The Great Gatsby: Introduction

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Seating plan DP1  Lit  HL & SL

board

Window

Door

Nuha

Ahana

Maxine

Eline 

Abriella

Vera 

Oishi 

Hanna

Kerya

Dafne

Zoe, 

Dana

Illia

Sam

Lara

Merijn 

Jasmijn

Orla

Sophie 

Goals for today 

Presentations contextual information 

Consideration of areas of interest in the novel 

Concepts in The Great Gatsby 

Choose any one image 

Write a structured response in which you: 

1. Capture your thoughts and feelings about your chosen image.
   
2. Consider your initial response(s) as well as the impact of the Photo Details.
   
3. What ideas/ issues did the image provoke?
   
4. What techniques used in the image (as well as the caption/ title of each photograph) seemed impactful to you and why?

Course companion 

This is not a textbook, but a course companion.

It is a very good reference resource and you may be assigned reading or exercises from it. Do not leave it in your locker, take it home. 

Kognity 

Used as a study resource. 

Used to practise skills and assign exercises.

Menu of literary texts studied in Lit DP1 

Carol Ann Duffy selected poems	A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen	The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood
The Garden Party and other stories Katherine Mansfield	The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald	If this is a Man Primo Levi

Menu of literary texts studied in Lit DP2

The Visit Friedrich Durrenmatt	Othello William Shakespeare
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien	A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess

Nightlife, entertainment, music  and fashion (NY and USA)

Illegal sources of income including prohibition and the effects. (USA)

New inventions and the influence of consumerism on social class.

Sport,  women's rights and other activists. Legal position of minorities in NY and the USA

1920- 1929 (approx) 

Quick and dirty guide to NY & USA in the 1920s

1. Jazz age/roaring 20s 

2. Attire/fashion/styles (men and women) 

3. Entertainment (music, sport, cinema industry, night clubs) 

4. Culture/class/customs/ lifestyle in New York

5. Illegal sources of income (bootlegging, gambling, criminality)

6. Inventions (cars, radios, other inventions) 

7. Women's rights and other activists 

8. Politics in the USA including prohibition throughout the 20s

Rate the word 1 to 4

1. I do not know the word, and I have never seen it before. 

2. I've heard or seen the word before, but I'm not sure what it means. 

3. I know the word and can recognise and understand it while reading, but I probably wouldn't feel comfortable using it in writing or speech. 

4. I know the word well and can use it correctly in writing or speech. 

Facticious 

Word of the day

Factitious (adj) - not spontaneous or natural; artificial; contrived or made or manufactured.

What is the difference between factitious and fictitious? Write down your answer

The skilled sculptor crafted a factitious marble statue that appeared almost lifelike

Fictitious: created, taken, or assumed for the sake of concealment; not genuine; false, for example, <b>fictitious names&nbsp;</b><div>relating to, or consisting of fiction; imaginatively produced or set forth; created by the imagination: <b>a fictitious hero.</b></div>

Content

Women x 2&nbsp;<div>City, skyscrapers&nbsp;</div><div>Green licht. Reflection&nbsp;</div><div>Head with woman inside (male?)&nbsp;</div><div>colours: green, black, white, orange&nbsp;</div>

Mood

Pensive, thoughtful

Event

Young woman walking in a city alone.&nbsp;<div>Man thinking about a woman walking in a city alone.&nbsp;</div>

Setting

Large city with skyscrapers.&nbsp;

Content<div><div>Mood</div><div>Event&nbsp;</div><div>Setting&nbsp;</div></div>

Content<div><div>Mood</div><div>Event&nbsp;</div><div>Setting&nbsp;</div></div>

Content<div><div>Mood</div><div>Event&nbsp;</div><div>Setting&nbsp;</div></div>

Content<div><div>Mood</div><div>Event&nbsp;</div><div>Setting&nbsp;</div></div>

Act 1

Human Experience concepts Literature  

The Great Gatsby 

Human Experience Concepts: 

Belonging    Dreams    Authenticity    Insecurities 

Write for the duration of the music on these experiences in your own life. You will not share.&nbsp;

Act 1

The Great Gatsby 

Posted in our Managebac calendar is the assigned reading. Keep up with the reading and have it completed before you come into lesson. You cannot fully access the analysis or participate in discussion if you have not completed the reading. 

F. Scott Fitzgerald born 1896 died 1940

Fitzgerald is credited with coining the term 'jazz age'. This novel takes place in America during the 1920s. You will expand your knowledge of this period in history. 

The context of composition is very important for this novel to fully understand some of the nuances and references. 

Goals for today 

Presentation of the context of composition 

Taking sketch notes 

Chapter 1 The Great Gatsby

Summative paper 1 essay 7th October Tuesday 

Rate the word 1 to 4

1. I do not know the word, and I have never seen it before. 

2. I've heard or seen the word before, but I'm not sure what it means. 

3. I know the word and can recognise and understand it while reading, but I probably wouldn't feel comfortable using it in writing or speech. 

4. I know the word well and can use it correctly in writing or speech. 

Eugenics&nbsp;

Word of the day

Eugentics (n) = The study or practice of attempting to improve the human gene pool by encouraging the reproduction of people considered to have desirable traits and discouraging or preventing the reproduction of people considered to have undesirable traits.

Word of the day

What do you think the Greek root genos means if you consider the meaning of this word?

There was concern that genetic profiling might lead to a form of eugenics, in which parents are told which children they can bring into the world.

birth, give birth or beget.

Use the sketch note template to make notes on the presentations. One box should be vocabulary. You can go outside of the boxes.&nbsp;

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