Year 12 LESSON NINE [15th Nov 12]: Homework.

The whole focus of this session was Chapter 5 of THE GREAT GATSBY. All the content discussed within this session was aimed at providing content for the essay title:
HOW DOES FITZGERALD TELL THE STORY IN CHAPTER 5?
Areas of the chapter that were discussed included:

• The significance of Carraway's narrative, whether Fitzgerald develops Carraway's character and how Fitzgerald may be using Carraway to explore specific ideas or themes.
• The significance of the light imagery within this chapter.
• The significance of music within this chapter. Click on links below:

Original version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y041-eT6QrI

Doris Day's version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwf70N3hcJ4

Peggy Lee: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7wKHIYysjY

• The significance of Carraway's final melancholy comments that suggest that Daisy and Gatsby's love is doomed to fail. How does Fitzgerald suggest forewarning?
• The symbolic significance of the clock moment.
• How Fitzgerald shapes Gatsby's nervous unease.
• How this chapter fits into the structure of the whole novel.

CLASS DISCUSSION was good. This is a chapter rich in symbolic significance and demands your attention. The next essay is a MASSIVE piece of work.

HOMEWORK: I DO NOT WANT STUDENTS TO ATTEMPT THE ESSAY FOR HOMEWORK. I feel that I still need 30 minutes of the next session to illustrate how students should approach this task. Students should digest the notes that I offered in this session and read Chapter 5. The focus of student reading should be the areas that have been covered in the notes I gave you in this lesson.We will be discussing essay structure and essay content in the next session.

Furthermore students should continue to read the complete text.

Click on link to access Spark Notes video summary of the text:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6Iu29TNfkM