English 11
2/12-2/25
2/12 Tue Chapter 7 with images traced.
2/13 Wed Chapter 8 with journal assignment below.
2/14 Thu Chapter 9 with journal assignment below.
2/18 Mon Vocabulary quiz.
Essay topic due.
2/19 Tue Introductory paragraph with thesis statement due.
2/21 Thu Essay due at the end of class. Must be submitted electronically.
2/25 Mon Essay revision due.
Vocabulary:
Harrowing (“especially for the rather harrowing scene that Gatsby had outlined in the garden”)
Contingency (“the immediate contingency overtook him. . .”
Abyss (“and pulled him back from the edge of the theoretical abyss”
Inviolate (“His wife and his mistress, until an hour ago secure and inviolate”)
Precipitately (“were slipping away precipitately from his control.”)
Disquieting (“The word ‘sensuous’ had the effect of further disquieting Tom”)
Row (“what kind of a row are you trying to cause in my house anyhow?”)
Libertine (“the transition from libertine to prig was so complete.”)
Vicarious (“a privilege to partake vicariously of their emotions.”)
Rancour (“Her voice was cold but the rancour was gone from it.”)
Magnanimous (“he insisted with magnanimous scorn.”)
Incessant (“a hollow, wailing sound which issued incessantly from the garage”)
Expostulation (“a running murmur of expostulation”)
Truculent (“looked over with truculent eyes”)
Vigil (“as though my presence marred the sacredness of the vigil”)
Journal Assignments
Chapter 8: Continue tracing one of the images we’ve discussed thus far (your own, someone else’s or another of interest to you). Find at least three instances of it (including at least one from this chapter) and write a full paragraph in which you explore its meaning.
Chapter 9: How do the final four paragraphs of the novel sum up its meaning as you understand it?
