UbD & F. Scott Fitzgerald

The American dream seems to be an important aspect of what we will be studying with the Great Gatsby. How people live their lives and what they do that makes them important to the world around them. Background knowledge that could be useful is from the books we had read last year about the goings on of the south and how it affected the people who lived there and the problems that they encounter while just living normal everyday lives. Learning how to discern details will also be a major part of our studies this year so that when reading novels like The Great Gatsby we can find find the underlying message and adequately analyze the book.