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Teaching The Great Gatsby with the New York Times
East Egg, West Egg, the Valley of Ashes, and the green light. Bring Gatsby, the Jazz Age, and the American Dream to your classroom with a resource designed for teachers. Included in the treasury are six great teaching ideas for F. Scott...
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How to Throw a Party Like Gatsby
Compare the classic novel with visual adaptations in order to teach imagery, historical context, and adapting material across mediums.
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Seeing the Image in Imagery: A Lesson Plan Using Film
In our increasingly visual society, it is often difficult for some readers to create a mental picture of a picture created only with words. An image-rich text like F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby can therefore, present a real...
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The Gift of Gatsby
A reading of “Gatsby’s Green Light Beckons a New Set of Strivers,” a New York Times article by Sara Rimer, triggers a discussion of the American Dream and what it means to strive for something. Following the discussion, class members...
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Character Impressions
Whether you are planning a unit on F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, or simply want to improve your pupils' descriptive writing, this instructional activity could be a good addition to your class. Using the Six-Trait Writing...
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The "Secret Society" and FitzGerald's The Great Gatsby
"I have never been able to forgive the rich for being rich, and it has colored my entire life and works." This colored view is the focus of a close reading activity that asks readers of The Great Gatsby to examine the way Fitzgerald's...
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The Great Gatsby
This collection of worksheets covers chapters 1-9 of The Great Gatsby. Students complete a variety of assignments for each chapter including outlining, vocabulary and study questions.
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The Great Gatsby: Gonnegtions
Skip to the second page of this resource for the worksheet itself. Listed here are nine vocabulary words used in The Great Gatsby. Pupils use a dictionary to select a new word to pair with the vocabulary word provided from the novel....
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Jay Gatsby's Souvenir Scrapbook
Students create a Power Point scrapbook that compiles memorabilia representing the life of Jay Gatsby. They read the novel, "The Great Gatsby" and conduct internet research using the "American Twenties" website. In small groups, they...
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The Great Gatsby: Fun Trivia Quiz
Test your learners' knowledge of The Great Gatsby with this online interactive quiz. Each class member can receive immediate online feedback after they answer each of these ten basic multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank comprehension...
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The Diamond as Big as the Ritz Quiz
Can you imagine an entire mountain consisting of a solid diamond? It is possible, though a bit farfetched in The Diamond as Big as the Ritz by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The story is meant to be a satire about wealth and greed; the quiz asks...
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The Great Gatsby - Study Help
In this literature worksheet, students respond to 8 short answer and essay questions about Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Students may also link to an online interactive quiz on the novel at the bottom of the page.
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The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald: Study Guide - Mini Essays
In this online interactive literature worksheet, learners respond to 7 short answer and essay questions about F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Learners may check some of their answers online.
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The Great Gatsby Quiz
In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 25 multiple choice questions about F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald: Study Guide - Mini Essays
In this online interactive literature worksheet, students respond to 11 short answer and essay questions about F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise. Students may check some of their answers online.
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The Great Gatsby
Students participate in a reader's theater, adapting scenes from The Great Gatsby. In this reading comprehension lesson plan, students interpret a given scene from The Great Gatsby in a readers' theater. Students analyze the scene for...
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The Great Gatsby: Fun Trivia Quiz
If you want some ideas for a reading comprehension quiz on The Great Gatsby, you might use this as a reference; however, the significance of some of the questions is marginal. It might be useful for your class to test their own...
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The Great Gatsby: Fun Trivia Quiz
This online, interactive quiz on The Great Gatsby could be useful as a reference; however, several of the questions ask about relatively unimportant details. You may recommend that your pupils take this quiz on their own to get immediate...
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Colors and The Great Gatsby: Fun Trivia Quiz
What is the symbolic importance of certain colors? This online, interactive quiz on The Great Gatsby asks questions related to colors and their symbolism; however, it requires little analysis. For the most part, test-takers match colors...
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Tender is the Night Part 2: Fun Trivia Quiz
This online quiz may be used as a basic check for understanding, however most of the questions address unimportant factual information and require no higher-level thinking. Additionally, as anyone can make these online quizzes it may be...
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The Other Side of Paradise
Eleventh graders explore the life and writing of F. Scott Fitzgerald. They examine the youth culture of the 1920's and compare it to their own. They practice using some of the biographer's or archivist's tools for studying a person.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great American Dreamer
Young scholars explore how F. Scott Fitzgerald was one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. In novels such as Tender is the Night, This Side of Paradise, and The Great Gatsby, he captured the mood and manners of his time.
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Learning About Characters
Students explore characters as they read the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. For this characterization lesson, students discuss the characters in the novel and write an essay.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald: Winter Dreams
Students study the biography and work of F. Scott Fitzgerald. They learn how the author used autobiographical elements in writing his stories and they try a hand at writing a Fitzgerald-style story with autobiographical elements of their...