Final Preparation Before Mock Exam

Due to the fact that we had a mock exam later the same day, our lesson consisted of the class going over any major issues they had with the exam and general essay writing.

As a class we did not have a lot to go over in terms of problems regarding the exam; issues that we did look at were things such as how to write a thesis statement for the section B portion of the exam and how to focus on aspects of narrative during our essays.

After this discussion, Sir put up two section B questions and asked us to pick one and prepare a plan for it. The general format of the plan was:

- Thesis statement/introduction - Must name aspect, acknowledge how the named aspect applies to all three texts respectively and take up the invitation to debate.

E.g. "In the works of Fitzgerald, McEwan and Tennyson endings are use to show a characters isolation, give the reader closure and to show the stagnation of a character."

- Body paragraph one - Text one
- Body paragraph two - Text two

- Body paragraph three - Text three

- Conclusion - (Not compulsory, but preferred.)

Mr Chatterley asked one person to volunteer for each question to tell the class their plan so as to act as a template. These plans were put up on the board and the class continued to discuss what the author of the plan did correctly and what needed to be improved.

After this we each received a sheet with a band six essay answer to section B. The class was asked to identify the essay's thesis statement.

Once this was done we were told to write an answer to the question we previously choose in the lesson an made a plan for using the band six essay as a guide along with our own plan.

We used the time till the end of the lesson to write our answer which concluded the lesson; after school we had a mock exam where we applied the practice we received in this lesson and hopefully did well in.

Good luck everyone.

Roman A.

Booklist

1984 George Orwell A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving A Room with a View EM Forster An Equal Music Vikram Seth Alice's Adventures In Wonderland Lewis Carroll American Pastoral Philip Roth At Swim Two Birds Flann O'Brien Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand Atonement Ian McEwan Beloved Toni Morrison Birdsong Sebastian Faulks Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy Brave New World Aldous Huxley Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh Captain Corelli's Mandolin Louis de Bernieres Catch-22 Joseph Heller Clarissa Samuel Richardson Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky Dangerous Liaisons Pierre Choderlos De Laclos Daniel Deronda George Eliot Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes Dracula Bram Stoker Emma Jane Austen Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury Fight Club Chuck Palahniuk For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway Frankenstein Mary Shelley Great Expectations Charles Dickens Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad Invisible Man Ralph Ellison Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy LA Confidential James Ellroy Les Miserables Victor Hugo Light in August William Faulkner Little Women Louisa May Alcott Lolita Vladimir Nabokov Lord Of The Flies William Golding Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden Middlemarch George Eliot Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie Money Martin Amis Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf Naked Lunch William S Borroughs Of Human Bondage WS Maugham On the Road Jack Kerouac One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury Pilgrim's Progress John Bunyan Rebecca Daphne du Maurier Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe Scoop Evelyn Waugh Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut Sophie's Choice William Styron Tess of the D'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy The Alchemist Paulo Coelho The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler The Black Sheep Honore De Balzac The Catcher in the Rye J D Salinger The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas The Executioner's Song Norman Mailer The God Of Small Things Arundhati Roy The Godfather Mario Puzo The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitgerald The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams The Hobbit JRR Tolkien The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini The Magus John Fowles The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco The New York Trilogy Paul Auster The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne The Secret History Donna Tartt The Stranger Albert Camus The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas The Trial Franz Kafka The Unbearable Lightness of Being Milan Kundera The Woman White Wilkie Collins Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf Trainspotting Irvine Welsh Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Robert Pirsig

