Great+Gatsby

__**Stage 1: **__
__**OVERVIEW **__
 * Students will make comments on character walls to show the elements of characterization.
 * Students will analyze characters and their relationships to one another in The Great Gatsby.
 * Students will utilize a PowerPoint simulation of Facebook to represent characterization and development in The Great Gatsby.

I can use text references to analyze and describe character background and personality within the text. I can develop a summary of the story through the lens of a particular character. I can infer characters' motivations through their actions in the text. I can compare the characters in The Great Gatsby to the historical setting of the 1920s. I can compare the characters and plot in The Great Gatsby to Fitzgerald's life. I can define and identify theme.
 * __I CAN STATEMENTS __**

__**READING STRAND: READING FOR LITERATURE **__ Key Ideas and Details
 * 1) Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.
 * 2) Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of text.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Analyze the impact of the author’s choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama (e.g., where a story is set, how the action is ordered, how the characters are introduced and developed).

__<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**ESSENTIAL QUESTION** __ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">How can a Jazz Age man live in the New Millennium?


 * __<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">﻿FOLLOW-UP INFORMATION __<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> (As of 03/06/11) **
 * 1) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Fitzgerald's //<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Great Gatsby //<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> is generally taught to English III classes at the beginning of second semester at Midpark High School. Thus, upon completion, this lesson will be implemented during the second semester of the 2011-2012 school year.
 * 2) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The group's next steps include continuing to gather, revise, and adapt both current and new resources to enhance/update the //Gatsby// unit already in place. Additionally, the group will continue to revise and adapt the following PowerPoint exemplar: [[file:Facebook sample page - Owl Eyed Man.ppt]]