Additional Activies
From Bloom’s How to Write about F. Scott Fitzgerald by Kim E. Bencnel*
Reread chapter 3 of The Great Gatsby where the billboard is described overlooking the valley of ashes and answer these following questions: “What are these eyes seeing? Who is being watched? How does sight function in the novel? Are there other images of watchful eyes in Gatsby? Is it significant that the eyes are an advertisement on a billboard?” (Bencnel 2008).
From American Literature Jeopardy by Patricia Tarry-Stevens*
Play Jeopardy with the questions provided by the book. Pay close attention to the categories labeled “Nick’s View”
From More Novels and Plays by Janet E. Worthington and Albert B. Somers*
“In Chapter VII, Daisy, impressed with Gatsby’s look of coolness, tries to recall the advertisement of a man Gatsby reminds her of. Look through magazines like Esquire, Gentlemen’s Quarterly, and The New Yorker for an ad that might satisfy her efforts to recall. Then write a paragraph explaining your choice and share it with the class.”
From http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/LitNote/id-119,pageNum-49.html
Take the quiz as a summery review and think about how the answers for questions 4 and 5 would differ if the narrator had been third person omniscient
From http://www.glc.k12.ga.us/BuilderV03/Attachments/25858.doc
On this worksheet, mark each the chapter the symbol is used in and describe how it is us (i.e. what does it symbolize?)
From http://www.teachervision.fen.com/literature/lesson-plan/2927.html
Give one possible meaning for each symbol listed
*Can be found in Duquesne University’s Curriculum Center