Prompt:  The only compliment Nick ever paid to Gatsby

Now that you are finished reading the great American novel, please write about this detail from chapters 8 and/or 9 and how that one detail helps your understanding – your understanding of a character, of the plot, of the use of point of view, of the message of the book, etc.  Be explicit in your explanation of how and why it helps.  You should consider the end of the book, but by all means, use the rest of it as well!!!

Plan your writing carefully, and also take care with your citations and their format.  Your work may be brief, perhaps only two or three paragraphs.  However, please be certain that you have something meaningful to say and that you’ve backed up your ideas with specific, relevant material from the text. 

Prompt:  The absence of any final meeting or conversation between Nick and Daisy

Now that you are finished reading the great American novel, please write about this detail from chapters 8 and/or 9 and how that one detail helps your understanding – your understanding of a character, of the plot, of the use of point of view, of the message of the book, etc.  Be explicit in your explanation of how and why it helps.  You should consider the end of the book, but by all means, use the rest of it as well!!!

Plan your writing carefully, and also take care with your citations and their format.  Your work may be brief, perhaps only two or three paragraphs.  However, please be certain that you have something meaningful to say and that you’ve backed up your ideas with specific, relevant material from the text. 

Prompt:  The change in seasons over the scope of the novel

Now that you are finished reading the great American novel, please write about this detail from chapters 8 and/or 9 and how that one detail helps your understanding – your understanding of a character, of the plot, of the use of point of view, of the message of the book, etc.  Be explicit in your explanation of how and why it helps.  You should consider the end of the book, but by all means, use the rest of it as well!!!

Plan your writing carefully, and also take care with your citations and their format.  Your work may be brief, perhaps only two or three paragraphs.  However, please be certain that you have something meaningful to say and that you’ve backed up your ideas with specific, relevant material from the text. 

 Prompt:  The eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg

Now that you are finished reading the great American novel, please write about this detail from chapters 8 and/or 9 and how that one detail helps your understanding – your understanding of a character, of the plot, of the use of point of view, of the message of the book, etc.  Be explicit in your explanation of how and why it helpxs.  You should consider the end of the book, but by all means, use the rest of it as well!!!

Plan your writing carefully, and also take care with your citations and their format.  Your work may be brief, perhaps only two or three paragraphs.  However, please be certain that you have something meaningful to say and that you’ve backed up your ideas with specific, relevant material from the text. 

 Prompt:  Some detail from the opening pages of the novel as it connects to the ending

Now that you are finished reading the great American novel, please write about this detail from chapters 8 and/or 9 and how that one detail helps your understanding – your understanding of a character, of the plot, of the use of point of view, of the message of the book, etc.  Be explicit in your explanation of how and why it helps.  You should consider the end of the book, but by all means, use the rest of it as well!!!

Plan your writing carefully, and also take care with your citations and their format.  Your work may be brief, perhaps only two or three paragraphs.  However, please be certain that you have something meaningful to say and that you’ve backed up your ideas with specific, relevant material from the text. 

Prompt:  The phrase “took her” on page 156 (and try to be mature with this one, okay!!?)

Now that you are finished reading the great American novel, please write about this detail from chapters 8 and/or 9 and how that one detail helps your understanding – your understanding of a character, of the plot, of the use of point of view, of the message of the book, etc.  Be explicit in your explanation of how and why it helps.  You should consider the end of the book, but by all means, use the rest of it as well!!!

Plan your writing carefully, and also take care with your citations and their format.  Your work may be brief, perhaps only two or three paragraphs.  However, please be certain that you have something meaningful to say and that you’ve backed up your ideas with specific, relevant material from the text. 

 Prompt:  The schedule in the front of Gatsby’s book from his childhood

Now that you are finished reading the great American novel, please write about this detail from chapters 8 and/or 9 and how that one detail helps your understanding – your understanding of a character, of the plot, of the use of point of view, of the message of the book, etc.  Be explicit in your explanation of how and why it helps.  You should consider the end of the book, but by all means, use the rest of it as well!!!

Plan your writing carefully, and also take care with your citations and their format.  Your work may be brief, perhaps only two or three paragraphs.  However, please be certain that you have something meaningful to say and that you’ve backed up your ideas with specific, relevant material from the text. 

  Prompt:  Nick’s refusal to shake hands with Tom

Now that you are finished reading the great American novel, please write about this detail from chapters 8 and/or 9 and how that one detail helps your understanding – your understanding of a character, of the plot, of the use of point of view, of the message of the book, etc.  Be explicit in your explanation of how and why it helps.  You should consider the end of the book, but by all means, use the rest of it as well!!!

Plan your writing carefully, and also take care with your citations and their format.  Your work may be brief, perhaps only two or three paragraphs.  However, please be certain that you have something meaningful to say and that you’ve backed up your ideas with specific, relevant material from the text.