~The Transformation from Gatz to Gatsby~ The Great Gatsby ~The Transformation from Gatz to Gatsby~

Synopsis Video: http://www.sparknotes.com/sparknotes/video/gatsby

Group Discussion: In your table groups discuss everything you know about Jay Gatsby. You will be sharing your discussion with the class.

Directions: We will read pages 98-101 carefully, starting with the paragraph that begins, “James Gatz – that was really, or at least legally, his name.” Identify the major events, places, and people that make up the life history of James Gatz. List these. For each event or period, create a picture, symbol or object that identifies or symbolizes that particular incident. Include the years and months if possible. Create a timeline or diagram that illustrates this sequence of events. You can complete a rough draft in class. A final, clear, and colourful draft will be due in the following classes.

Order of Events: - Works on a farm with his family in North Dakota - Dreams of a wealthy life and having expensive things - Works as fisherman on Lake Superior - Attends St. Olaf’s College paying tuition by working as a janitor, later drops out - Returns to working as a fisherman on Lake Superior Meets Dan Cody, begins sailing and working with him. Cody acts as a mentor for Gatsby while he continues planning how he can become rich Dan Cody dies, Gatsby is left an inheritance of $25,000 but never receives it because Cody’s ex-wife takes it all Gatsby is penniless again and at this time enlists in the army Meets Daisy in Louisville while training at Camp Taylor Goes overseas to fight in the War Returns to America, meets Meyer Wolfsheim, begins living in New York and working in the bootlegging business

A Helpful Website: http://www.nhcs.k12.in.us/staff/bbigham/The%20Great%20Gatsby/Timeline.pdf

Directions: Read pages 116-117 in pairs, silently or orally and then discuss and write your answers to the questions below. What is your first reaction to this scene? What prompts this reaction? What are Nick’s and Gatsby’s opinions about time and “repeating the past”? Which side of this issue do you most agree with? Why? What do their attitudes about the past suggest about their current relationships? At this point in the novel, how would you characterize the following relationships? (How do these people feel about each other? Are the attachments strong or weak? What does the future of the relationship look like to you? Explain.) (a) Gatsby and Daisy, (b) Daisy and Tom, (c) Tom and Myrtle, (d) Nick and Jordan