Directions: Click on the provided links to find information necessary for answering the questions.
1. Describe the “Roaring Twenties.” Explore this site and its many links: http://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties/.
Give some facts about the following:
Flappers and the changing role of women in society
Impact of Prohibition
Conflicting views on jazz
Rise of the automobile (see also http://www.huffenglish.com/gatsby/automobiles.html)
2. Read this brief biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Describe some of the high points and low points in Fitzgerald’s life. http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/biography.html
3. What is an expatriate and is Fitzgerald one? What is the “Lost Generation”? Was Fitzgerald influenced by any of its members? If so, provide the names and how Fitzgerald was influenced.
http://www.justlanded.com/english/Common/Footer/Expatriates http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/Departments/hpolscrv/jbolhofer.html
4. What is “the American dream” and how does the concept of it relate to The Great Gatsby?
http://www.inforefuge.com/demise-of-american-dream-the-great-gatsby
5. What impact did Fitzgerald’s editor/publisher have on his work? http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Gatsby#Writing_and_publication http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell_Perkins
6. Describe the issues with geographical accuracy in The Great Gatsby. http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/essays/right.html
7. Referring to the question above, do you believe inconsistencies may ruin The Great Gatsby? Why/ or why not?
8. Where is F. Scott Fitzgerald buried? http://www.peerlessrockville.org/peerless_places/peerless_places_fitzgeralds_gravesite.htm
9. On a separate sheet of paper, compose a literary timeline with U.S. and world events beginning with Fitzgerald’s birth year and ending with the year of his death. The timeline must include a minimum of five (5) U.S. and world events and five (5) Fitzgerald-related events. http://www.animatedatlas.com/timeline.html http://www.pbs.org/kteh/amstorytellers/bios.html http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/fitzgerald_f_timeline_flash.html http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/chronology.html
10. Take a trip to the 1920s! Play the game as both male and female and then answer the questions: 1) What surprised you most about the 1920s? 2) What did you like the most? 3) What did you like the least? 4) What is something you learned by playing this game?
http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/en/keys/games/game_0_1920s
1. Describe the “Roaring Twenties.” Explore this site and its many links: http://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties/.
Give some facts about the following:
Flappers and the changing role of women in society
Impact of Prohibition
Conflicting views on jazz
Rise of the automobile (see also http://www.huffenglish.com/gatsby/automobiles.html)
2. Read this brief biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Describe some of the high points and low points in Fitzgerald’s life. http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/biography.html
3. What is an expatriate and is Fitzgerald one? What is the “Lost Generation”? Was Fitzgerald influenced by any of its members? If so, provide the names and how Fitzgerald was influenced.
http://www.justlanded.com/english/Common/Footer/Expatriates http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/Departments/hpolscrv/jbolhofer.html
4. What is “the American dream” and how does the concept of it relate to The Great Gatsby?
http://www.inforefuge.com/demise-of-american-dream-the-great-gatsby
5. What impact did Fitzgerald’s editor/publisher have on his work? http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Gatsby#Writing_and_publication http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell_Perkins
6. Describe the issues with geographical accuracy in The Great Gatsby. http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/essays/right.html
7. Referring to the question above, do you believe inconsistencies may ruin The Great Gatsby? Why/ or why not?
8. Where is F. Scott Fitzgerald buried? http://www.peerlessrockville.org/peerless_places/peerless_places_fitzgeralds_gravesite.htm
9. On a separate sheet of paper, compose a literary timeline with U.S. and world events beginning with Fitzgerald’s birth year and ending with the year of his death. The timeline must include a minimum of five (5) U.S. and world events and five (5) Fitzgerald-related events. http://www.animatedatlas.com/timeline.html http://www.pbs.org/kteh/amstorytellers/bios.html http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/fitzgerald_f_timeline_flash.html http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/chronology.html
10. Take a trip to the 1920s! Play the game as both male and female and then answer the questions: 1) What surprised you most about the 1920s? 2) What did you like the most? 3) What did you like the least? 4) What is something you learned by playing this game?
http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/en/keys/games/game_0_1920s