The Great Gatsby at KS5

This unit contains everything you need to make The Great Gatsby fun, exciting and relevant to the students’ world. It includes 21 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson PowerPoints, contextual information, exemplar material, IWB interactive resources, quizzes, extracts and critical articles. Page numbers refer to the Wordsworth Classics edition. The lessons focus on a different chapter and aspect of Gatsby, such as:

Lesson 1: The American Dream
Lesson 2: Gatsby contextual research
Lesson 3: 1920s research
Lesson 4: Alternative titles and the epigraph
Lesson 5: East Egg vs West Egg
Lesson 6: A Superficial Society
Lesson 7: Comparing Jordan, Daisy and Myrtle
Lesson 8: The Outsider
Lesson 9: Conspicuous Consumption
Lesson 10: The Great Gatsby Debate
Lesson 11: Illusion and Reality
Lesson 12: Analysing structure
Lesson 13: Themes, symbols and motifs
Lesson 14: Idealism and Romanticism
Lesson 15: James Gatz
Lesson 16: Analysing Daisy
Lesson 17: Daisy and Tom
Lesson 18: Religious references
Lesson 19: Gatsby’s funeral
Lesson 20: The Ending
Lesson 21: The Outsider
Lesson 22: Desire