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Reading/Dialectical Journal Assignment

 

Study Guides & Practice

Introduction 

Chapter 1

Chapter 1 Practice: Narrator & Point of View 

Chapter 2

Chapter 2 Practice: Characterization 

Chapter 3

Chapter 3 Practice: Definition Extension 

Chapter 4

Chapter 4 Practice: Word Roots 

Chapter 5

Chapter 5 Practice: Analogies 

Chapter 6

Chapter 6 Practice: Figurative Language 

Chapter 7

Chapter 7 Practice: Style 

Chapter 8

Chapter 8 Practice: Tone 

Chapter 9

Chapter 9 Practice: Theme 

 

Take Home Essay Topics

Timed Writing Essay Questions

 

Having difficulty? Try a BookRags Summary.

 

 

Culture of the Jazz Age


 

Want to get up-to-date on 1920s high society?  Check out Flapper Station.

 

Prof. Nichols from Pittsburgh State has put together an award winning three part website on The Jazz Age.

 

Read up on Flapper Culture and Style and check out some fun photographs and cartoons.

 

There's always the good ol' Wikipedia entry on The Jazz Age.

 

Here's an article called "A New York Adolescence" that appeared in The New Yorker in 1940 by a fellow who remembers the desire to skip school and hit the nightclubs back in 1924, when the Jazz Age was in full swing.

 

Notes on Fitzgerald


 

Find out more about F. Scott Fitzgerald,
his literary career and soap opera personal life
at the
Fitzgerald Centenary Page 
from the University of South Carolina.

 

Here's the Wikipedia entry on Fitzgerald.