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UNIT LEARNING TARGET�I CAN ANALYZE A TEXT BY CITING TEXTUAL EVIDENCE

Break down and examine a text

Analyze

strong and thorough, explicit evidence

Identify

with complexity and insight drawn from the text

Infer

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ANALYZE

To break something down methodically into its parts to understand how it is made, what it is, how it works; look at something critically in order to grasp its essence.

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(Burke)

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USE INFERENCE IN ANALYSIS

  1. Start simple: what do you notice, piece by piece
  2. Connect: Look for connections of small things
  3. Address: the various sources of tension/complexity

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SMALL DESCRIPTIONS MATTER:�WITH LOVE AND ANTICIPATION!

DAISY (excitedly): I certainly am awfully glad to see you again.

GATSBY (with wonder, focusing only on Daisy): We’ve met before knocks off clock. Sorry about the clock.

NICK (timidly saying something as if to justify his presence): It’s an old clock.

DAISY: (tragically, as if through the pain of separation over years): We haven’t met for many years.

GATSBY (as if the wait is over): Five years next November.

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SMALL DESCRIPTIONS MATTER:�WITH ANXIETY AND AWKWARDNESS.

Daisy (unsure of what to say): I certainly am awfully glad to see you again.

Gatsby (as if trying to explain his presence): We’ve met before. knocks off clock. Sorry about the clock.

Nick (trying to change the subject): It’s an old clock.

Daisy (matter of fact): We haven’t met for many years.

Gatsby (too suddenly): Five years next November.

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DECONSTRUCTION

  1. Poem, but in paragraph format
  2. Family relationships
  3. Nature and danger
  4. Acceptance/insufficiency
  5. Discomfort
  6. Masculinity

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DECONSTRUCTION

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DECONSTRUCTION

  1. Poem, but in paragraph format
  2. Family relationships
  3. Nature and danger
  4. Acceptance/insufficiency
  5. Discomfort
  6. Masculinity

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DECONSTRUCTION

  1. Poem, but in paragraph format
  2. Family relationships
  3. Nature and danger
  4. Acceptance/insufficiency
  5. Discomfort
  6. Masculinity

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DISTILLING�CHARACTERS

Big IDEA

Actions

Quotes

Descriptions

Plot

Mood

Relationships

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ANALYSIS IS TO GRASP THE ESSENCE�OF SOMETHING BY LOOKING AT ITS PIECES AND PARTS

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LEARNING GOALS

  1. ​Comprehend novel.
  2. Make inferences about the characters
  3. Identify interesting evidence, details, or observations to help determine complexity of characters or theme.
  4. Identify unfamiliarly vocabulary and identify it's use in a passage
  5. OVERACHING THEME: What is Fitzgerald’s commentary on the pursuit of happiness and its connection wealth, past, status, and relationships?