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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: 8th – 12th
TOTAL: 166 slides/pages
→ Based off the 2004 Scribner Trade Paperback Edition
→ Pacing Guide and Answer Keys included
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LITERATURE PLAN 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
→ Easy to differentiate for different learning levels: Honors, 2nd
language learners, and Sped
★ Intro Notes Background Prezi (→ print : → digital)
– 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 (→ print : → digital)
– 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
★ Pre-reading Bias Intro Activity (→ print : → digital)
– answer thematic questions to get students thinking about the novel
– 11-page/slide activity
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2
★ Plot Chart Analyzer Diagram Arc (→ print : → digital)
– analyze the 6 parts of the plot
– 1-page analyzer & Answer Key
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2
★ Conflict Graphic Analyzer – 6 Types of Conflict (→ print : → digital)
– Students analyze the 6 different types of conflict in stories
– 2-page analyzer & Answer Key
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2
★ Characters Analyzer (→ print : → digital)
– analyze the main characters using novel quotes
– 5-page analyzer
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3
★ Settings Analyzer (→ print : → digital)
– analyze the main settings using novel quotes
– 2-page analyzer
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2
★ Symbols Analyzer (→ print : → digital)
– Students analyze the 6 different symbols in the story
– 8-page analyzer
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2
★ Journal – Quickwrite Writing Prompts (→ print : → digital)
– 1/2 writing assignments to spur much deeper conversational thinking
– 35-question slideshow
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1
★ Figurative Language Instructional Slideshow (→ print : → digital)
– 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 70+ slide slideshow 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 (→ print : → digital)
– analyze and complete 65 figures of speech specific to the novel
– 10-page bundle (2 parts)
– Similes, Metaphors, Idioms, Hyperboles, Analogies, Personification, Onomatopoeia, Puns, Symbols
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4
★ 9 Comprehension Pop Quizzes (→ print : → digital)
– a 5-question pop quiz per chapter
– 18-slide slideshow
– The purpose of these is so students who read the chapters recently would ace the quiz and students who didn’t read recently would not do well.
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.10
★ 9 Comprehension Pop Quizzes Printouts (→ print : → digital)
– 18-page bundle
– The purpose of these is so students who read the chapters recently would ace the quiz and students who didn’t read recently would not do well.
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.10
★ Vocabulary List and Quiz Assessment (→ print : → digital)
– 150 vocabulary words from the novel
– five 30-question lists & quizzes
– 20-page Bundle includes list of words, quiz, and answer keys
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4
★ Essay and Speech (→ print : → digital)
– 3 response to literature essay options for students to choose from; optional delivery of essay as a speech
– Includes essay topics and speech grading rubrics
– 6-page bundle
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.1
★ Movie vs. Novel Comparison (→ print : → digital)
– 2-page Activity
– Students compare & contrast the movie and novel
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7
Enjoy, old sport!
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OTHER GREAT GATSBY GLITZ
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