Description
Get your learners thinking! Our PRINT AND DIGITAL The Great Gatsby Study Guide 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 and pacing guide that offer our day-by-day suggestions for planning your weeks of lessons.
Our pedagogy section explains the instructional rationale behind the activity, offers implementation ideas, and aligns it with 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 visually appealing teaching resource to introduce your learners to all the various forms of figurative language. This 140-slide Google Slides activity will help you introduce as many as you need to teach your learners at your level.
- 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-to-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 to ensure that learners who read the chapters recently ace the quiz, while learners who didn’t read recently do 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
About The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a short novel set on the East Coast of Long Island during the Jazz Age. Nick Carraway narrates the story of his mysterious neighbor, Jay Gatsby, a self-made man chasing the life he thinks he was promised. Gatsby is in love with Daisy Buchanan, who is married to Tom, and the novel moves between West Egg and East Egg as the tension builds through Gatsby’s parties, Nick’s growing doubts, and the choices made by Jordan Baker, Tom Buchanan, and Myrtle Wilson.
The book is a staple high school ELA study guide because it gives kids a lot to work with in a single reading. The American Dream, wealth, class, dreams, and identity all sit at the center of the story, and the Roaring Twenties shape how the characters act. Students can pull two or more themes from a single chapter, examine symbolism, figurative and connotative meanings, and the multiple meanings behind Fitzgerald’s specific word choices. The novel also holds up well for critical analysis of narrator reliability. Nick shapes what the reader sees and does not see, making it a strong text for teaching how central ideas develop throughout a story.
Compared to other authors on the standard high school reading list, Fitzgerald packs a lot of history, important themes, and important quotes into a short novel. That is a big part of what makes Gatsby great as a teaching text. Students can enjoy reading it, then go back and explore how the pieces fit together.
This unit is built to help you teach Gatsby in a way that respects your time. You get the tools to create a full novel study, from pre-reading to the final essay, without hunting for extra activities to fill the gaps.
Enjoy, old sport!
