Gatsby Background Information

March 6, 2018

Standard: 

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.5
Analyze how an author's choices concerning how to structure specific parts of a text (e.g., the choice of where to begin or end a story, the choice to provide a comedic or tragic resolution) contribute to its overall structure and meaning as well as its aesthetic impact.

EQ: Analyze how Fitzgerald's choices contribute to the overall structure and meaning of the Great Gatsby.

Starter: 

Great Gatsby Pre-Assessment

Answer all four questions in the form honestly. 

Vocabulary: 

 Word: Structure

Part of Speech: Noun

        Dictionary Definition: the arrangement of and relations between the parts or elements of something complex.Your Definition:             Activity: Find an image associated with this word. 
        
             Activity: 

1.  Benchmark Remediation 

We will review these three questions together. 

Remediation has been posted in usatestprep as 1 remediation 2/26.

This should be completed by next Monday. 

                2.   Building Background Knowledge

                You will be divided into 5 different groups.

          Each group will be in charge of researching a major contributing factor to the setting and story of the Great Gatsby.

                The Jazz Age
               Jazz Standards The Roaring Twenties
            Prohibition

          History 

          Smithsonian

            The New Woman

           DigitalHistory

          USHistory

             World War I

       History 

  CNN

Modernism
Bright Hub Education 
Pen and the Pad

       You will present this information to the class.

      Include a minimum of at least 10 facts about your topic.

  A video that supports your topic.

      A few photos that represent your topic. 

 3.  Presentations

            You are expected to create an engaging presentation to share with the class.

            While each of you present write down 3 facts about the topic.

          You may put these on a sheet of paper or in your Google Drive.

             Closure: 

       On a scale of 1-10 how excited are you to read the Great Gatsby?

           Explain. 

        Homework      Read The Great Gatsby, Chapter One