Here are the unit materials and other resources for Gatsby:
Unit Outline and Chapter Resources – YR11 LIT T4 Unit 2 Outcome 2 GATSBY BOOKLET 2015
Journal Assessment Rubrics – Gatsby Journal Assessment Rubrics 2015
Opening Powerpoint – Overview PPT 2015
A Scene From Baz’s Gatsby –
John Green’s Videos –
Chapter 1
Here is a podcast of our lesson on Chapter 1:
Here is another John Green video that looks specifically at Chapter 1:
Chapter 2
Here is a podcast of our lesson on Chapter 2:
Here is another John Green video:
Chapter 3
The podcast for our first session:
And the final part of the chapter:
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
As this chapter will be dealt with across two classes there are two podcasts. The first deals with material up until Gatsby takes Daisy and Nick to his home. The second is from that moment until the end of the chapter.
We also watched this clip as a way of summing up at the midpoint of the novel:
Chapter 6
Chapter 6 is a shortish chapter but an important lead up to the climax.
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Passage Analysis Skills
You may find it useful to get another explanation of how to do close analysis. The only text book available for literature has a very good outline and while it only uses one passage rather than three to write a response the example and response are on The Great Gatsby so you should find that the process is easy to follow. All you then need to layer in is how to mix up your insights and evidence from more than one passage.
Here is a short piece of audio of me explaining what there is that is helpful in this extract.
Kaleidoscope Project Example
As the kaleidoscope project is a fairly open ended task you could have a tendency to go overboard with your notes and thus take a lot longer to do the activity. Below is an example of the sort of annotation you have in your book – in this example you will notice I have annotated anything and everything that has meaning or potential for being discussed. I have also attached the same passage but completed for the project – it has far less annotation as I have only focused on those aspects that I would use to discuss the concepts I have identified. This example took me 4 minutes to complete as we had recently discussed the passage and none of the thinking was new.
Sample Passage Analysis Essay
While you completed the same task in The Tempest unit it is worth refreshing the skills by looking over an example response. The below scan shows an annotated set of passages and plan completed in 25 minutes and a written response completed in 1 hour. You will have 2 hours and 15 minutes to do this in your exam which means you should be able to match the quality.
Passage Analysis Essay with Annotations and Full Response
Here is the way I would have approached the exam passages:
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