Instructional Guide Book, The Great Gatsby, Grade 9-12

Use this guide to familiarize students with this well-known novel and encourage them to connect the story with actual events and issues from the 1920s by completing fun, challenging activities and lessons. Readers will enjoy analyzing this complex literary piece and revel in the life lessons they take away from it. Analyzing story elements in multiple ways, close reading and text-based vocabulary practice, and determining meaning through text-dependent questions are just a few of the many skills students will learn. Each activity and lesson work in conjunction with the text to teach students how to analyze and comprehend rich, complex literature. Book is designed for children in ninth-grade through 12th-grade.