Fitzgerald’s novel about ‘careless people’ and avarice in the modern era is an established favourite for senior students. These pre-reading research tasks introduce students to the Roaring 20s, and can be given as homework or group work. The four task sheets cover Long Island life; Prohibition; Cars; and Americans in WWI. They involve a link to useful online reading and knowledge-building questions which engage students briefly before they go on to close textual study of the novel. Teachers can differentiate the tasks for students of varying ability.
Out of date links. Limited/thin resource. Disappointed
DivingBellEducation
5 months ago
Dear jennimck, it's a shame you found this thin. One link was out of date and has now been removed. As for the limitations of the resource, my own students managed to give 30 minute presentations on the basis of each task, and found that they had to leave out a lot of material. Something which directs students to read and discuss the experience of, for example, African American or Native American soldiers in WWI, or asks them to predict the social results of a prohibition on alcohol is only going to be as thin as the teacher guiding them.
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