Using Informational Text to Teach the Great Gatsby

This book offers challenging and engaging readings to enhance your teaching of The Great Gatsby with texts from a wide range of genres and topics to help students answer essential questions about the novel. Each informational text is part of a unit, with media links, reading strategies, vocabulary, writing activities, and class activities.

Sommario

Preface
Acknowledgements
How to Use This Book

Unit 1: Why Should We Care about Economic Inequality?
Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman: "Exploding wealth inequality in the United States" David Vandivier: "What Is The Great Gatsby Curve?"
Chapters 1, 6, and 8

Unit 2: What Is Tom Buchanan Worried about -- Is Civilization "Going to Pieces"?
Lothrop Stoddard: The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy
Kenneth L. Roberts: Why Europe Leaves Home
Chapters 1, 2, 4, 7, and 9

Unit 3: Does Money Make People, Like Tom, Mean?
Paul Piff, "Does money make you mean?" Chapters 2, 6, and 8

Unit 4: Who Is to Blame in the Black Sox Scandal and in Gatsby? "Eight White Sox Players Are Indicted on Charge of Fixing 1919 World Series; Cicotte Got $10,000 And Jackson $5,000"
Stuart Dezenhall, "Newspaper Coverage of the 1919 Black Sox Scandal"
Chapters 4 and 9

Unit 5: Everyone Is Drinking, So Why Does Prohibition Matter in Gatsby?
The National Prohibition Act
"Making a Joke of Prohibition in New York City"
Chapter 7 or any time

Writing and Discussion Rubric
About the Authors
Tables and answers for all sections are available for download on the series website: www.usinginformationaltext.org.

Info autore

Audrey Fisch is Professor of English and Coordinator of Secondary English Education at New Jersey City University where she has taught for over twenty years.

Riassunto

This book offers challenging and engaging readings to enhance your teaching of The Great Gatsby with texts from a wide range of genres and topics to help students answer essential questions about the novel. Each informational text is part of a unit, with media links, reading strategies, vocabulary, writing activities, and class activities.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Susan Chenelle, Chenelle Susan, Audrey Fisch, Audrey Chenelle Fisch, Fisch Audrey
• Editore: Rowman and Littlefield
• Lingue: Inglese
• Raccomandazione d'eta': 0 a 17 anni
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9781475831016
• ISBN: 978-1-4758-3101-6
• Pagine: 200
• Categorie: Libri per bambini e per ragazzi; Libri scolastici > Didattica > Materiali didattici, guide per l'insegnamento; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Pedagogia > Pedagogia scolastica, didattica, metodica; English, EDUCATION / Curricula, Teaching of a specific subject, Educational: English Literature, Educational: First / native language: Literature studies, Educational: Language, literature and literacy, Educational: Arts, general, Curriculum planning and development, Educational: Humanities and social sciences, general, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / Arts & Humanities, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / Reading & Phonics, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / Language Arts