Summary: Extensively researched, photocopiable material that can be used as the basis of delivering lessons, for student research and preparation, for follow-up homework, or as cover work in the case of teacher absence. Includes a free CD with the text of the pack and additional resources.
Photocopiable resources to save the busy literature teacher hours of preparation time Provide an invaluable source of thoroughly researched material Create opportunties for a more student-centered learning approach Improve and enhance student knowledge and appreciation of set texts Provide a solution to specialist staff absence
Photocopiable resources to save the busy literature teacher hours of preparation time
Provide an invaluable source of thoroughly researched material
Create opportunties for a more student-centered learning approach
Improve and enhance student knowledge and appreciation of set texts
Provide a solution to specialist staff absence
Table of Contents: ContextsLife and works of F. Scott FitzgeraldAmerica before the First World WarPostwar AmericaNew York CityChronologyLiterary contextCritical historyActivitiesIntroductionThe narrative voice: Nick CarrawayJay Gatsby: man and myth‘The trouble with Daisy’Other female charactersWho killed Gatsby?Plotting events before spring 1922Plotting the narrativeNarrative techniqueStylistic varietySymbolismSymbolic settingsEast and WestImageryLightColourMap activityThemes: ReligionThemes: Repeating the pastFilm activityAssessment focusSpecifications and objectivesEssay questionsSample questions with notesResourcesCharacter notesChapter summaries with commentaryUseful quotationsGlossaryLiterary terms and conceptsSelected literary criticismExtracts from Fitzgerald’s writingsFurther study‘On the road’ by Bernard O’Keeffe‘The colour of meaning in The Great Gatsby’ by Kevin Rea‘Reading The Great Gatsby as a Modernist novel’ by Mike Peters‘All men are [not] created equal’ by Claire StocksCD-ROM contentsPDFs of text of packHyperlinked Further study resourcesImagesMap of New York: Central ManhattanMap of New York: Long Island SoundPowerPoint presentationThe Jazz Age (Please have the sound switched on during this slide show)TextsPreface to Conrad’s Nigger of the NarcissusBenjamin Franklin’s schedule
About the Author(s): Anne Crow has taught A-level English literature for more than 30 years, and is an experienced examiner. She also writes regularly for The English Review, also published by Phiip Allan Updates.
