Unit Plan

Unit Topic: ​ ​The Great Gatsby​ by F. Scott Fitzgerald ​ Time Frame: ​four weeks

Subject/Course: ​English​ Grade Level: ​11

CONTENT STANDARDS
List all appropriate national, state or district standards that align to this unit.

RL.11-12.1
RL.11-12.2
RL.11-12.4
RI.11-12.3
W.11-12.7
W.11-12.9

BIG IDEA/ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

Big Idea/Enduring Understanding guiding this unit:

Substantial literary works retain their importance over time and are still relevant today.

Essential Questions: ​What provocative questions will foster inquiry, understanding and spark more questions? What questions will help students develop
and deepen their understanding?

1. Is a person's value tied to what class he or she is from?

2. Is Fitzgerald's view of the American Dream still of relevance today?
3. Relationships are important for people. Is love (and relationships) supposed to last or are they inevitably unstable?

ASSESSMENTS
List the assessments that will be used to gauge student learning. This may include traditional quizzes or exams, as well as ​major​ learning activities such
as simulations, labs, etc.

chapter reading quizzes

Socratic seminar
comparative projects and discussions
final project (one pager assessment activity piece)
 RESOURCES/MATERIALS
List all resources (copyrighted or otherwise) that you will need to teach this unit. This should be a comprehensive list of ​all​ resources you will need to
create or borrow (including textbook chapters, additional readings, videos, power points and teaching notes, handouts, assessments, etc.)
one ​Great Gatsby​ novel per student
three different movie versions (clips)
Power Point Presentations on:
◦ the Jazz Age
◦ F. Scott and Zelda
◦ theme/symbolism
biographic film on Fitzgerald
group activity materials for tweet
instructions for research project, chapter activities and final project
chrome books for online research and writing activities (Google classroom)

Unit Calendar

(For each class period, list the topic of the day. You may indicate major instructional activities or standards if you choose.)
(Insert or delete days of the week as appropriate for your school district calendar. Add or delete weeks depending on the length of your unit.)

MONDAY 55min TUESDAY 55min WEDNESDAY 55min THURSDAY 55min FRIDAY 52min

Discuss essential In class research In class writing time Presentations on Quiz Ch. 1
questions, unit time for historical and working on background turn in project
projects slides time historical project pieces
objectives and HW: finish at home HW: read ch.1 discussion old
state standards what you didn’t and new money
introduce group finish in class HW: ch.2
research project finished product 1-2
on historical facts pages MLA style
rules and and 3-5 slides on
expectations for Power Point
project and
supplemental
power point group
presentation

Quiz Ch.2 Quiz Ch.3 Quiz Ch.4 Quiz Ch5 Quiz Ch.6, but
biography on watch two different symbolism in watch party scene in students create
Fitzgerald (film party scenes, ch.3, Gatsby’s (Power Ch.5 questions to
and Power Point) while making notes Point) create musical check how well
Power Point on discuss owl eyes group project: make playlist that is better they have read.
Jazz Age and drunk driving an advertisement for than what the movie Informal Socratic
HW: ch.3 exit ticket: tweet Dr. Eckleburg based suggests Seminar
about the party on the description in HW: ch.6 HW: ch.7
HW: ch. 4 the novel
HW: ch. 5

Quiz Ch. 7 Quiz Ch.8 Finish station Quiz Ch. 9 Found Poem
who should Daisy blended instruction rotation created obituary, activity based on
choose? Make pro station rotation: Ch.8 revisited: what epitaph or social the novel
compare Daisy do we know about
and con list for version in movies to accident? Accident media
each man book, analyze report writing announcement
HW: ch. 8 quotes from the HW: ch.9
book, research
quotes of critics
online

Rewrite of the end Final Socratic Start on final Continue and finish Final review and
of the novel Seminar (themes, project/ one pager final project project due day
thoughts, (instructions will be Gatsby party in
connections) handed out) class
The American
Dream in shambles?