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The Great Gatsby Setting Project
9-12 ELA
Created on October 20, 2023
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Transcript
PRESENTATION
Setting Project Guide
The Great Gatsby
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Multimedia
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Learning Objective
Rubric
Success Criteria
Presentation
Project Directions
Standards
INDEX
Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise.
CCSS RL.9-10.5
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language evokes a sense of time and place; how it sets a formal or informal tone).
CCSS RL.9-10.4
Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
CCSS RL.9-10.1
STANDARDS
Analyze a scene for textual evidence of the setting and explain its meaning, purpose, and impact.
LEARNING OBJECTIVE
Create a video or podcast
Construct a slideshow
Construct a literary analysis
MULTIMEDIA
PRESENTATION
WRITE
Choose one of the following tasks below to demonstrate your understanding of how the setting was used in the text.
PROJECT DIRECTIONS
+ graphic organizer
+ what is setting
Prompt: Analyze how the setting of The Great Gatsby impacts the characters or plot.
- Your analysis should be THREE paragraphs
- Intro
- Body
- Conclusion
- Paragraphs are 8-10 sentences
- At least TWO pieces of text evidence to support your thesis
- Use WORD to type your analysis
- Include Title and Heading
- Works cited for your in-text citations
Construct a literary analysis
WRITE
+ Great Gatsby Setting
+ Great Gatsby Setting
+ what is setting
- You will include:
- Introduction slide
- THREE setting slides
- Conclusion slide
- Complete each section of the template slides
- Your own drawing or CITED image of the scene
- Identify the setting of the scene
- Describe the action of the scene (include character names)
- One sentence analysis of how the setting impacts the characters or action (plot)
Construct a slideshow
PRESENTATION
+ slide show template
+ sample slide show
+ Great Gatsby Setting
+ what is setting
- Analyze the setting for each chapter and decide on one song/lyrics to represent the setting & action for the chapter.
- Make a slide for each chapter with:
- picture
- lyrics/or clip of song
- song title and artist
- 9 chapter slides
- 1 works cited slide (cite where you got pictures & music lyrics)
Create a soundtrack
MULTIMEDIA
I can be successful if…
- I know what setting means.
- I can find a scene in the text where the setting is important.
- I can cite words or phrases from the text, make inferences, and describe how the setting impacts the reader and the mood of the scene.
- I can analyze and explain Fitzgerald's purpose for using a specific setting in the scene and why the details are significant.
- I can analyze how the characters affect the setting and how the setting acts as a character.
RUBRIC
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