What ideas from the "Jazz Age" are relevant to us today?
Objective: Students will make connections between ideas explored in a novel and its historical context.
1. Writer's Notebook #45
2. We each completed an opinion survey about ten "big ideas" in The Great Gatsby. Then we discussed our answers as a class.
3. We watched two segments of a video about F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author of The Great Gatsby (available here and here). As we watched we each completed this worksheet.
For next time: Finish reading The Great Gatsby and complete the Character Tracer chart.
Objective: Students will make connections between ideas explored in a novel and its historical context.
1. Writer's Notebook #45
2. We each completed an opinion survey about ten "big ideas" in The Great Gatsby. Then we discussed our answers as a class.
3. We watched two segments of a video about F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author of The Great Gatsby (available here and here). As we watched we each completed this worksheet.
For next time: Finish reading The Great Gatsby and complete the Character Tracer chart.