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 summarize the three major sections of the novel and analyze how each part advances the two major stories in the text.
Students will use this worksheet to review five common story elements and then map these elements in a story told in Things Fall Apart.
Students will use this worksheet to analyze Okonkwo and Nwoye, two major characters in Things Fall Apart, who have polarized values and beliefs despite being father and son.
Students will use this worksheet to analyze the use of proverbs in the text by categorizing them according to their narrative function and purpose.
Students will use this worksheet to identify foreshadowing in Things Fall Apart and analyze how Achebe uses stories to foreshadow key dramatic events that occur later in the novel.
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