Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: American Literature: The Great Gatsby: The Roaring Twenties
This lesson focuses on the Roaring Twenties, an era of great economic growth, widespread prosperity, and new technologies. This is era featured in The Great Gatsby; it began at the end of WWI and ended with the Stock Market crash in...
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: The "Secret Society" and Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby"
Excellent and detailed lesson on Fitzgerald's Great Gatsby. Discusses and includes higher-level thinking skills such as the desire to belong, with relevance to students.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Judging a Book by Its Cover Art and Imagery of the Great Gatsby
Contains plans for four or five lessons that relate the cover art and a painting referenced within the text to the content of "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Connotation, Character, and Color Imagery in "The Great Gatsby"
Contains plans for lessons that examine the use of color in "The Great Gatsby." After studying the book, students write character analysis papers discussing the colors associated with the characters. In addition to objectives and...
TES Global
Blendspace: Before We Read the Great Gatsby
Follow twelve links to videos, websites, images, and activities to prepare you for reading The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
TES Global
Blendspace: The Great Gatsby Chapter 2
A fifteen-part learning module with links to images, websites, texts, videos, and websites to use while reading chapter 2 of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.
TES Global
Blendspace: The Great Gatsby
A seventeen-part learning module with links to images, texts, websites, and videos to use while reading F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.
TES Global
Blendspace: The Great Gatsby
A six-part learning module with links to images and websites about The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: The Great Gatsby
Very detailed lesson plans for teaching the novel. Includes audio links for the pronunciation of vocabulary words, discussion questions, and classroom activities.
HotChalk
Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: "The Great Gatsby" 1920s Project
This is a lesson plan resource in which pupils create a classroom magazine straight from the 1920s to enhance and expand understanding of The Great Gatsby.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: The Great Gatsby Classroom Activity
A classroom activity/lesson plan for students who have completed reading Fitzgerald's classic novel. Provides discussion questions, lesson plans, web links, and a bibliography. From April 10, 2007.
Library of Congress
Loc: The Great Gatsby: Primary Sources From the Roaring Twenties
In order to appreciate historical fiction, students need to understand the factual context and recognize how popular culture reflects the values, mores, and events of the time period. Since a newspaper records significant events and...
TES Global
Blendspace: Great Gatsby Chapter 6
A seventeen-part learning module with links to images, texts, images, videos, and quizzes to use while reading chapter 6 of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Discover more about the book the"Great Gatsby," by F. Scott Fitzgerald when you visit this resource. This site provides links to biographical information, lesson plans, activities, vocabulary and more.
TES Global
Blendspace: Gatsby: Jazz, Prohibition, Flappers, Segregation, and Industry
A seventeen-part learning module with links to videos, websites, and images to use while reading F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Background vs. Integral Setting
This lesson compares background (settings that do not affect the story) and integral settings (the story depends on the setting to make sense).