I have selected a few of the many bookcovers designed to help to sell Fitzgerald's novel. With a text such as this, students are in an odd position: many will know of the text and some will have seen the …
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‘Characters in pursuit of money lie at the heart of much american Literature’…
Two sound files of essays presented in my y13 classes today. There is a genuine attempt to engage with a range of literature and the whole is quite elegantly written. As we discuss the essays, several strong threads are created …
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The age of loathing?
Bill Bryson, in his excellent book 'One Summer...1927' offers this on the era of the 'roaring twenties': I would love to show more, but it is worthy of consideration when we read Gatsby- so many deeply unpleasant people in a …
Money in American Literature is the root of all evil… an essay submission
This is a presentation of an A level essay by one of the Upper 6th. He explores the question in terms of Huckleberry Finn (read as far as the Feud at this point) and Gatsby. Native Son is mentioned in …
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An article on F.Scott Fitzgerald: contexts for OCR A level
My thanks to my colleague Jonathan Pepperman for this. He had it all Alex Harvey Paradise Lost: A Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald by David S. Brown Harvard, 424 pp, £21.95, May 2017, ISBN 978 0 674 50482 0 ‘I’d Die for You’ and Other …
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Gatsby: An African American issue
I thought I would write a short article instead of a teaching aid to cover this discussion. Hopefully students will read this and let their research and wider reading fill in any gaps in my narrative. I am aiming at …
Gatsby: A queer theory stimulus
Queer theory is a developing field and there are complex nuances and variations to any approach. Here I look at The Great Gatsby, led by Lois Tyson's Literary Criticism Today. I teach Gatsby alongside Huck Finn and this will be …
Gatsby: Feminist Stimulus
I wrote this a while ago. I still stand by it, though I want to ensure that students are introduced to Feminism in a broader sense and also begin to recognise a Patriarchal Agenda when they come across it. I …
Gatsby : A Marxist stimulus
I am writing some stimulus PowerPoints to explore critical readings of Gatsby as part of my prep for A level American Literature (OCR). In the creation of these powerpoints, I have leaned extensively on Lois Tyson: Critical Theory Today - …
Jordan Baker: careless driver, cheat and … Gatsby’s source?
We were reading Chapter 3 today and an idea grew which is worth considering even if only to reject: Jordan is Gatsby's way in to regaining Daisy. how else would he know to invite Nick, let alone to 'recognise' him …
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