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ALL work must be submitted by January 15 @ 2pm.–8 Achieve articles with a score of 75%

or higher–Formal Writing Assignment–Tweet Sheets from The Crucible–All forum posts

A-day: 16%B-day: 32%

Collective: 24%

Rationale:

• Period 1: 20%

• Period 3: 15%

• Period 4: 13%

• Period 5: 29%

• Period 7: 17%

• Period 8: 50%

Which of the following

alternatives to the

underlined

portion would be

LEAST acceptable in

terms of the context of

this sentence?

A. Mark the union of Michigan’s two peninsulas.B. Serve as a symbol of suspension bridges around the world. C. Provide an image of strength and grace to all who cross it.D. Pay tribute to the progress of a great state.

Today, the Mackinac Bridge is as solid as ever. In 1998, it collected its 100 millionth toll. It will continue to serve drivers and highway travelers well into the future and stand as a monument to Michigan’s perseverance.

Explanation

Think about this…What is the topic?

The Mackinac Bridge in the context of

Michigan, not the context of all the

world’s suspension Bridges. B

This is why your correct answer is…

Definition: Two things being

placed together for a contrasting effect

Juxtaposition

When characters live at odds with the surrounding environment, or the best possible lifestyle. Think of the Districts vs. the Capital in Hunger Games.

Pronunciation: [jux-ta-po-si-shun]

Part of Speech:noun

Objective:

SWBAT gain background knowledge of F. Scott

Fitzgerald, The Roaring Twenties, and The Great

Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald: Three Truths and a lie

A. His most famous work, “The Great Gatsby” was considered a flop upon its release. Posthumous releases of his work secured this novel as one of the most beloved novels of our time.

B. Fitzgerald was a poor student, and an atrocious speller. He struggled to achieve passing grades in both grade school and college, and had often gotten in trouble for skipping class while attending Princeton University.

C. Fitzgerald was named after his famous, but distant ancestor, Francis Scott Key, who wrote “The Star Spangled Banner.”

D. Fitzgerald served as a second lieutenant in the army during World War I. He was shipped overseas in 1918.

Truth: Fitzgerald was a poor student and an atrocious speller.

Fitzgerald read widely and demonstrated early talent for writing, but he was a lousy student who struggled to achieve passing marks in both grade school and in college. He had a penchant for cutting

classes during his time at Princeton University, and nearly failed out before abandoning his studies to join the military. Despite his

legendary command of the written word, Fitzgerald was also a poor speller and may have suffered from dyslexia. After reading a typo-

filled version of “This Side of Paradise,” literary critic Edmund Wilson—a classmate of Fitzgerald’s during his Princeton days—declared it

“one of the most illiterate books of any merit ever published…full of English words misused with the most reckless abandon.”

Truth: Fitzgerald’s most famous work was considered a flop upon its release.

Despite winning rave reviews from the likes of T.S. Eliot and Edith Wharton, Fitzgerald’s 1925 masterpiece “The Great Gatsby” was

never a bestseller in his lifetime. It performed poorly compared to his first two novels, selling just over 20,000 copies and only turning a meager profit for its publisher. Popular interest in the book didn’t

spike until World War II, when some 150,000 copies were shipped to U.S. servicemen overseas. Combined with other posthumous re-releases of his work, this “Armed Services Edition” helped revive

Fitzgerald’s literary reputation and secure “The Great Gatsby” a place among the most beloved American novels. The book now sells some

500,000 copies each year.

Truth: Fitzgerald was named after a famous ancestor.

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul Minnesota on September 24, 1896. He was named for

Francis Scott Key, the lawyer and writer who penned the lyrics to “The Star Spangled Banner” during the War of 1812. The two were only distantly related—Key was a

second cousin three times removed—but Fitzgerald was known to play up the family connection. While driving

past a statue of Key in an alcoholic haze in 1934, he supposedly hopped from the car and hid in the bushes,

yelling to a friend, “Don’t let Frank see me drunk!”

Lie: Fitzgerald narrowly missed out on serving in World War I.

