American Literature Module 3.8
The Great Gatsby
Study Guide: American Literature (Excellence in Literature, English 3)
Focus Text: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Honors Text
My Ántonia by Willa Cather or Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry
Context Resource Links
These links represent only the online resources referenced in this module. Instructions, background information, offline resources, and assignments are all found in the Excellence in Literature study guide listed above.
Readings
- https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/modernism-and-experimentation-1914-1945/
- https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/fitzgerald-collection-at-usc
- https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/symbols-in-the-great-gatsby/
The Author’s Life
- Some Sort of Epic Grandeur: The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald (Rev) by Matthew Joseph Bruccoli
- http://www.pbs.org/kteh/amstorytellers/bios.html
Poetry
Langston Hughes
- http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/177397
- http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/177020
- http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173693
Wallace Stevens
Stephen Vincent Benét
e e cummings
Audio
Video
- http://www.learner.org/resources/series164.html
- https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/dicaprio-discusses-the-great-gatsby
Visual Arts
- http://www.nyc-architecture.com/MID/MID021.htm
- http://www.decopix.com/
- http://www.rogallery.com/Erte/erte-biography.htm
Music
- http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/tbacig/studproj/is3099/jazzcult/20sjazz/index.html
- http://www.wwnorton.com/college/music/jazz-essentials/ch/05/outline.aspx
- https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/f-scott-fitzgerald-resources/
Historic Context
- http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005247.html
- https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/jazz/
- http://arcadiasystems.org/academia/jazzage2.html
Category link for browsing: https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/category/e3-resources
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