Bellwork May 24 th :

1. Bellwork May 24th: • Describe your favorite color using the following: ( 2-3 sentences each) • 1. a set of emotions it makes you feel • 2. What it represents to you • 3. Memories you have with this color • 4. People this color is connected to for you • 5. Give it a creative name that it has for you . Describe your choices in its name.

2. The Great Gatsby Color symbolism Get out a sheet of paper for activities and notes

3. “Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions” --Pablo Picasso What does this quote mean? What colors have we seen show up in Gatsby repeatedly?

4. What colors other than “red” can you come up with for this slide?

5. Color Names Mental Activity For the following slides: • write down three color names (other than red, orange, green, blue, yellow, and purple) • Think back to our brainstorm for “red”. • You will have thirty seconds per slide .

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25. Partner Compare: • Look at what you wrote for colors: • 11 • 5 • 19 • How do your answers compare? Why ( if you did) might you have gotten different answers here?

26. Closer Analysis: •  How would readers or listeners react to these color names? •  What associations will they make? • What would you expect from a can of paint named after these colors? •  Why would a paint company use one of these names for their products? What kind of buyer would they be trying to attract?

27. Connotation and Color Symbolism: • Many words, like colors, have certain connotations to them. Things like traffic signs have connotations to them. • What road signs can we think of that have powerful connotation? What colors are they? • Authors sometimes use colors as road signs in their texts to add meaning to their story. When we watch for these road signs, we can understand deeper meanings in the texts. • Fitzgerald uses this device throughout Gatsby

28. Bellwork May 28th : • “Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.”-Aristotle1. Put the quote into your own words (1-2 sentences) 2. Do you agree or disagree with it? Explain in 5-7 sentences 3. How does this quote relate to Gatsby? Is Gatsby a youth as this quote describes? Does this quote only describe youth or can it apply to other generations as well? ( 3-5 sentences)

29. Notes on Color Symbolism: • Take notes on the following slides about color symbolism in Gatsby • Before I give you detailed information for each color, be ready to brainstorm what that color might represent

30. Gold • Richness • happy or prosperous: golden days, golden age • successful: the golden girl • extremely valuable: a golden opportunity

31. Gold • At Gatsby's parties even the turkeys turn to gold. "..turkeys bewitched to a dark gold" (p. 41). • Jordan Baker - the golden girl of golf - is associated with that color. "With Jordan's slender golden arm resting in mine" (p. 44); "I put my arm around Jordan's golden shoulder" (p. 77).

32. Yellow • Sometimes the gold at Gatsby's house turns to yellow • "now the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music" (p. 42). • In contrast to the golden girl Jordan, her admirers are only yellow. "two girls in twin yellow dresses"; "»You don't know who we are,« said one of the girls in yellow, »but we met you here about a month ago.«" "... we sat down at a table with the two girls in yellow" (all p. 44). • Remarkably Daisy's daughter has old and yellow hair: "Did mother get powder on your old yellowy hair?" (p. 111).

33. Silver • jewelry and richness • In The Great Gatsby the moon or moonlight or the stars are often silver: • "the silver pepper of the stars" (p. 25); • "The moon had risen higher, and floating in the Sound was a triangle of silver scales" (p. 48); • "A silver curve of the moon hovered already in the western sky" (p. 114).

34. White • 1) morally unblemished honorable; pure • When Nick Caraway visited the Buchanans he met two young women, of course Daisy and Jordan "They were both in white" (p. 13). • Even the windows at Daisy's house are white "The windows were ajar and gleaming white" (p. 13). • "Our white girlhood was passed together there. Our beautiful white" (Daisy and Jordan, p. 24). • "they came to a place where there were no trees and the sidewalk was white with moonlight" (Daisy and Gatsby, p. 106). • In a El-Greco-like picture at the end of the novel "four solemn men in dress suits are walking along the sidewalk with a stretcher on which lies a drunken woman in a white evening dress" (p. 167). • "His heart beat faster as Daisy's white face came up to his own" (p. 107).

