may agree or disagree, but you must provide support for your point of view using MLA citation format.
c. The remaining five postings must be original observations by you. You should use the book to give help you support your answer and use internal citations.
d. Each posting must be thoughtful and grammatically correct sentences.
e. Use correct grammar and spelling; do not use slang, abbreviations, or IM speak. (Watch capitalization.)
f. It is a good idea to type your response in a word processing program first to eliminate basic errors. Then copy and paste it into the discussion board. Proofread carefully!
g. Do not use any cute nicknames. I will only grade the work by the names that are given to me on my roster. You must use your real name. h. Any postings that are defamatory or the least bit obscene will be deleted and will receive no credit.
i. Be creative, thoughtful, and open.
j. Remember your comments are now public.
3. Read a non-fiction book of high academic rigor. It must be at least 150 pages long. I have suggestions for you if you need any help.
4. Write an essay about your non-fiction book. It should be one of the following formats:
Language Analysis Essay – evaluates the use of language devices such as metaphors, figurative language, diction, etc. which support the theme.
Writing Strategy/Structural Analysis Essay – evaluates the organization, structure, point of view, etc. which support the theme.
Argumentative/Persuasive Essay – includes identification of strategies by the author and students writing a persuasive essay in response to the text.
You essay should be typed double, spaced, following MLA formats and using correct MLA citations. This paper should be emailed to me the first day of class. Please analyze the form of the book, do not summarize.
5. To go with your paper, you must prepare a PowerPoint that highlights your paper. Please have your thesis on a separate slide and PLEASE do not summarize the book. You should analyze the book, not summarize it.
6. Have a great summer and prepare for an engaging and hopefully challenging class.
7. If you have any questions over the summer please email any time. My email is ehogshead@cm.edu.gt or elroark@yahoo.com.
2. Participate on The Great Gatsby Blog (Due the first day of class.)
Rules for Discussion Board
a. You must make ten postings over the next two months. Each posting is worth a maximum of ten points. Therefore, make sure that what you say is valid, supported, and original.
b. Five of these postings should be in response to a posting made by someone in the class. You may agree or disagree, but you must provide support for your point of view using MLA citation format.
c. The remaining five postings must be original observations by you. You should use the book to give help you support your answer and use internal citations.
d. Each posting must be thoughtful and grammatically correct sentences.
e. Use correct grammar and spelling; do not use slang, abbreviations, or IM speak. (Watch capitalization.)
f. It is a good idea to type your response in a word processing program first to eliminate basic errors. Then copy and paste it into the discussion board. Proofread carefully!
g. Do not use any cute nicknames. I will only grade the work by the names that are given to me on my roster. You must use your real name. h. Any postings that are defamatory or the least bit obscene will be deleted and will receive no credit.
i. Be creative, thoughtful, and open.
j. Remember your comments are now public.
3. Read a non-fiction book of high academic rigor. It must be at least 150 pages long. I have suggestions for you if you need any help.
4. Write an essay about your non-fiction book. It should be one of the following formats:
Language Analysis Essay – evaluates the use of language devices such as metaphors, figurative language, diction, etc. which support the theme.
Writing Strategy/Structural Analysis Essay – evaluates the organization, structure, point of view, etc. which support the theme.
Argumentative/Persuasive Essay – includes identification of strategies by the author and students writing a persuasive essay in response to the text.
You essay should be typed double, spaced, following MLA formats and using correct MLA citations. This paper should be emailed to me the first day of class. Please analyze the form of the book, do not summarize.
5. To go with your paper, you must prepare a PowerPoint that highlights your paper. Please have your thesis on a separate slide and PLEASE do not summarize the book. You should analyze the book, not summarize it.
6. Have a great summer and prepare for an engaging and hopefully challenging class.
7. If you have any questions over the summer please email any time. My email is ehogshead@cm.edu.gt or elroark@yahoo.com.
“Her voice is full of money”, a voice comprised of nothing more than the sheer satisfaction of knowing you have the ability to do nearly whatever you wish because you have the money to do so. Daisy knows that she has the ability to do just this; just like a child knows he has the ability to live off of his parents till he is nearly 18. Daisy, as we have clearly seen in this book, loves to let money influence her actions. Whether it be thru sitting down to drinks or to drive into the city on the slightest of impulse; Daisy has the means to do it. Therefore the follow statement, “her voice was full of money,” describes the type of voice a person of great wealth would most likely have a tendency to use considering they have the reputation to back it up.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Michael. “Her voice is full of money” is the perfect way to describe Daisy. Her whole world revolves around money. It is the only thing that Daisy thinks about. She even chooses money, meaning Tom, over the love that Gatsby can give her. Also like Michael said, Daisy thinks that because she has money she can do anything. The sad thing is that in her society, and still in ours, money can buy most things. “Her voice is full of money” is the way to describe a person like Daisy, one who only thinks about money and thinks that the world revolves around her because she has the money
ReplyDeleteI agree with both Michael and Ana. Daisy is a person who knows she is charming and that her money can get her pretty much everything in life she would ever want. Daisy has all this money that she can play with yet she told Nick, “Well, I’ve had a very bad time, Nick, and I’m pretty cynical about everything.” (Fitzgerald 21). Daisy also knows that her money or her husband’s money or Gatsby’s money can give her a good life and she can buy people’s affection. I disagree with Ana when she says Daisy would give up Tom (money) for Gatsby because she is not giving up any money because Gatsby has just as much money as Tom does, if not more. A person whose “voice is full of money” can be influential in their world, but not because of their character, but because of their money. “Her voice is full of money” because she hasn’t had to go through poverty because she and her family have had money to spare.
ReplyDeleteI agree, but I also think that it may mean something deeper. Money is a medium of exchange in order to gain something. What I believe is that when Fitzgerald used the expression “Her voice is full of money”, he was referring to Daisy trying to show off to people with her bragging about how she got anything and everything anytime she wished, speaking of course, of material things. So in a way she was using her bragging, to make people buy the fact that she was rich, and fit into the upper class society at the time.
ReplyDeleteSo yes, she always spoke about money very much and her world did revolve around it.
Without money, she was nothing, being an upper classer was basically her world. And you can see this since she was a little kid, her life was perfect, or so she thought.
I think that when Gatsby told Nick “Her voice is full of money,” Gatsby meant that Daisy believes that money can handle everything, so she will throw away anything for money, even love. I agree with Michael that with money you have the ability to do many things. It is true, money can do many things, but to gain that power she threw away her dignity. By having a voice that is full of money, it shows that she was greedy always wanted more, just like she went to Gatsby instead of Tom. She wanted to show people that she had materialistic possessions just like Xara said. However, I also believer that this phrase also shows that Daisy has lost her charm that Gatsby had once seen, that he is dissapointed in the way she became. She became a person who only wanted money to use for herself.
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