The Great Gatsby Stuff

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

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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.

Mr. Eldridge's Website