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The Great Gatsby. ~The Transformation from Gatz to Gatsby~. Synopsis Video:. http://www.sparknotes.com/sparknotes/video/gatsby. Group Discussion:. In your table groups discuss everything you know about Jay Gatsby. You will be sharing your discussion with the class. Directions:.
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The Great Gatsby ~The Transformation from Gatz to Gatsby~
Synopsis Video: • http://www.sparknotes.com/sparknotes/video/gatsby
Group Discussion: • In your table groups discuss everything you know about Jay Gatsby. • You will be sharing your discussion with the class.
Directions: • We will read pages 98-101 carefully, starting with the paragraph that begins, “James Gatz – that was really, or at least legally, his name.” • Identify the major events, places, and people that make up the life history of James Gatz. List these. • For each event or period, create a picture, symbol or object that identifies or symbolizes that particular incident. Include the years and months if possible. • Create a timeline or diagram that illustrates this sequence of events. You can complete a rough draft in class. A final, clear, and colourful draft will be due in the following classes.
Order of Events: • - Works on a farm with his family in North Dakota • - Dreams of a wealthy life and having expensive things • - Works as fisherman on Lake Superior • - Attends St. Olaf’s College paying tuition by working as a janitor, later drops out • - Returns to working as a fisherman on Lake Superior • Meets Dan Cody, begins sailing and working with him. Cody acts as a mentor for Gatsby while he continues planning how he can become rich • Dan Cody dies, Gatsby is left an inheritance of $25,000 but never receives it because Cody’s ex-wife takes it all • Gatsby is penniless again and at this time enlists in the army • Meets Daisy in Louisville while training at Camp Taylor • Goes overseas to fight in the War • Returns to America, meets Meyer Wolfsheim, begins living in New York and working in the bootlegging business
A Helpful Website: • http://www.nhcs.k12.in.us/staff/bbigham/The%20Great%20Gatsby/Timeline.pdf
Directions: • Read pages 116-117 in pairs, silently or orally and then discuss and write your answers to the questions below. • What is your first reaction to this scene? What prompts this reaction? • What are Nick’s and Gatsby’s opinions about time and “repeating the past”? • Which side of this issue do you most agree with? Why? • What do their attitudes about the past suggest about their current relationships? • At this point in the novel, how would you characterize the following relationships? (How do these people feel about each other? Are the attachments strong or weak? • What does the future of the relationship look like to you? Explain.) (a) Gatsby and Daisy, (b) Daisy and Tom, (c) Tom and Myrtle, (d) Nick and Jordan