Description
Get your learners thinking! Our PRINT AND DIGITAL The Great Gatsby Novel Study Unit Plan has the activities and quizzes you need to teach a 7-week novel study — prereading questions, characters, vocabulary, writing, and more. You’ll love the “print-and-go” activities in slideshow and .pdf, AND the same fun activities converted and optimized for digital learning (512+ pages, slides, & forms for all your print and digital teaching needs).
⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ And don’t forget the easy-grade Google Forms!
Your learners will enjoy the rigor and creativity of our engaging activities built from best teaching practices. We want to make your lesson planning journey easy, so you can focus on your expertise. This novel study includes a curriculum map pacing guide that offers our day-by-day suggestion for how to plan out your weeks of lessons.
Our pedagogy section explains the instructive idea behind the activity, gives ideas for implementation, and aligns it to the standards. We’ve filmed some training videos on (1) how to assemble a Novel Analysis Packet that is unique to the academic needs of your learners and (2) how to effectively use our Quickwrite writing prompts.
TEXT: THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald
LEVEL: 9th – 11th
TOTAL: 512+ combined slides/pages/forms in novel study unit
→ Based off the 2004 Scribner Trade Paperback Edition
→ Pacing Guide and Suggested Answer Keys included
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THE GREAT GATSBY – NOVEL STUDY CONTENTS
→ Suggested timeline of how a teacher could plan out the unit
→ Detailed explanations of the goals of each activity and how to conduct the activities
→ Meets Common Core Standards (CCSS novel unit). Easy TEKS conversion.
→ Easy to differentiate for different learning levels: Honors, 2nd language learners, and Sped
➡️ ➡️ ➡️ BEFORE READING
★ Pre-reading Bias Intro Activity
– answer thematic questions to get students thinking about the novel
– 24 pages & Google slides
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1,2
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.1
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.1
★ Intro Notes Background Prezi
– background into what was happening in the world around Gatsby and the Prohibition Era
– 14-slide Prezi
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9
★ Google Earth Introduction Tour
– West Egg, East Egg, Long Island Sound, and the green light at the end of the pier…they even get to see some of it in 3D zoomed in to the
street view. It’s rockin awesome.
– 8-location 3D tour across Manhattan
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9
➡️ ➡️ ➡️ DURING READING
★ Plot Chart Analyzer Diagram Arc
– analyze the 6 parts of the plot
– 10 pages & Google slides (suggested answer key included)
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2
★ Conflict Graphic Analyzer – 6 Types of Conflict
– analyze the 6 different types of conflict in stories
– 7 pages & Google slides (suggested answer key included)
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2
★ Characters Analyzer
– analyze the main characters using novel quotes
– 20 pages & Google slides
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3
★ Settings Analyzer
– analyze the main settings using novel quotes
– 4 pages & Google slides
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2
★ Symbols Analyzer
– analyze the 6 different symbols in the story
– 16 pages & Google slides
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2
★ Journal – Quickwrite Writing Prompts
– 1/2 writing assignments to spur much deeper conversational thinking
– 79 pages, slides, & Google slides
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1
★ Figurative Language Instructional Slideshow
– We set out to make the most helpful, most compelling, most graphically attractive teaching resource for you to introduce your learners to all the various figurative language. This 140 slide & Google slides activity will help you introduce how every many you need to teach your level of
learners.
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7
★ Figurative Language Activity
– analyze and complete 65 figures of speech specific to the novel
– 22 pages, Google slides, & easy grade Google forms
– Similes, Metaphors, Idioms, Hyperboles, Analogies, Personification, Onomatopoeia, Puns, Symbols
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4
★ 9 Comprehension Pop Quizzes
– a 5-question pop quiz per chapter
– 83 pages, slides, Google slides, & Google forms
– The purpose of these is so learners who read the chapters recently would ace the quiz and learners who didn’t read recently would not do well.
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.10
★ Vocabulary List and Quiz Assessment
– 150 vocabulary words from the novel
– five 30-question lists & quizzes
– 50 pages, Google slides, & Google forms (suggested answer key included)
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4
➡️ ➡️ ➡️ AFTER READING
★ Essay and Speech
– 3 response to literature essay options for learners to choose from; optional delivery of essay as a speech
– Includes essay topics and speech grading rubrics
– 10 pages & Google slides
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1,2,3
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.1,9
– CCSS.ELA-SpeakingListening.SL.1,4,6
★ Movie vs. Novel Comparison Activity
– 4 pages & Google slides
– compare & contrast the movie and novel
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7
Enjoy, old sport!
