1. { Cultural Context of The Great Gatsby American Lit Week 6 The Great Gatsby & Research

2.  Turn in 1920s scavenger hunt to 3 rd PERIOD BASKET.  Turn in Do Nows to US MAIL BOX.  If you did not get a novel &study guide ask me during this process for one. Am Lit DO NOW 2/17/15

3.  Students will learn about some of the main characters and settings for The Great Gatsby.  Students know they are successful when they use textual evidence to answer general comprehension questions from chapter 1. Success today means 2/17

4.  Understanding the times helps to understand the novel Introduction

5.  World War I ended in 1918.  Disillusioned because of the war, the generation that fought and survived has come to be called “the lost generation.” World War I

6.  While the sense of loss was readily apparent among expatriate American artists who remained in Europe after the war, back home the disillusionment took a less obvious form.  America seemed to throw itself headlong into a decade of madcap behavior and materialism, a decade that has come to be called the Roaring Twenties. The Roaring Twenties

7.  The era is also known as the Jazz Age, when the music called jazz, promoted by such recent inventions as the phonograph and the radio, swept up from New Orleans to capture the national imagination.  Improvised and wild, jazz broke the rules of music, just as the Jazz Age thumbed its nose at the rules of the past. The Jazz Age

8.  Among the rules broken were the age-old conventions guiding the behavior of women. The new woman demanded the right to vote and to work outside the home.  Symbolically, she cut her hair into a boyish “bob” and bared her calves in the short skirts of the fashionable twenties “flapper.” The New Woman

9.  Another rule often broken was the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution, or Prohibition, which banned the public sale of alcoholic beverages from 1919 until its appeal in 1933.  Speak-easies, nightclubs, and taverns that sold liquor were often raided, and gangsters made illegal fortunes as bootleggers, smuggling alcohol into America from abroad. Prohibition

10.  Another gangland activity was illegal gambling.  Perhaps the worst scandal involving gambling was the so- called Black Sox Scandal of 1919, in which eight members of the Chicago White Sox were indicted for accepting bribes to throw baseball’s World Series. Gambling

11.  The Jazz Age was also an era of reckless spending and consumption, and the most conspicuous status symbol of the time was a flashy new automobile.  Advertising was becoming the major industry that it is today, and soon advertisers took advantage of new roadways by setting up huge billboards at their sides.  Both the automobile and a bizarre billboard play important roles in The Great Gatsby. The Automobile

12.  How has the reception changed over the decades? Critical Overview of the Novel

13.  While fellow writers praised Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, critics offered less favorable reviews. The 1920s

14.  The Baltimore Evening Sun called the plot “no more than a glorified anecdote” and the characters “mere marionettes.”  The New York Times called the book “neither profound nor durable.”  The London Times saw it as “undoubtedly a work of great promise” but criticized its “unpleasant” characters. Newspaper Reviews

15.  Fitzgerald’s reputation reached its lowest point during the Depression, when he was viewed as a Jazz Age writer whose time has come and gone.  The Great Gatsby went out of print in 1939.  When Fitzgerald died a year later, Time magazine didn’t even mention The Great Gatsby. The 1930s

16.  Interest in Fitzgerald was revived with the posthumous book, The Last Tycoon.  A literary critic was the first to point out that Gatsby, despite its Jazz Age setting, focused on timeless, universal concerns. The 1940s

17.  Fitzgerald’s reputation soared with a new biography entitled The Far Side of Paradise.  The London Times affirmed that Gatsby is “one of the best-if not the best-American novels of the past fifty years.” The 1950s

18.  The Great Gatsby’s place as a major novel is now assured.  Most high schools teach this novel What is the reputation today?

19. It’s time for you to decide, Old Sport…

21.  When is your The Great Gatsby ch. 1- 2 quiz? (Vocab words on are the wiki from yesterday)  What do we know about Nick Carraway from ch. 1?  What “locations” have been described in ch. 1? Am Lit DO NOW 2/18/15

22.  Students learn about a new “location,” the valley of ashes and more about Tom’s moral character. Students will also be introduced to Dr. T.J. Eckleburg  You know you are successful when you have written answers to all your comprehension questions for chapters 1-2 Success Today Means 2/18

23.  Respond: Do you remember what your social movement is? What are the “parts” of the movement you need to find info about? (There were 6 sections in the original handout that told you what you had to research: remind me today)  On your desk, have out any notes you took for Chapters 1-2 of The Great Gatsby Am Lit DO NOW 2/19/15

24.  Students review their comprehension of chapters 1- 2 by completing a reading check.  Students practice “guessing” ch. 3 vocab words  Students learn how to create a source card and notecard using our research notecard system  Students know they are successful when they correctly create their own source card and notecards Success Today Means 2/19

25. Why notecards?  Regular note taking works fine for small essays, arguments, assignments or lectures, but what happens when you have 50 pieces of information? How can you keep track of what fact comes from what source and be able to organize your facts by theme and not source?

28. Notecard System= Smarter  More work at first, MUCH LESS WORK later.

29. The Basics  Source Card:  Every credible source’s information is written on a card in MLA format (including a “hanging indent”)  Every source gets its own number 1 Elliott, Christopher. “Don’t let a natural disaster ruin your vacation.” CNN.com/travel. 2 July 2008. CNN. 10 July 2008 <http://www.cnn.com/2008/TRAVEL/07/ 02/natural.disasters/index.html>.

30. The Basics (notes continued)  Note Cards= Index cards with a SINGLE fact, quote, statistic, example, paraphrase or summary (if covering a large piece of info)  Matching source card number in upper right. So…

31. Source card with a notecard 1 “ Traveling with an emergency weather radio is key to surviving a disaster while on vacation” –Christopher Elliot 1 Overall, staying calm and finding government aids is critical to surviving a disaster while away from home

32.  Turn in Do Nows from Week 6 to US MAIL BOX.  Create a smart goal for research work today. I need you to have 10 notes by next Friday. What can you get done today?  Turn your SMART goal into me. If it is a challenging goal and you achieve it today: Getting’ Dippied! Am Lit DO NOW 2/20/15

33. Success Today Means 2/20

34. Steps to work Smarter today 2/20/15  Scan/Skim possible source  Conduct Credibility Checklist  If credible, copy down “Source Information”  Source Info=  Author’s last name, first name  “Title of webpage.”  Date (day month year)  Name of sponsoring organization  Date of access (day month year) .