Teaching The Great Gatsby

Teachers’ worksheets to tackle Fitzgerald

This week hard pressed A Level Eng. Lit. teachers can breathe a sigh of relief that there are some more helpful resources to take the hassle out of lesson planning. Entirely free and written by UK A Level classroom practitioners, the latest set of downloadable The Great Gatsby worksheets from Crossref-it.info cover topics such as:

• How society operated in the Jazz Age, as depicted in the novel
• The use of colours and symbols in The Great Gatsby
• The effect of the narrative framework
• The impact of the opening and ending of the novel.

Each sheet can be printed off and used for homework tasks or to help students catch up missed work, and there is also a series of directed questions investigating each chapter of the text.

To help students speedily access helpful information, the downloads also suggest where they can find relevant material in the Great Gatsby text guide (launched last September) to Fitzgerald’s masterpiece. In it you’ll discover not just chapter-by-chapter synopses and commentaries, but sections about the social, political and philosophical background to the Jazz Age, as well as the characters and structure of the novel, and recent critical approaches to the text.

If you think you’ve got more teaching ideas about The Great Gatsby you’d like to contribute, please submit them to info@crossref-it.info and they may feature in a future blog!