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 review a book map, select a key scene from each section of the novel, summarize the scene, and write a short analysis of what the scene reveals.
Students will complete a chart to explore how Huxley describes happiness and connects the emotion to other themes by finding quotes in the text, noting the context of each quote, and drawing conclusions.
Students will find and analyze quotes in the text and relate them to a plot map to explore the development of John, the protagonist of Brave New World.
Students will use this worksheet to explore how Brave New World presents conflicting ideas in the World State and the Savage Reservation. Students will examine how opposing values are treated in the text and note the places they find evidence for their ideas.
Students will research historical figures and then complete this worksheet to explore how Huxley includes actual people from history in Brave New World to create humor.
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