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Shmoop: The Great Gatsby Themes
Multiple themes are found in The Great Gatsby. This site looks at these themes and provides interesting insights about each.
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Shmoop: The Great Gatsby Quotes
Providing quotes with links to themes from the novel makes this a valuable site for greater insights into "The Great Gatsby".
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Shmoop: The Great Gatsby Characters
Read about each of the major characters in The Great Gatsby. An in-depth character analysis is provided with an additional reference to each character's time line in the novel.
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.
The Best Notes
The Best Notes: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
This is an online study guide/notes for the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.
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C Span American Writers: The Great Gatsby
A brief summary of "The Great Gatsby," by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Does not include an on-line text of the work, but does provide links to informational websites.
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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.
Utah Education Network
Uen: American Dream and the Great Gatsby
Analyze the argument in articles about the American dream.
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...
New York Times
New York Times: Books: "The Great Gatsby" (1925)
Read a contemporary review of Fitzgerald's best known novel.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: American Masters Collection: F. Scott Fitzgerald
This is a collection of videos and media galleries about F. Scott Fitzgerald and his works especially "The Great Gatsby."
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Shmoop: The Great Gatsby Plot Analysis
This excellent, brief plot summary highlights the major events in the novel as well as labeling the climax, suspense and denouement.
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Shmoop: The Great Gatsby Summary
This informative summary highlights the key points in the novel.
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Shmoop: The Great Gatsby Questions
This site provides a series of thought provoking questions that will generate interesting discussions on the novel.
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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.
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.
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Princess Daisy: Sylvia Plath's Copy of the Great Gatsby
Plath's comments on Gatsby offer insight to her character as a reader and her focuses as a writer herself.
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Alex: Character Metaphors the Great Gatsby
The students will explore characters by creating metaphors with pictures. Using a gingerbread styled template and pictures collected from magazines, clip art, or other sources, the students will paste pictures which represent specific...
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Great Gatsby Trivia Challege
A 25-question trivia game based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's book "The Great Gatsby." (External links no longer work.)
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Shmoop: The Great Gatsby: In a Nutshell
This site provides interesting background information into the 1920s when F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote the novel. Comparisons between Fitzgerald's life and the main character are also discussed.
Authors Calendar
Author's Calendar: F. Scott Fitzgerald
This site offers a detailed biography of Fitzgerald, plus a synopsis of "The Great Gatsby" and a good bibliography.
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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.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Novel Reflections on the American Dream
This is a collection of five videos of Novel Reflections on the American Dream including Fitzgerald's Gatsby, Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath," Ann Petry's "The Street," and Gish Jen's "Traditional American."
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.
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