Resources
https://blog.prepscholar.com/the-great-gatsby-theme-love-relationships
This website is a must read for educators, who are planning to teach "The Great Gatsby." As stated previously, one of the challenges of this novel is the complexity of the relationships in this novel. This web page helps to breakdown many of the complex relationships in this book. This web page also highlights essential quotes to point out, while reading the novel. I would suggest that teachers refrain from sharing this resource with students until after the novel is scheduled to be completed and after several discussions have taken place. I suggest this because if shared beforehand, it stifles the thinking process of students. And again, the goal is to guide students, not tell them what to think. I think this is a great resource to share with students if they are summoned to write an essay on the text. |
https://literarydevices.net/a-huge-list-of-common-themes/
This website is a great resource to share with students throughout the reading and discussions of the novel. It a general list of themes that can help prompt a student's thinking process, particularly if they are struggling to identify the literary elements of a text. I would definitely recommend this list to ninth or tenth grade educators as a resource for their students, who are often new to the act of analyzing a text. Educators should just keep in mind and be sure to remind their students that this list is not complete, meaning that there are many more themes that are not featured on this list and students should not feel restricted to this list. It should only be used as a general reference.
This website is a great resource to share with students throughout the reading and discussions of the novel. It a general list of themes that can help prompt a student's thinking process, particularly if they are struggling to identify the literary elements of a text. I would definitely recommend this list to ninth or tenth grade educators as a resource for their students, who are often new to the act of analyzing a text. Educators should just keep in mind and be sure to remind their students that this list is not complete, meaning that there are many more themes that are not featured on this list and students should not feel restricted to this list. It should only be used as a general reference.
GREAT RESOURCE ALERT!!!!
I was doing some research on how exactly I could explain new money versus old money...so of course I had to check YouTube, since students tend to love videos. This video depicts old money versus new money...twenty first century style. But that's not the only reason I really like this video. Actually, there are a couple of reasons I adore this particular video...
The first reason is that it is presented by students, and who teaches students better than other students?
Second, the video is narrated by rap lyrics, rather than just everyday speech. I thought this was incredibly unique, but cheesy at the same time. I think that the cheesiness of the video will put students at ease that this is not a hard concept to understand and it will also show students just how silly this 1920s stigmatism was.
After all, when you purchase a vehicle no one asks if our paying with new money or old money, right? Ultimately, I believe that the twenty first century style version of such an old mindset will be very agreeable to students and truly help them conceptualize this idea of new money versus old money. This video would be a great way to start a lesson about this 1920s mindset and a great way to get students to try and think of real life examples of old money versus new money in today's society.
I was doing some research on how exactly I could explain new money versus old money...so of course I had to check YouTube, since students tend to love videos. This video depicts old money versus new money...twenty first century style. But that's not the only reason I really like this video. Actually, there are a couple of reasons I adore this particular video...
The first reason is that it is presented by students, and who teaches students better than other students?
Second, the video is narrated by rap lyrics, rather than just everyday speech. I thought this was incredibly unique, but cheesy at the same time. I think that the cheesiness of the video will put students at ease that this is not a hard concept to understand and it will also show students just how silly this 1920s stigmatism was.
After all, when you purchase a vehicle no one asks if our paying with new money or old money, right? Ultimately, I believe that the twenty first century style version of such an old mindset will be very agreeable to students and truly help them conceptualize this idea of new money versus old money. This video would be a great way to start a lesson about this 1920s mindset and a great way to get students to try and think of real life examples of old money versus new money in today's society.