Michael Feroce Sedu 183 Lesson Plan 11/21/13

The Great Gatsby

Subject: Literature Grade(s): 9-12 Duration: Two class Periods

Objectives
Students will be able to do the following: 1.) Adapt the themes of the novel by what the Authors intentions and drives for the novel in their opinions. 2.) Summarize and engage in what the theme of the novel represents.

Standards
Grade Level: 9-12 Subject Area: Language Arts Standard: Demonstrates a familiarity of why certain Literary works of enduring quality. Benchmarks: Demonstrates an understanding of why certain literary works may be considered classics or works of enduring quality and substance.

Enduring Understandings
1.) Understand the theme of the story 2.) Understand the plot and be able to create a summary of the novel 3.) Understand the characters of the novel

Essential Questions
1.) Explain how Fitzgerald uses setting to emphasize the differences between the social classes. 2.) In the story, Tom and Daisy are a part of the established upper class, while Gatsby is part of the class known as the new money upper class. Decide which social group you would want to belong to and explain why. 3.) Discuss what the following symbols represent in the novel: a) b) c) d) e) the valley of ashes the eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleberg the green light at the end of Daisys dock the mantle clock Daisys voice full of money

4.) Compare and contrast the characters of Tom and Gatsby 5.) Debate that The Great Gatsby illustrates the theme of The American dream being corrupted by the desire for wealth. 6.) Explain how the Great Gatsby reflects the Jazz Age. 7.) Discuss what led to the downfall of Gatsbys dream.

Evaluation
Add your comments to the feedback from the start audience, as explained above.

Procedures
1.) Introduction Teacher: Introduce or review the themes of the novel and what the themes represent. Student: should be able to give a summary of the story, while using tag lines such as he said and she stated. 2.) Teacher: Divide students into groups, and assign each group to a scene. Parts of the novel that give important or major events to the major themes of the novel are the following: Student: The dinner party Gatsby and Daisys meeting before he went to war The rendezvous between Daisy and Gatsby at his mansion The hotel scene 3.) Teacher: Before each group sets to work on its scene, go over the following principles of the novels themes. Every scene that youve selected for students to enact has a major climax and some smaller ones. Its the groups first job to figure out which parts of the scene are the high and how to emphasize them in a reading. The students in each group have to come up with what some experts refer to as a performance concept. That is, the students have to determine how many distinct, individual voices the scenes requires how these voices should blend and how these voices should contrast: Should there, for example, be a separate voice for each character in the scene, or will one person read the lines of more than one character? Along the same lines, the students in each group must decide

how to handle the narrator: Will just one student read Nicks narration, or will several. On top of that the students will have to give symbolic of the different scenes listed above. 4.) Students in each group will need to produce one or more versions of its script. Then they will need rehearsal time and space as well. When students in a group are ready, make sure they have the time they need to perform. Consider having members of the audience take notes about each theme and symbolic references of the different themes, commenting on some of common similarities and differences of the groups.

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Materials
For this lesson, you will need o F. Scott Fitzgeralds novel The Great Gatsby o Desktop/Laptop o Inspiration Software

Adaptations
ELL: Instead of expecting a full blown summary of what each group interpreted the theme was , ask individual to pick a self-contained bit of Nicks narration as well as the authors, and get into the character of Nick. But, in this adaptation, younger students are not being called to interact with classmates.

Evaluation

Add your comments to the feedback from the start audience, as explained above.