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Year 13 'The Great Gatsby'

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Podcasts. Modern Context. Audio and online version. Study Guides. Random Gatsby. Lcenglish1 : Starting Gatsby with Year 13. Lcenglish1 : #Gatsby. Lcenglish1 : Great Gatsby Map. Nick Carraway's Bungalow "A weather beaten down bungalow at eighty a month" (9) Jay Gatsby's House "rented for twelve or fifteen thousand a season" (11) "it was a factual imitation of some Hotel de Ville in Normandy" (11) "the one on my right was a colossal affair by any standard" (11) New York City - About 20 miles from west egg and east egg "Twenty miles from the city a pair of enormous eggs" (10) Motor Road "The motor road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land" (26) Railroad "the motor road hastily joins the railroad" (26) Long Island Sound "pair of enormous eggs... separated only by a courtesy bay... the great wet barnyard of Long Island Sound" (10) Green Light Flashing by Daisy's dock Tom and Daisy Buchanan's House "Across the courteous bay the white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water" (11) "I drove over there to have dinner with the Tom Buchanans" (11) East Egg Courtesy Bay T.J.

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Your A Level English Literature: What the examiners are looking for - Surviving Exams, Education. By Marcella Turley – 02 May 2012 Put simply, giving the examiner what they want is the way to achieve top marks.

Your A Level English Literature: What the examiners are looking for - Surviving Exams, Education

Having an understanding of the examiner’s wish list and making sure that you tick these boxes is the way to get the best results. It’s about the Key Terms and the Assessment Objectives: Remember the key words of the question. This will help you stick to the title and actually answer what is being asked. During the exam: Start by unpacking the question: Don’t rush in. Skilled candidates adapt their knowledge to meet the specific question. F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of The Great Gatsby, was born in 1896. Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Unit Connotation, Character, and Color Imagery in The Great Gatsby Students explore the connotations of the colors associated with the characters in F.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of The Great Gatsby, was born in 1896.

Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson Judging a Book by its Cover: The Art and Imagery of The Great Gatsby Students explore The Great Gatsby's allusion to art and its use of visual imagery and conclude their study by designing their own cover for the novel. Become a Character: Adjectives, Character Traits, and Perspective Students "become" one of the major characters in a book and describe themselves and other characters, using lists of accurate, powerful adjectives.

Modeling Academic Writing Through Scholarly Article Presentations Students prepare an already published scholarly article for presentation, with an emphasis on identification of the author’s thesis and argument structure.

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