Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Wednesday, September 24

Target: to practice digging deeper into a text by asking questions that invite conversation and debate.


  1. Rereading chapter 7 with your group, find the most important passages to reread:
  2. What are they?
  • Nick forgets his birthday:  "It was seven o'clock...." page 143
  • Nick enters the Buchanan house for lunch:  "The room, shadowed well with awnings..."
  • Tom's reaction to Myrtle's death:  "
  • The description of Myrtle's dead body: "Michaelis and this man reached her first..."
  • The fight scene in the hotel..."Even now I couldn't say that I loved Tom...
  • Daisy's daughter is introduced:  "Bless-ed precious...."
  • Scene at Wilson's place on the way to the city: "There is no confusion...."
  • Myrtle sees Tom from above and thinks Jordan is Daisy
  • Nick peeps in the window of Buchanan kitchen towards the end of the evening
  • The departure for the city
  • The weather


  1. As a group, ask a text-specific question about the diction, detail, syntax or tone of one of the passages here and then answer one as well! (not your own, please)
  2. See EYES padlet http://goo.gl/W0u5ph...any new insights?
Homework: Fill out this Socratic Seminar prep sheet for chapter 8.  The first column only....both claim and evidence!

Chapter 9 for Friday...just FYI.


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