• What is the American Dream?
• What contrast is there between the American dream and American reality?
• To what extent has the American Dream been realized?
• How is our understanding of culture and society constructed through and by language?
• How do authors use the resources of language to impact an audience?

The Great Gatsby
*Syntax [simple, compound, complex, compound-complex, loose/cumulative, periodic, balanced,            antithesis, juxtaposition, asyndeton, ellipsis, parallelism, polysyndeton, repetition, anaphora,         anadiplosis, epanalepsis, epistrophe, inversion, antimetabole, rhetorical question, rhetorical         fragment]
*Sentence beginning variation techniques [subject, article, adjective, adverb, prepositional phrase,         present participial phrase, past participial phrase, absolute phrase, infinitive, gerund,                     adverbial clause, postponement, noun clause, verb, conjunction, object, interjection,                 transition, predicate adjective, subordinate clause, chiasmus]
*Open-ended responses
*Embedded quotes
*Textual evidence
*TAKS Reading Strategies
*The Reflective Essay
*Research interview/presentation
*Expository reading
*Independent reading

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