"To the natural philosopher there is no natural object unimportant or trifling…a soap bubble…an apple…a pebble…He walks in the midst of wonders." John Herschel, A Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy (1830)
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Homework for Wednesday, Jan. 11
Read and annotate pp. 80-145 of Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Pay attention to how characters' personae change over the course of this section and how that might affect the way they address rhetorical situations. You do not have a writing assignment, but you will have a quiz. The quiz will test your memory and comprehension of the reading (who did what and why did they do it) and your ability to rhetorically analyze a passage from it.