SwissEduc: Fitzgerald, F. Scott: 1896

Lesson Plans
- The "Secret Society" and Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. To assert one's status in a crowd, students must learn the unwritten and unspoken codes of behavior. Their own experience of the struggle to belong can provide a starting point for an exploration of how concerns about wealth, race, geographical origins, and other factors affect the perception of social status in The Great Gatsby.
- Connotation, Character, and Color Imagery: Students explore the connotations of the colors associated with the characters in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby by tracking color imagery in the novel and then writing a character analysis based on their findings.
- Judging a Book by its Cover: The Art and Imagery of The Great Gatsby: Francis Cugat's 1925 cover art for The Great Gatsby and artwork by El Greco mentioned in the novel are the focus of prereading and postreading activities in this lesson plan. Students explore the novel's allusion to art and its use of visual imagery and conclude their study by designing their own cover for the novel.
- the Discovery Channel
- The Great Gatsby Unit from teachervision.com
- The "Secret Society" and Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby: Students' own experience of the struggle to belong can provide a starting point for an exploration of how concerns about wealth, race, geographical origins, and other factors affect the perception of social status in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.
- Collection of Lesson Plans from Georgia Dept. of Education
- The Great Gatsby and 1920s; Plan 1: Students will work as a team of writers to publish a magazine which highlights various aspects of the 1920s in America and synthesizes elements from Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby to historical events from the Jazz Age.
- The Great Gatsby and 1920s; Plan 2: Students will work in pairs and visit some web sites to give them a brief overview of America in the 1920Õs, the Jazz Age.
- Initial Project: In this activity students use PhotoShop to create artwork relating to the novel and the Roaring Twenties.
- Murder and Mayhem - The Great Gatsby: Facts behind the Fiction. Students create their own newspapers utilizing primary source materials from several American Memory collections.
Other Teaching Help
- Study Guide from Guthrie Theater in connection with the play 'The Great Gatsby' by Simon Levy (pdf format: 50 pages)
- Questions to Think About: The College of Staten Island of The City University of New York.
- Study Questions, Cornell University. (pdf)
- Discussion Questions and Extended Activities
- Download vocabulary, questions and activities (RTF file)
- Questions for chapters 4, 6, 7
- Questions while watching the movie
Quizzes
- Quizzes with online correction: easy: 1, 2, average: 1, 2, 3
Quizzes
- A game to help review important aspects of the novel.

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