Discussion Director Chapters 3-4

CHAPTER 3

1. What is one of the reasons why Gatsby is so well known in New York?

2. Why was it awkward for Nick at the party and why were their rumors being spread about Gatsby?

3. Explain this quote "He had one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life."

CHAPTER 4
1. Why was Gatsby pulled over by a cop, and what did he show him? What happens then?

2. What did Gatsby confess to Jordan?

3. Why does Gatsby want Nick to invite Daisy to tea?

The Great Gatsby Researcher for Chapters 1 & 2:

East Egg, Long Island: A city in New York in which aristocrats who have always been wealthy live in because they are fully developed and fairly rich. This is where Tom Buchanans lives with his wife Daisy. People living in East Egg are snobby, greedy, and focus a lot more on the material items that cost money.

West Egg. Long Island: A city in New York where developing individuals are working their way up to become someone wealthy. The people that habit West Egg area bit more humble since they have not been accommodated to the material items yet, and this is where Nick lives.

Setting during 1920s: Chapter one takes place in 1922 which was when the "Roaring Twenties" first began where fashion trends began to change, and women began to vote. During this time period, a group of outgoing women, the Flappers, came out to celebrate the minimum freedom they had. Most people during this era thought that the more money owned would be the path towards happiness.

The Great Gatsby- Vocabulary Enricher/Word Wizard/Illustrator

Chapter 1
1. Levity- Lightness of mind, character, or behavior; lack of appropriate seriousness or earnestness.

2. Feigned- Pretended; sham; counterfeit: feigned enthusiasm.

3. Effeminate-  (of a man or boy) having traits, tastes, habits, etc., traditionally considered feminine, as softness or delicacy.

Chapter 2
2. Incessant- adjective

continuing without interruption; ceaseless; unending: an incessant noise.

This picture shows the setting of Chapter 1 and two.  West Egg and New York.

The Great Gatsby
Discussion Questions
Chapters 1-2

1.What is the difference between East Egg and West Egg?

2. Please explain and analyze the quote "I hope she'll be a fool-that's the best thing a girl can be in the world, a beautiful little fool."

3.What does the valley of ashes symbolize?

4. What were the major events that occurred within the impromptu party?

Vocabulary Ch. 14-30

Furrows: a narrow groove made in the ground; especially by plow (channel, pathway)
Phonograph: any sound-reproducing machine using records in the form of cylinders or   discs (victrola).
etch ins: to erode a design or message into something, usually with acid
John Rabbit: American rock keyboardist 
Gasket: a compressible packing piece of paper, rubber slang: burst out in anger
Babbitt: a bearing or lining with Babbitt metal
Sullenly: showing irritation or ill humor by a gloomy silence or reserve
Shim: a thin slip or wedge of metal, wood, etc. to level out
Piston: a disk or cylinder part tightly fitting and moving within a cylinder, either to compress or move a fluid collected in the cylinder; a pump-like valve
Spool: anything round with other materials like thread
Figgers: ? ? ?
Acquaintanceship:a person with whom one has been in contact but who is not a close friend
Dispossessed:to take away possession of something, esp property; expel
Nebulous:lacking definite form, shape, or content; vague or amorphous
Shafter: tricking or cheating
Hoovervilles: a collection of huts and shacks; edge of city; housing the unemployed during the 1930s
Nondescript:lacking distinct or individual characteristics; having no outstanding features
Gunnysacking: when someone silently collects irritations and slights until "the last straw is placed on them" causing an overblown reaction
Sardonically:characterized by irony, mockery, or derision
Agrarian:of or relating to land or its cultivation or to systems of dividing landed property
Okie: a migrant worker from Oklahoma especially during the Great Depression
Destitute: lacking the means of subsistence; totally impoverished
Ginghams: a medium-weight balanced plain-woven fabric made from dyed cotton or cotton-blend yarn
Boxcar: a completely enclosed freight car

Chapters 27-30 Illustrator

Cotton Pickers were wanted, but many workers were being tricked due to the fact that they had to have a sack of their own to put the cotton in. Those who did not have one had to buy i t on credit, which resulted in leaving the workers in even more debt. The Joad family was given a boxcar to live in with another family. Both families relied on the Boxcar due to the fact that a flood began.

