Romantic and Modern style

Hello class and welcome to my blog.

We began the lesson by talking about our half-term homework essays. We marked someone elses (A)a essay answer and tried to learn as much as we could from it. Afterwards, we were presented with two images. we had to then state the differences between the two- One conclusion was that one was powerful, whilst the other was modern.

As the lesson progressed, we were give two words: Modern and Romatic. Romanticism in this context is widely different to the definition of romance we know today. We can define it by using Nicholas Tredell's broken down view, that is it a "literally movement" which is powered by "imagination rather than intellect." We had to draw pictures to match with his full definition of Romance in this sense. We then watched a video (which can be found of Mr Sadgrove's/ Great Gatsby's/ year 13 folder in learning resources) on him reviewing the novel, in which we had to make notes on why the fusion of modern and romance existed with the text of the novel. Tredell stated that if the novel was written entirely of romance, then it would be "comically over the top".

Later on, we were given two sheets; one containing a section of words from chapter 1 of Great Gatsby and another with two extracts. With `Words From Chapter 1` sheet we had to put an R or M depending if it was a Modern word or Romantic word. whilst, with the `Extract` sheet we has to highlight any Modern or Romantic Words/Sentences on the first extract.

H/W: Read through the SECOND extract and answer the following questions:

1) What is the effect of the combination of romantic and modern styles/ imagery/ rhythms in chapter 1?

2) why might FitzGerald be telling the story in this way?

Also, we have to mark one of our own section (A)b answers. If you do not have an unmarked one, then write and mark one.

Thanks Chris W :)