What is significant about this area of America? How might the people and attitudes of this area differ from others?

Flapper style

Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald

The Jazz Age

Was this a useful approach to group work? Was it more educational than hearing information from the front of the class?

As a period what is your impression of their culture?

Does it seem to have anything in common with the world that we live in

Write 3 things that you remember about the American Dream from our work last year.

Character profile: Nick Carraway

The narrator of The Great Gatsby will obviously be a key character in the novel. We see things through his eyes, therefore it is important for us to establish what kind of a character he is, what is his background and beliefs, can he be trusted? Your first piece of work will be to write a report on Nick. This will be based on the first chapter, so you will need to make notes as we go through.

Character profile: Is Nick a reliable narrator?

Use the quotes below to begin a character profile (using the questions below as headings) on a new page of A4.

'My family have been prominent, well to do people in this Middle Western city for three generations.' 'We have a tradition that we're descended from the Dukes of Buccleuch' 'Everybody I knew was in the bond business' 'I was rather literary in college..editorials for Yale News''My house ...was squeezed between two huge places that rented for between twelve or fifteen thousand a year''the history of the summer really begins on the evening I drove over there to have dinner with the '

What background is he from?What is important to him?/What does he want us to think? What are his likes and dislikes? In what terms does he assess things that he is seeing for the first time?

Tom Daisy

Jordan

It was a body capable of enormous leverage - a cruel body.

With her chin raised a little, as she was balancing something on it which was quite likely to fall.

she laughed, an absurd, charming little laugh

Looking up into my face, promising that there was no one in the world she so much wanted to see.

She was a slender, small-breasted girl, with an errect carriage that she accentuated by throwing her body back ...

Arrange the quotes under the correct characters

What do the quotes tell us about Nick? Add detail to your character profile referring to his meeting with the others.

Homework - complete your character profile of Nick, adding further evidence to what you have been provided by my quotes. For Thursday.

'That's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool'

Are you surprised that this line was side by a woman? What does it tell us about the society that they live in?

What is their society like?

Find 5 pieces of evidence from the end of chapter one, analyse them to show your conclusions about the type of society that these characters are living in.

This must be handed in with your character profile of Nick on Friday.

Ideas page 10 - see differences of East and West as described by Nick

Nick:"To a certain temperament the situation might have been intriguing - my own instinct was to telephone immeadiately for the police"

Tom of Jordan "They oughtn´t to let her run around the country this way"

"We heard it from three people, so it must be true"

The people and the party What impression does Fitzgerald create of the people that we meet and the party?

What do you think he might wanted to say about America in the 1920s?

[she] 'became more violently affected moment by moment, and as she expandedthe room grew smaller around her, until she seemed to be revolving on a noisy creeky spirit through the smoky air'

'it's just a crazy old thing' she said 'i just slip it on sometimes when I don't care what I look like'

'It'd be more discreet to go to Europe'

'I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life'

Violence When the violence comes, what makes it more shocking? Why might Fitzgerald do this?

End of chapter 3 questions

1 What happens to a car outside Gatsby's party? Crashes in the ditch 2 How many men were in the car? two 3 Where had we met one of them before? he was the drunk in the library 4 What does Nick remember that he heard about Jordan? she had cheated in a golf competition 5 What does Nick say is a quality that you can 'never blame deeply' in a woman? dishonesty 6 What does Jordan say that it takes to make an accident? two 7 What does Nick decide that he had to do about the relationship he was having back west? break it off

Nick: "I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known."

What do you think of Nick's opinion of himself? Do you agree with him? What would you think if somebody said this to you? Does it alter the way that we should view him as narrator?

Read pages 51- to the gap on page 55. Is the picture that Gatsby paints of himself to Nick believable? Give your answer and 3 reasons why?

Links to F Scott Fitzgerald

Put the facts below in order of how strongly they affect our understanding of the events of the novel.

Zelda initially didn't want to marry Fitzgerald because of his lack of money.

Zelda was from the south of the United States an was a renowned beauty in her area

Fitzgerald and Zelda were able to marry after the success of one of his early novels.

Scott and Zelda spent some time living in France. They ran with a 'fast crowd'.

Fitzgerald did join the army, although he didn't see active service in France.

The backstory chapter 4 p60-65

1 Whose voice tells this part of the story? Might we have any reason not to trust this side of events? 2 In what ways might you interpret the complete turn around in Daisy's behaviour in the hours before she marries Tom? 3 "she said in the strangest voice..." why is Jordan's memory a good indicator of Daisy's true feelings towards Gatsby? 4 Why does Gatsby want Daisy to see his house? Does this reveal anything about him/her/their relationship/the times?

Gatsby´s dream?

What ideas can you think of why Gatsby's dream to get back together with Daisy might not work? What could go wrong?

Create a mind map of the emotions that go through Gatsby's mind as he meets Daisy again.

p76 "his count of enchanted objects had diminished by one"

p77 "there was a pink and golden billow of foamy clouds above the sea"p78 "a faint doubt had occurred to him" "no amount of freshness can challenge what a man can store up in his ghostly heart"

Mark scheme out of 25.

Chapter 6 quiz.Answers 1 One of the rumours about Gatsby is that he has an underground pipeline to where? Canada 2 What is his real name? James Gatz 3 What is the name of the old millionaire that Gatsby befriends? Dan Cody 4 Where do Tom and Gatsby meet? Gatsby's house 5 Apart from the usual characters, who do Tom and Daisy see when they go to one of Gatsby's parties? a film actress 6 How does Daisy feel about the party? Offended 7 What is Tom's explanation for how people became newly rich?Bootlegging 8 What does Gatsby want Daisy to tell Tom? 'I never loved you'

9 What does Nick say you can't repeat? the past

10 What is Gatsby looking to recover according to Nick?some idea of himself

End of chapter 6

Read from the top of page 89 to the end of the chapter and answer the following questions. 1 Do you think that Gatsby is expecting too much for Daisy to say that she never loved Tom? 2 What does Gatsby's belief in fixing the path reveal about him and his attitude to women? 3 Can you think of reasons, other than Daisy, why Gatsby might want to turn the clock back 5 years?

Myrtle's death: Character thought bubbles

With the sudden death of Myrtle write three thought bubbles for one of the characters below.

Tom Gatsby

Daisy

"I disapproved of him [Gatsby] from beginning to end." Nick, page 126 Do you believe this statement to be true? Does it add anything to our understanding of Nck as narrator?