Chapters 25-26 Illustrator

-It is currently springtime in California, which means that the state is rich in produce. However, the migrants still faced many struggles due to the fact that the small farms could not compete with the large farming industries. The farmers had to watch their crops go to waste as well as watch their debt rise. 






- Due to the fact that the Joad family was running low in resources and supplies, the family had to leave the Weedpatch camp. Their next location for work was the peach farm. Their first day of work however, went south. The family on made one dollar, and they had to spend it immediately in order to eat dinner. 

Travel Tracer:

Chapters 14-18: The key idea at the beginning of chapters 14 and 15 is that farmers are really not wanted by those in the West since they are viewed as thieves. In Chapter 16 when Rose of Sharon claims that she will go on her own way with her husband, it sparks Ma and she turns all dramatic which is where we can see some action and we can see that the family is scared of Ma when she becomes angry. In Chapter 18. the key event is when the Joads finally reach their final destination- California- and although it should be a great relief to finally be there, only tragedies occur like Grandma's death.

Chapters 19-24: The action begins in Chapter 20 is when the Joad  family stays at Hooverville and meet Floyd Knowles which begins a riot against a contractor who does not want to give workers their rights; Tom and Casy join in to try to help  Knowles and end up hurting the contractor, so Casy decides to blame the issue on himself so he gets in trouble instead of Tom, who cannot afford to be caught since he is on probation. The major event is Chapter 21 is that landowners form armed forces to try to scare of the "Okies," so they do not come together; farmers continue to die of starvation. In Chapter 22, Tom finds out that the government forces certain corporations to pay the workers much less; he is able to find a job. At the beginning of Chapter 24, the action rises when it is established that the Farmers' Association will start the riot in hopes of shutting down the camp.

Chapters 25-30: The plot becomes tense in Chapter 25 when the landowners take the farmers' crops away leaving them with only a debt. In Chapter 26 it also becomes tense when the Joad family, who have settled in the government camp, are running out of their basic needs and have no job. Then the Joad family is happy to hear that there is employment picking peaches, so they go in hopes of getting a job, but are suddenly punched in the face to hear the wage which will only buy them scarce food even with everyone working. The action rises quickly when Tom finds Casy, after being released from jail, and kills a man that crushes Casy's skull just because he helps starved kids. The Joad family will not leave Tom alone, so they flee in hopes to find another job and sneek food to him. In Chapter 28, Tom's situation becomes tense when one of his little sisters screams out the secret that he had killed two men which could have put him in danger; Ma suggests he runs away, but he claims he is tired of running away. In Chapter 29, the rain comes down hard which halts the cotton work and makes men go crazy and steal to be able to obtain food in order to maintain alive. In Chapter 30, the atrocities continue when the rain continue for days, Rose of Sharon gives birth to a dead baby, and Pa uses up the last bit of money on food. The action begins to fall when the Joad family goes out to seek dry land and comes up to a barn with a boy and a sick man  who has not ate in days.

Chapters 21-24 Illustrator

- Due to the hostile situation in which the Okies were living in,as portrayed in Chapter 21, in Chapter 22, the Joad family found a Weedpatch Camp.These camps were self-governed by the migrants in which specific committees were created in order to maintain order. 

- Chapter 23: People spent most of their time looking for work, but when they had some free time, in the camp, they would organize music, dances, alcohol, and even sermons. 


-In Chapter 24: There was a dance occurring and the Farmer;s Association was planning to begin a riot with the intentions of shutting down the camp.

Chapters 19-20 Illustrator

Chapter 19: The narrator describes how California used to be land that belonged to Mexico. The narrator also goes on to relate the way Americans took over the land and made it their to way the "Okies," the people migrating from the Mid-West, were flooding into the land. They were viewed as dangerous to the stability of the land. 

Chapter 20: After the Joad family could not afford a proper burial for their grandma, the family returned to the Hooverville in which they were residing at. A Hoovervilles were crowded camps in which unemployed families lived. 

Chapters 16-18 Illustrator

In chapter 16, the Joad family has been traveling to California for quite some time, and they have now crossed the border into Texas, leaving Oklahoma behind. The family was currently residing in Panhandle Texas. 

 In Chapter 17, it is describe how families traveling to California would camp roadside Route 66. The narrator notes, "...when the sun went down, perhaps  twenty families and twenty cars were there." (249)

In Chapter 18, the Joad family moved westward into the mountains of New Mexico. Later on they pass through Arizona's deserts and eventually arrive to California.

Chapters 14-15 Illustrator

Here it is portrayed how families were bound to live on the side of roads, and some families even began to live in ditches. This came to be due to the fact that there was an overwhelming flood of migrants that came to California looking for work and homes. 

As the Joad family embark their journey to California, they go on Route 66. They had the opportunity to see many establishments along the roadside. Some establishments were: hamburger stands and gasoline pumps.

Summaries

Chapters 14-18

In these chapters, Steinbeck shows that the West does not understand what happened to Oklahoma and the Midwest and the citizens of western families became frightened. A waitress named Mae came off as rude, all she cared about her were money and tips, but then she soon realized that if she does something nice for someone, something nice will happen to her back. Soon after, the Joad family met a man who informed them that California doesn't provide jobs due to his trip there and how it caused the starvation and death of his wife and children. The family decides to continue their journey once they entered California because of the warning signs of danger. They were forced to move by the policemen again and Ma informed the family that Granma didn't get the medical attention she needed and past away shortly.

Chapters 19-24
In these chapters, it starts off when Steinbeck states that California was once one of Mexico's belongings until hungry American squatters took it away just because they farmed the land. It was hard for the Okies to find work because it was either paid at a low wage or many states did not want them anymore due to over flooding people. Granma's body was left in a coroner's office because Ma and Pa didn't have enough money for proper burial and then they joined the family at Hooverville. Tom's character began to change by looking toward the future and its possibilities because he become devoted to his family instead of just focusing on present possibilities only.

Chapters 25-30
In these chapters, Steinbeck indicates that small local farmers are under the rules of large landowners because of their debt rise. Supplies began to become scarce and the family has to once again move. Casy was killed because he gave information to Tom Joad and was caught by the police. They thought he was being a communist and was then killed by one of them. Work began to appear working in cotton fields, but the only problem is that workers had to pay for their own sacks. Soon after,weather conditions began to ruin the crops and no work could have been done. This had the workers' fear turned into anger. It's been six days and the rain continued.

Research/Connector Ch. 10-13

Chapter 10: 
"The Winning of Barbara Worth"
- a 1926 American Western silent film derived from the novel equally titled, "The Winning of Barbara Worth," by Harold Bell Wright. The film is about
 an engineer who competes with a local cowboy for the affections of a rancher's daughter while building an irrigation system for a Southwestern desert community.
Rose of Sharon
-Rose of Sharon outside of the novel, The Grapes of Wrath,can represent two different flowers, but for the most part it is recognized as South Korea's national flower. 
-Also, in the United States, Rose of Sharon is associated as the official flower of Phi Beta Chi, a national Lutheran-based Greek social letter sorority. 
-In Canada, Rose of Sharon is a charity that focuses on helping pregnant and parenting young women under the age of 25. 
-In the novel, Rose of Sharon is a major character: The oldest daughter in the Joad family, she is Tom Joad's sister. Throughout the novel, her character is portrayed as fragile due to her pregnancy.
Chapter 12:
Highway 66
-"Route 66 served as a major path for those who migrated west, especially during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, and it supported the economies of the communities through which the road passed. People doing business along the route became prosperous due to the growing popularity of the highway, and those same people later fought to keep the highway alive in the face of the growing threat of being bypassed by the new Interstate Highway System" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Route_66)

Discussion Questions 14-30

Discussion Questions Chapter 14-30

Vocabulary Chapters 10-13

Vocabulary Chapters 10-13