Settings

I got picked again for the blog. To be honest, I don't think my name got picked out of the cup, but I was the only one that laughed when Mr. Sadgrove buckled (hahahaha) so he picked me. *Anyway, the focus of the lesson was settings - mainy in the The Great Gatsby, but also in the other texts we've been studying. So, the first thing we had to do was to write a headline for 'Town Tattle' (the magazine on the table in Mytle's apartment) focusing on the events in Chapter 4 and 5. For Chapter 4's headline I wrote ' GATSBY TO DAISY: "I WANT YOU BACK" ' and for Chapter 5 I wrote 'DAISY AND GATSBY'S FLING -PAGES 5 AND 6!". Don't know why, but when Mr. Sadgrove asked everyone what headlines they had done, the word 'revealed' kept coming up. *We then moved on, and listened (once again) to Nicholas Tredell (aka 'egghead' according to Mr. Sadgrove). Tredell commented on the use of 1st person narrator and -briefly - the use of Jordan as a modified 1st person narrator. Tredell said that the use of a first person narrator creates intamacy, involvement and immediacy between the narrator and the audience. However, Tredell also spoke of the negative side of a 1st person narrator. Sticking to a first person narrator, he said, means the narrator cannot always tell you about something, and how everything filters through Nick, which makes it debatable whether something is totally factual. *Then, we disussed 'Pathetic Fallacy'. This is defined as "when the inanimate reflects mood or sense or ideas. It's a form of personification." After this, we split in to 4/5 groups and each group was designated a setting in The Great Gatsby to study. The 4 settings were East Egg, West Eggm The Valley of the Ashes and New York. We then split up in to another 4/5 groups and discussed our respective settings that we had studied and made notes on each one. Homework: - Read all of The Great Gatsby (Tuesday) *NOTE TO EVERYONE: IF YOU'RE WRITING THE BLOG AND YOU HAVEN'T PUBLISHED IT, DO NOT CLICK ON 'CHECK PRINITING BALANCE'. IT CHANGED THE PAGE AND I HAD TO WRITE THE WHOLE BLOODY BLOG AGAIN. *Daniel.

Hey guys, welcome to the amazingness that is my blog. In the lesson we most prominently began reading Chapter 4, but also gained quite a large insight into the elusive Gatsby's character.

Starter- Facebook Status Update for Gatsby: Unfortunately, I haven't added Gatsby on Facebook so I couldn't view his status at the time of posting. The process went something like "Send Friend Request->Friend Request Pending->Friend Request Denied"... When asked why I decided that this was the case, I wrote: "I hear" and "I think", the most prominent phrases regarding Gatsby himself- they reveal that he never wants anyone to get close, and that no-one actually knows who he truly is. With a reputation based on rumours, it may ruin his reputation if he starts accepting facebook Friend Requests..

Insight into Nick's Character

We then watched a video with a person that described various facets of Nick’s character (I say person, he’s more of an authority)- a person who, deliberately, RUINED the end of the book. For all those who it didn’t get ruined for, I’m a sore loser- so I must say that GATSBY DIES. Thanks for that DVD Man.. We were asked to identify and note down the three most important things out of the stuff that he said... these are: 1) The most complex and perhaps difficult character to see- due to his self effasive nature.

2) Two conflicting viewpoints are highlighted in his character, these are:

o Nick is the consciousness of the novel, and thus is tolerant but appropriately judgmental. He learns from his experiences, is reliable- and goes through moral growth. In a sense, he is the hero.

o Nick is an obtuse, self righteous narrator that shows no insight into his own motives. He leaves the novel as clueless as he was from the beginning.

3) Nick is an enigma of opinions, no one point of view can be definitely decided can be decided

Insight into Gatsby’s Character Well, we did one of those circles overlapping diagram thingies, but as I don’t have the capabilities to do so here, I’ll stick to the classical method of subheadings. Yay.

Gossip Killed Someone, Related to Kaiser Wilhelm, Went to Oxford, Was a Spy

Gossip/Fact In the Army

Facts Likes Green Lights, Lives on West Egg, Man likes to party, Likes English people (?)

Afterwards, we began reading Chapter 4, and the unrelenting list of guests to the Great Gatsby’s parties that he feels we have to know. From them, a few choice words can be chosen:

Hand Ran Over, Fight, Suicide, Drowned, Nose Shot Off.

These should reveal something pretty obvious about Gatsby: he is surrounded by violence. When we wonder why Nick tells us these things that perhaps he should have kept in confidence the anwser can be found quite easily: He believes that there is safety in the numbers of names he mentioned, he believes that it gives the annomity. But perhaps moreso- he takes some sort of pride in having met these people, perhaps he wants to be disgusted, but just isn’t.

Impressions of Gatsby

These are my impressions of him so far, if you don't agree, then comment with your disagreement. I will still be the one whose right however. The association with those that have the potential to, and some that have, commited criminal acts shines a somewhat negative light on the elusive Gatsby- he loses some of his hard earned annomity to the "foul dust" that trails him, and try as he might to rise above these unfortuneate acquaintances - they will forever tarnish perception of him and add a nasty bias to the deduction of the motivation behind his actions.

Homework

-Discuss characterisation of gatsby Ch1-4

-Discuss characterisation of Wolfstein- mention "selective detail"

-Why might Jordan narrate part of the story?

