The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 Jazz Age novel about the impossibility of recapturing the past, was initially a failure. Today, the story of Gatsby’s doomed love for the unattainable Daisy is considered a defining novel of the 20th century. Check out sample lesson plans for The Great Gatsby below.
Students will use this worksheet to record answers to the questions Who? What? When? Where? and Why? for each section of Fahrenheit 451.
Students will use this worksheet to explore how the novel’s main characters treat the natural world versus how they treat technology and answer a question about how these two themes are related.
Students will use this worksheet to compare Clarisse McClellan and Mildred Montag and answer questions about what Guy Montag learns from each of these women.
Students will use this worksheet to make inferences from explicit evidence presented in Fahrenheit 451.
Students will use this worksheet to record specific words and phrases that Bradbury uses to describe each character and to determine what those descriptions reveal.