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Write a one page fictionalized editorial based on details from the 1920’s or about an incident in The Great Gatsby.

For this assignment, you will create a 5 slide 1920’s newspaper using MS Word, MS Power point or Prezi. Your newspaper (stories and pictures) should be 5-8 slides in length. News (first slide) Create a catchy title for your newspaper, and write at least one news story featuring a major historical event based on the […]

Identify one social-cultural narrative that is invoked significantly in at least 1 of these 2 novels.

Research essay on The Great Gatsby & Black Thunder (10–12pp. w/full citations) Directions: Identify one social or cultural narrative that is invoked significantly in at least 1 of these 2 novels. Research its history and interpretation in recent scholarly writing. Explain its relation to the main story in both novels—or, if it is absent or […]

Write an essay in which you take a position on the message Fitzgerald communicates in The Great Gatsby and develop your argument using evidence from the novel.

The great Gatsby final assessment What statement/argument is Fitzgerald making about the human experience? Is he arguing something about American life in the 20’s? Is he commenting on how wealth impacts people? Is he making a statement on a person’s capacity to transcend his/her socioeconomic status? Is he criticizing people who are too focused on […]

Explains the topic using tools such as precise language, domain-specific vocabulary, and when appropriate, literary techniques and establishes and maintains a formal style and objective tone

Building knowledge of the historical context of a work of literature provides readers with a valuable interpretive lens. Using the opulence and oppression of the 1920s as a frame, discuss how Fitzgerald develops two themes relating to greatness and the American dream. Explains a theme related to the American dream in The Great Gatsby Explains […]

Discuss Is The Great Gatsby a tragedy (within the parameters of the literary definition of tragedy)?

1) Upon its publication in 1925 H.L. Mencken, America’s foremost literary and social critic, called The Great Gatsby’s plot a “mere anecdote.” But since then many critics have advanced The Great Gatsby as the Great American Novel. What theme of the novel is intrinsically “American,” and how does Fitzgerald develop that theme? What traditionally American […]