F. Scott Fitzgerald’s-The Great Gatsby

Welcome to The Great Gatsby!

FULL BOOK PDF:

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AUDIO BOOKS: (CH 1-All others link from this)

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Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?

Viewing Guide Here: Fitzgerald Viewing Guide

The History of how Gatsby became so well read (video credit to PBS):

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Background on the Novel, what was going on in America?

• Jazz Age
• Bootlegging/Organized Crime/The Speakeasy
• Fashion
• Technology: (Watch from 6:27-10:40)

Politics

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Reading Timeline (2022)

CH	Approx #of Pages	Class Intro Day	Quiz/Class Discussion Day
1	21	11/17-18	11/28-29: Ch 1 Quiz
23	1522	11/22-2212/1-2	12/5-6 SOCRATIC SEMINAR CH 1-3
4	20	12/5-6	12/7-8: Ch 4 Quiz
5	15	12/9 & 12/12	12/13-14: Ch 4-5 SOCRATIC SEMINAR
6	16	12/13-14	1/4-5: Ch 6 Quiz
7	34	1/10-11
8	16	1/12-13
9	18	1/14-17	1/18-19: FINAL GATSBY TEST!

Character Connections

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CAST YOUR REMAKE OF THE MOVIE!! How do YOU See these Characters? for Chapter 4 Notes collection you will be looking BACK at CH 1-3 as well as what you find in CH 4 to Recast the film as you see them (NO ACTORS FROM EITHER FILM VERSION MAY BE USED).

My Casting (FOIL CHARACTER PAIRS):

Daisy Vs Myrtle

Gatsby vs Tom

Nick & Jordan

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Character Connections

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Topics for Gatsby Analysis/Visual Notes Reinforcement

Pre-Reading PPT (For Guided Notes) –the Great Gatsby 2025 before reading & The Great Gatsby Guided Notes

All Chapter Topics: ALL GATSBY NOTE TOPICS

CHAPTER 1: Gatsby Close Reading Questions Ch 1 ONLY

• Father’s advice
• Nick’s background
• East Egg vs. West Egg
  

  

  

  

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_WONtJ3GVQ

• The phone call

• Your impressions of Tom
• Your impressions of Daisy
• Your impressions of Jordan
• The green light

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CHAPTER 2: 

• The Valley of Ashes/Eyes of Dr. TJ Eckleberg
  

  

  

  

  The Real World Perspective as shown on PBS “Great Performances: American Heart in WWI-A Carnegie Hall Tribute”
• What happens at George’s garage

• New York City & the apartment
  

  The Apartment

  

  WAY UP TOWN

  

  What she wanted vs. what she got

  The party in the apartment (and guests)

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  Catherine’s comments about Gatsby and Daisy (Gatsby Rumor)

• Catherine & Myrtle’s comments about George & Tom
• The mentioning of Daisy and Nick’s exit

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CHAPTER 3:

• Lavish party preparations
  

  

  

  More Gatsby rumors

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  Hanging with Jordan/man with owl eyes

• Nick meets Gatsby

• Things that make Gatsby mysterious
  • This discussion of the War (Again, video credits thanks to PBS):
• Craziness as the party winds down
• Nick’s everyday life
  

  

  

  More about Jordan Baker

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• CHAPTER 4:

• Gatsby rumors (new and repeated)
• Nick’s ride and conversation with Gatsby (including Gatsby’s artifacts)
  

  

  

  

  Encounter with a police officer

• Wolfsheim (Nick’s impression and the World Series)

• One October day in 1917
• The wedding of Tom and Daisy
• Before the bridal dinner
• Santa Barbara
• Why Gatsby does what he does, and what he wants Nick to do

CHAPTER 5:

• Nervous Gatsby (multiple occasions)
• “a rather confidential sort of thing “
• Gatsby’s preparations
• The meeting of Daisy and Gatsby

• Nick, the third wheel (multiple occasions)
• Gatsby shows off

• Daisy’s reactions (esp. to the shirts)
• Klipspringer (who he is and what Gatsby has him do)
• “His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one” (symbolic)

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CHAPTER 6:

• James Gatz/life before Dan

• Dan Cody
• How Gatsby met Dan
• How Dan’s life influenced Gatsby
• Encounter with the three on horseback
  

  

  Daisy at Gatsby’s party

• Tom at Gatsby’s party
• Gatsby’s disappointment
• One autumn night, five years before

CHAPTER 7:

• The new hired help
• Heat (literally and symbolically)
• Brief appearance of Daisy’s child (your thoughts)
• Tom vs. Gatsby tension (at Tom’s house)
• Driving to New York (details)
• The latest on George and Myrtle (details)
• The fight for Daisy at the Plaza (details)
• Michaelis and George
• Myrtle (details of what happens)

CHAPTER 8:

• Why young Gatsby was drawn to Daisy
• “he had taken her under false pretenses” (explain)
• The war and Oxford
• Daisy’s “artificial world” and cry for a decision
• Gatsby’s trip to Louisville
• Nick’s comments/thoughts when leaving Gatsby
• Jordan’s phone call to Nick
• Michaelis speaks with George
• “the holocaust was complete” (explain)

CHAPTER 9:

• Media & witness depictions of George and Gatsby
• Attempts to contact the Buchanans & Wolfsheim
• Henry C. Gatz
• Klipspringer
• A visit with Wolfsheim
• “Schedule” and “General Resolves”
• The funeral
• Final encounter with Jordan
• Final encounter with Tom

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Gatsby Ch 1-5 Group Review Posters/Presentations

Thank you,

Mrs. Reed

Updated 11/18/25