The Great Gatsby: An Instructional Guide for Literature

Shelly Buchanan

sept 2014 · Teacher Created Materials

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Use this guide to familiarize students with this well-known novel and encourage them to connect the story with actual events and issues from the 1920s by completing fun, challenging activities and lessons. Readers will enjoy analyzing this complex literary piece and revel in the life lessons they take away from it. Analyzing story elements in multiple ways, close reading and text-based vocabulary practice, and determining meaning through text-dependent questions are just a few of the many skills students will walk away with after interacting with the rigorous and appealing cross-curricular lessons and activities in this resource. Written to support the Common Core, each activity and lesson work in conjunction with the text to teach students how to analyze and comprehend rich, complex literature.

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Shelly Buchanan, M.S. Educational Media, is a middle school librarian, educational coach, freelance writer, and Ph.D. student in library and information sciences. She previously taught middle and high school English, where she enjoyed working with students using the kid-powered reading and writing workshop model of instruction.