35. White • Fitzgerald uses the color white for At the end of the novel ["the party was over" (p. 171), like the end of the Jazz Age at the Great Depression 1929] somebody soiled Gatsby's house. "On the white steps an obscene word, scrawled by some boy with a piece of brick, stood out clearly in the moonlight, and I erased it" (p. 171). • Daisy Fay. She wears white clothes and has a white car.

36. Green • Fitzgerald used it mainly for "not faded", like in "a green old age", or for hope. • This green light is across the sea where Buchanan's house is supposed to be. Gatsby said: "»You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of your dock«" (p. 90); • "Now it was again a green light on a dock" (p. 90); “ • ...when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock" (p. 171); • "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us" (p. 171). • Later the whole water between Gatsby and Daisy gets green "On the green Sound, stagnant in the heat,.." (p. 112). • Once (as far as I found it) Fitzgerald used "green" for envious or jealous: "In the sunlight his face was green" (George Wilson, p. 117).

37. Grey • is often used for neutral • dull • not important • "grey little villages in France" (p. 48); • "The grey windows disappeared" (at Gatsby's house, p. 91); • "... a grey, florid man with a hard, empty face" (p. 97) • The Wilsons, living in the valley of ashes, appear in grey, except for Myrtle, when she enjoys the company of Tom Buchanan. • Wilson "mingling immediately with the cement color of the walls. A white ashen dust veiled his dark suit and his pale hair as it veiled everything in the vicinity – except his wife, who moved close to Tom" (p. 28).

38. Blue • the color of being depressed • Moody • unhappy • Although a lot of people are in and around his house, his gardens (plural!) are blue. "... ghostly birds began to sing among the blue leaves" (p. 144 • After Myrtle's death George Wilson and Mr.Michaelis are in a blue mood. " ... a blue quickening by the window, and realized that dawn wasn't far off. About five o'clock it was blue enough outside to snap off the light" (p. 151). • The most unhappy place is the graveyard: "He had come a long way to this blue lawn" (Carraway at Gatsby's grave, p. 171).

39. Pink • Sometimes Gatsby comes up in the color pink. "the luminosity of his pink suit under the moon" (Gatsby, p.136). • When Gatsby and Daisy are finally together, "there was a pink and golden billow of foamy clouds above the sea" (p. 91). • Calm Friendship • New relationships • Peace

40. Red • Alive • Joy • Love • Shame • rage • The inside of Buchanan's home is in red. "We walked through a high hallway into a bright rosy-colored space" (p. 13); • "Inside, the crimson room bloomed with light" (p. 22).

41. Light • Light colors represent dreams or goals • Gatsby follows the pure light of the grail • Gatsby is reintroduced to Daisy on a dewy bright morning.

42. Dark • Dark colors are the realities of Gatsby's dream-like life. • The Valley of Ashes is the stark opposition to East and West Egg All of Gatsby's parties are held at night and are bright with a false light.

43. Add to your Summary • What does your favorite color symbolize about you? • How does Fitzgerald use colors in the Great Gatsby to add meaning to the novel?

44. Bellwork May 29th: Use this story starter to write a story based on the image: Although the message on his voicemail was scratchy, _____________heard the words “ _________________” and decided to investigate.( 10-15 sentences)

45. Partner Color Posters: ( 25minutes) • 1. Write your assigned color creatively as a title for your poster 2. Draw a bubble map with the color in the middle and ideas/people/emotions/concepts from the real world that come to mind for that color on the outside bubbles (at least six bubbles) 3. Add 3-5 people places or things in Gatsby that are associated with this color to your bubble map ( Make these bubbles a different color) 4. Find a quote from the novel to describe the most important object from #3.5. explain the quote and why this object is important 6. Draw the object you chose for #4. Use the color in your representation

46. Final Project Assignment • As we read the handout • Ask clarifying questions • Be sure you understand your job and how to receive a good grade for your final exam • Be ready to spend a day working on party preparations in class; sign up for your desired group today as we discuss the project ( limit 9 )

47. Bellwork May 30th:

48. Work Time Expectations • Focused Group Time • -25 points per reminder • Noise Level • Level 2 ( 10 seconds after class if I have to remind the class) • Spend a few minutes ( 10 at most) brainstorming ideas • Then work on implementing the ideas as a group