When the United States entered World War I in 1917, Fitzgerald dropped out of Princeton and took a commission as a second lieutenant in the army. Worried he might die in

battle, he began frantically writing in his off-hours in the hopes of leaving behind a literary legacy. While he never

made it to the battlegrounds of World War I—the November 1918 armistice was signed shortly before he was to be

shipped overseas—Fitzgerald did complete a draft of an unpublished novel called “The Romantic Egotist,” which he

later reworked into his smash hit debut “This Side of Paradise.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.

The Roaring 20s

Good Times for America • “Disposable” income

• America was a feel-good party every night

• Alcohol fueled nearly everything

• Bad behavior was the norm

• Loose morals• New “car” culture meant

people could go where they wanted when they wanted

1925 CarsDoDGE STEAM Ford Model t

Billboards became popularDisposable income =

Advertisements for products

First-time Conveniences Washing Machines Refrigerators

ART in the 1920sART DECO SURREALISM

Architecture of the 1920s

ART DECO

MUSIC WAS LIFERadios in every house Phonographs

Fashions of the 1920s

• Women nationwide began cutting their hair for the first time in the 1920s

• They felt free and liberated from former female stereotypes

Flappers

Women wore: Hats,

“Bobbed” hair,

scarves, long beads,

stockings, garters,

headbands, and

feathers in their hair

Headgear

Shorter Dresses and Fur Coats

Men’s Fashions

Tailored suits, Ties, Jackets, Cardigans, Formal Wear, White Pants, White Shoes

Clubs and Speakeasies

Speakeasies

Organized Crime in the 20s

Alcohol smuggling Secret Compartments

1920s GangstersAl Capone Bugs Moran

The Roaring 20s

Considered: The Great

American novel

Written in 1925

THE MAIN CHARACTERS:

Nick CarrowayThe novel’s narrator, Nick is a young man from Minnesota who, after being educated at Yale and fighting in World War I, goes to New York City to learn the bond business. Honest, tolerant, and inclined to reserve judgment, Nick often serves as a confidant for those with troubling secrets. After moving to West Egg, a fictional area of Long Island that is home to the newly rich, Nick quickly befriends his next-door neighbor, the mysterious Jay Gatsby. As Daisy Buchanan’s cousin, he facilitates the rekindling of the romance between her and Gatsby. The Great Gatsby is told entirely through Nick’s eyes; his thoughts and perceptions shape and color the story.

Jay GatsbyThe title character and protagonist of the novel, Gatsby is a fabulously wealthy young man living in a Gothic mansion in West Egg. He is famous for the lavish parties he throws every Saturday night, but no one knows where he comes from, what he does, or how he made his fortune. As the novel progresses, Nick learns that Gatsby was born James Gatz on a farm in North Dakota; working for a millionaire made him dedicate his life to the achievement of wealth. When he met Daisy while training to be an officer in Louisville, he fell in love with her. Nick also learns that Gatsby made his fortune through criminal activity, as he was willing to do anything to gain the social position he thought necessary to win Daisy. Nick views Gatsby as a deeply flawed man, dishonest and vulgar, whose extraordinary optimism and power to transform his dreams into reality make him “great” nonetheless.

Daisy BuchanenNick’s cousin, and the woman Gatsby loves. As a young woman in Louisville before the war, Daisy was courted by a number of officers, including Gatsby. She fell in love with Gatsby and promised to wait for him. However, Daisy harbors a deep need to be loved, and when a wealthy, powerful young man named Tom Buchanan asked her to marry him, Daisy decided not to wait for Gatsby after all. Now a beautiful socialite, Daisy lives with Tom across from Gatsby in the fashionable East Egg district of Long Island. She is sardonic and somewhat cynical, and behaves superficially to mask her pain at her husband’s constant infidelity.

Tom BuchananDaisy’s immensely wealthy husband, once a member of Nick’s social club at Yale. Powerfully built and hailing from a socially solid old family, Tom is an arrogant, hypocritical bully. His social attitudes are laced with racism and sexism, and he never even considers trying to live up to the moral standard he demands from those around him. He has no moral qualms about his own extramarital affair with Myrtle, but when he begins to suspect Daisy and Gatsby of having an affair, he becomes outraged and forces a confrontation.

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Notes:

Chapter 1 Reading and Character

Analysis