1st Period:
2nd Period:
Questions on characters from The Bluest Eye
Jigsaw:
Kids divide into groups to analyze 4 characters: Claudia, Pecola, Frieda, Mrs. MacTeer
Answer the following questions on those characters up to page 32.
THE CHARACTER PROFILE
1. What does your character look like?
2. What are your character's key relationships?
3. What is your character's chief complaint?
4. What is your character's secret?
5. What does your character fear?
Wednesday, March 11th
1st period:
Grammar Warm-up: They, their, there and you are, your
Examples of student work with errors relating to you and your
Wednesday, March 11th
1st period:
Grammar Warm-up: They, their, there and you are, your
Examples of student work with errors relating to you and your
Students get up to correct the errors in the sentences.
Go over the Vocabulary Freyer-Model for the 30 vocabulary words for THE GATSBY
Silent sustained reading of THE GATSBYGo over the Vocabulary Freyer-Model for the 30 vocabulary words for THE GATSBY
Mr. Fox’s Modified Freyer-Model Cards
Complete one modified Freyer-Model card for as many of the vocabulary words as you can. Complete 10 or more for sixty points. 5 or more for 50 points or 3 for 35 points. Complete a card for each word in the set and receive 100 points!!!!!!
Synonyms:
Plenty of
Profuseness
A lot
Amplitude
More than Enough
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Part of Speech:
Noun
Other forms:
Abundant (adj.)
Abound (verb)
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Antonyms:
Lack
Dearth
Scarcity
Paucity
Shortage
Not enough
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ABUNDANCE
/a’bendens/
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Correct Example Sentences:
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Origin:
Latin
Abundare = overflowing
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Non-Examples:
Water in the desert
Warm weather in the Arctic
Funding for public schools
Sunny days in Seattle
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Vocabulary THE GREAT GATSBY Chapter 1
1. Marred
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2. Wistful
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12. Privileged
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3. Supercilious
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13. Romantic
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4. Compulsion
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14. Dignified
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5. Deft
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15. Prey
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6. Contempt
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16. Wake
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7. Infinitesimal
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17. Abortive
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8. Cynical
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18. Privy
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9. Vulnerable
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19. Glimpse
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10. Revelation
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20. Exempt
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A. _______________ blemished by injury or rough
wear
Most of the confidences were unsought--frequently
I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile
levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign
that an intimate revelation was quivering on the
horizon--for the intimate revelations of young men
or at least the terms in which they express them are
usually plagiaristic and _________ by obvious
suppressions.
B. _________________a brief or incomplete view
When I came back from the East last autumn I felt
that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a
sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more
riotous excursions with privileged ___________
into the human heart.
C. _________________followed by `to') informed
about something secret or not generally known
The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach
itself to this quality when it appears in a normal
person, and so it came about that in college I was
unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was
________to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men.
D. _______________failing to accomplish an
intended result
No--Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what
preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the
wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my
interest in the __________ sorrows and shortwinded
elations of men.
E._________________________having or showing a
superiority to and disdain of those one views as
unworthy
Now he was a sturdy, straw haired man of thirty
with a rather hard mouth and a ___________
manner.
G.__________________
an urge to do or say
something that might be better left undone or unsaid
Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it,
bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth--but there
was an excitement in her voice that men who had
cared for her found difficult to forget: a singing
______________ a whispered "Listen," a promise
that she had done gay, exciting things just a while
since and that there were gay, exciting things
hovering in the next hour.
H._________________
Skillful in physical movements; especially of the hands.
Evidently it surprised her as much as it did me, for
she yawned and with a series of rapid,___________
movements stood up into the room.
J. __________________
lack of respect
accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike
There was a touch of paternal _______________ in
it, even toward people he liked--and there were men
at New Haven who had hated his guts.
L.___________________
to hunt for, or try to kill
for food (verb)
No--Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what
________ on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the
wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my
interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded
elations of men.
M._________________grant relief or an
exemption from a rule or requirement
Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this
book, was ___________ from my reaction--Gatsby
who represented everything for which I have an
unaffected scorn.
N. __________________ having or expressing
dignity; especially formality or stateliness in
bearing or appearance
This responsiveness had nothing to do with that
flabby impressionability which is _____________
under the name of the "creative temperament"--it
was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic
readiness such as I have never found in any other
person and which it is not likely I shall ever find
again.
O. ___________________ not sensible about
practical matters; idealistic and unrealistic
This responsiveness had nothing to do with that
flabby impressionability which is dignified under
the name of the "creative temperament"--it was an
extraordinary gift for hope, a ____________
readiness such as I have never found in any other
person and which it is not likely I shall ever find
again.
P.
______________________
not subject to usual rules or
penalties, having advantages
When I came back from the East last autumn I felt
that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a
sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more
riotous excursions with ______________ glimpses
into the human heart.
Q. ___________________ marked by close
acquaintance, association, or familiarity
Most of the confidences were unsought--frequently
I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile
levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign
that an ____________revelation was quivering on
the horizon--for the____________ revelations of
young men or at least the terms in which they
express them are usually plagiaristic and marred by
obvious suppressions.
R.___________________ infinitely or
immeasurably small
I am, and you are and you are and----" After
an_____________ hesitation he included Daisy
with a slight nod and she winked at me again. "--
and we've produced all the things that go to make
civilization--oh, science and art and all that.
S.____________________ an enlightening or
astonishing disclosure or new understanding
Most of the confidences were unsought--frequently
I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile
levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign
that an intimate __________________was
quivering on the horizon--for the intimate
______________ of young men or at least the terms
in which they express them are usually plagiaristic
and marred by obvious suppressions.
T. ____________________
susceptible to criticism
or persuasion or temptation, open to harm
In my younger and more _____________ years my
father gave me some advice that I've been turning
over in my mind ever since.
U._____________________
believing the worst of
human nature and motives; having a sneering
disbelief in e.g. selflessness of others
"Well, I've had a very bad time, Nick, and I'm pretty
______________ about everything."
2nd Period:
Kids break into their character groups for ten minutes
Groups get up to address class with their answers to analytic questions.
Thursday, March 18th:
Friday, March 13th:
1st Period:
We did a sentence fragment error correction board race, and then we read in Gatsby from Chapter three "I'm Gatsby" on, stopping to discuss Nick's first impression of Gatsby and further elaborate on the reliability of Nick as a narrator.
2nd Period:
We did a vocab part of speech board race. Then I assigned the Freyer-Model cards for a list of targeted vocabulary from the Autumn section of The Bluest Eye. They know their cards are due on Wednesday. I told them that you would post the model on the blog, but I think you already have (1st period). I've attached the word list below). Then we read aloud starting from page 40, and discussed the running metaphor of the Breedloves wearing and wielding their ugliness.