-Comment on the timeshift -Read Ch.4 & 5 -COMMENT MY BLOG!

Consolidation

The first task was to draw a mask of the Duke of Ferrara emphasizing certain features of his face to outline certain emotions or characteristics that he reveals within the poem.

Our second task was to choose songs that described or related to certain characters that we have studied from Browning's poems.

The characters are:

Duke of Ferrara

Fra Lippo Lippi

The Bishop

Patriot

Porphyria

Porphyria's lover

After this our next task was to create a script in which the Bishop (from "The Bishop Orders his Tomb") and Fra Lippo Lippi are conversing. The first line of this script had to be "So this is purgatory..." and the conversation should have explored the characters views on religion and other themes such as art and hypocrisy etc.

The last task was to read the poem "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" and write a short summary of the poem afterwards.

Homework:

Comment on the blog listing your songs for the characters

Research themes Browning has included in his poetry and possible suggestions for why

HOMEWORK

A(a) How does Browning tell the Bishop's tale in line 1-44?

A(b) "Browning poems reveal a morbid fascination with death" discuss this view

At the beginning of the lesson we described the components of Dramatic Monologue...they were:

• Speaker who's not the poet
• A listener
• An occasion
• Interplay between speaker and listener

Afterwards we read the poem, "The Patriot", describing a mans life once his fame has died out. As the Patriot is a short poem, we then read "The Bishop orders his tomb" discussing the Bishop's choices on creating his tomb to be remembered.

Tuesday 22nd March 2011

What do we know/What have we heard about Gatsby by the start of Chapter3?

Our starter in the lesson was to recap on chapter 3 and answer the following question on what we have read in the chapter but also the first 2 chapters that mentions Gatsby.

We still dont know much about Gatsby as he still remains a mysterious figure throughout the first 3 chapters we read. As a class we came up with many personas of Gatsby and the rumors that has been spreading about him. We had to come up with quotes from the book to back up our ideas.

• We have been told "that he was a German spy during the war".
• Gatsby has been rumored that he "killed a man".
• Hes a scary person "id hate to have him get anyhting on me"
• Seen as a powerful figure as Nick interprets that "theres something gorgous about him.
• Hes seen as a romantic figure and a well known man
• Rich/Wealthy
• Isolated/lonely/Mysterious
• "Hes was an Oxford man"
• Rumored that hes related to Euopean royalty

We had to put in order on what were the four most importanat factors upon Gatspy this was my order.

1. Isolation
2. Nicks impression on Gatsby
3. Romantic figure
4. The Gatsby rumors that "he once killed a man"

Our next task we had to think about AO2 which is language structure and form and what conventions that goes into writing in the AO2 especially for The Great Gatsby

Imagery

• Gustory- taste
• Tactile- touch
• Olfactory-smell
• Kineatic-movement
• Auditory-sound
• Visual-sight

Narrative structure

• Romantic/Modern style
• Symbolizm
• Similies/Metaphors
• Colour
• sentence Structure

Realating to A02 we did a table and on the Key quotation on Chapter 3, What the image dose and What impression dose it give of Gatsby.

This is an example of what we had to do in the lesson

Key Quotation Chapter 3 What this image dose Whats the impression of Gatsby

"In his blue gardens men and girls came" Blue at the time reprseneted This shows Gatspy as being

richness, mystreious. isolated

"aquaplaness over contracts foam" movemnt, romantism and Gatsby is seen as really wealthy

modern combined. since many people at the time

couldnt afford it.

"The air is alive with Chatter and laughter" Personifaction making non Gatsby lives freely especially links

living things come to life to the jazz age everyone living

happly, no deprseeion.

"The light grows brighter as the We get a colour impression, Gatsby hospitality shows

earth lurches away from the sun" kineastic imagery, phatic phallecy that the none living world are

mood of the party is really cheerful appreciating it.

that even the non living world are

experiencing it. Romantism and

realism combined scientificly.

HOMEWORK

• Go through the rest of the chapter and add 5 more quotes to the list that we done in lesson
• Complete the sheets that we were given and PLEASE DO THE FOLLOWING!!!

Nick as a character

• What he says/dosent say/how he says things
• What others think of him
• Wat he dose

Nick as a Narrator

• The way he presents himself and other characters
• His telling of Gatspy story
• Anything that might be missing or inaccurate

ROSIE YAGIEN