The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Reading Schedule for The Great Gatsby:
Chapter:
Chapter 1 (1-21)
Due Date:
Monday, 11/2
Chapter 2 (23-38)
Wednesday, 11/4
Chapter 3 (39-59)
Friday, 11/6
Chapter 4 (61-80)
Tuesday, 11/10
Chapter 5-6 (81-111)
Friday, 11/13
Chapter 7 (113-145)
Tuesday, 11/17
Chapter 8-9 (147-180)
Thursday, 11/19
HW/Focus for Discussion:
Pick out ten lines dealing with
characterization of the five
characters in Gatsby’s first
chapter: Jordan, Nick, Daisy, Tom,
and Gatsby.
Find three literary devices and
articulate their function in the text.
When writing your found poem,
please focus on capturing the
tone of this chapter.
Focus on the contrast in Gatsby
(truth vs. rumor).
Write a thesis for Gatsby.
Focus on symbols/motifs and what
they represent.
Focus on the acts of carelessness
in the text. What is the larger
message?
Focus on the victims in the text.
Include and explain how each
character is a victim of something.
Finish proving your thesis.
Assignments for The Great Gatsby:
 Actively read assigned chapters, complete homework, and prepare for
in-class discussions.
 Write a found poem for each chapter. Each found poem must be at least
ten lines, use words and phrases from the chapter, and summarize the
chapter’s main ideas.
 Define vocabulary for each chapter.
 Notes on the Roaring Twenties (The Automobile, Prohibition, Youth and
Wealth, Race, and Harlem Renaissance and the Jazz Age).
 Notes on theme, symbol, and motif.
 Complete all Anchor Assignments related to The Great Gatsby.
Major Projects for The Great Gatsby:
 Using your found poems, write an original poem that meets the following
requirements:
o Convey a summary of the novel.
o Begin with a statement (belonging to you, the author, or a
character) that introduces the ideas of the novel.
o End with a statement (belonging to you, the author, or a
character) that brings the poem to a conclusion.
o Use both Fitzgerald’s words as well as your own; you should flow
seamlessly between the two.
o Be consistent with the novel’s tone(s) and theme(s).
o In your poem, take a stand in some way about the text, the
characters, the theme(s), and/or the 1920s.
 Timed Writing #3 and Timed Writing #4
Vocabulary for The Great Gatsby
Chapter 1
1. anon (adv):
2. complacent (adj):
3. conscientious (adj):
4. extemporizing (v):
5. feign (v):
6. fractious (adj):
7. hulking (adj):
8. incredulous (adj):
9. infinite (adj):
10. intimation (v):
11. languidly (adj):
12. peremptory (adj):
13. reciprocal (adj):
14. supercilious (adj):
15. wan (adj):
Chapter 2
1. apathetic (adj):
2. clad (adj):
3. contiguous (adj):
4. cower (v):
5. deft (adj):
6. ectoplasm (n):
7. facet (n):
8. hauteur (n):
9. imply (v):
10. incessant (adj):
11. interpose (v):
12. languid (adj):
13. saunter (v):
14. strident (adj):
Chapter 3
1. ascertain (v):
2. cataracts (n):
3. constrained (v):
4. cordial (adj):
5. corpulent (adj.):
6. din (n):
7. echolalia (n):
8. erroneous (adj):
9. impetuous (adj):
10. innuendo (n):
11. malevolence (adj):
12. permeate (v):
13. prodigality (n):
14. provincial (adj):
15. staid (adj):
16. vacuous (adj):
17. vehement (adj):
Chapter 4
1. denizen (n):
2. divine retribution (n):
3. elicit (v):
4. fluctuate (v):
5. jaunty (adj):
6. olfactory (adj):
7. punctilious (adj):
8. rajah (n):
9. sporadic (adj):
10. valor (n):
Chapter 5
1. defunct (adj):
2. ecstatic (adj):
3. exult (v):
4. harrowed (v):
5. hulking (adj):
6. innumerable (adj):
7. nebulous (adj):
8. obstinate (adj):
9. reproach (v):
10. rout (n):
11. serf (n):
Chapter 6
1. antecedent (n):
2. debauch (n):
3.
desolate (adj):
4. dilatory (adj):
5. elusive (adj):
6. euphemism (n):
7. ingratiate (v):
8. insidious (adj):
9. laudable (adj):
10. meretricious (adj):
11. perturb (n):
12. proximity (n):
13. repose (n):
14. septic (adj):
15. turgid (adj):
Chapter 7
1. abrupt (adj):
2. caravansary (n):
3. dilatory (adj):
4. formidable (adj):
5. insistent (adj):
6. irreverent (adj):
7. lapse (n):
8. meretricious (adj):
9. portentous (adj):
10. precipitately (v):
11. prig (n):
12. rancor (n):
13. tentative (adj):
14. truculent (adj):
15. tumult (n):
16. vicarious (adj):
Chapter 8
1. conceivable (adj):
2. divot (n):
3. forlorn (adj):
4. fortuitously (adv):
5. garrulous (adj):
6. grail (n):
7. humidor (n):
8. in cahoots (phrase):
9. incoherent (adj):
10. indiscernible (adj):
11. laden (adj):
12. pervading (v):
13. redolent (adj):
14. settee (n):
Chapter 9
1. adventitious (adj):
2. borne (v):
3. ceaselessly (adv):
4. commensurate (adj):
5. complacent (adj):
6. derange (v):
7. elocution (n):
8. pasquinade (n):
9. subtle (adj):
10. superfluous (adj):
11. surmise (v):
12. transitory (adj.):
13. unutterable (adj):
The 1920s
The Automobile
Prohibition
Youth and Wealth
Harlem Renaissance and the Jazz Age
Race
Theme
Topic:
Carelessness and Hollowness
of the Upper Class
Social Class and the American
Dream
Race/Discrimination
Theme:
Support from the text:
Symbols and Motifs
Symbol/Motif:
The Green Light (symbol)
The Valley of Ashes (symbol)
The Eyes of Doctor TJ Eckelburg (symbol)
Geography (motif)
Weather (motif)
Support from text:
Supporting a Thesis Statement
Thesis:
Support from the text:
Chapter One (due 11/2)
Found Poem:
Notes:
Chapter Two (due 11/4)
Found Poem:
Notes:
Chapter Three (due 11/6)
Found Poem:
Notes:
Chapter Four (due 11/10)
Found Poem:
Notes:
Chapter Five (due 11/13)
Found Poem:
Notes:
Chapter Six (due 11/13)
Found Poem:
Notes:
Chapter Seven (due 11/17)
Found Poem:
Notes:
Chapter Eight (due 11/19)
Found Poem:
Notes:
Chapter Nine (due 11/19)
Found Poem:
Notes: