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Teaching Literacy, Outline Module
Lesson Plan for 12th Grade Level Readers
Topic: The Great Gatsby
Part 1
Title of Text: Fitzgerald, F. Scott. (1925). The Great Gatsby. New York: Simon & Schuster
Readability Level of Text: I will be using the whole book for my lesson plan. I came to the readibility level by using teh OKAPI software. Since I am using the whole book of the Great Gatsby I chose to just type in the first couple sentences of the book.
Text Summary: The Great Gatsby is a book viewed through the eyes of a character named Nick Carraway. In the summer of 1922 Mr. Carraway moves to New York on a business adventure, where he rents a house next to a man named Jay Gatsby. This house in West Egg is close to his cousin Daisys house and her husband Tom, Nick old classmate from Yale. These two will soon introduce Nick to a girl named Jordan, Who will be Nicks summer romance. Soon Nick, Jordan, Gatsby, Daisy and Tom all swtart to hang out at Gatsbys mansion. Secrets are revealed, like Gatsby has been in love with Daisy for years, and he bought hsi hosue just so he could be close to Daisy. Soon Gatsby and Daisy start up a relationship. Tom gets courious! One day Gatsby and Daisy is driving with Daisy at the wheel. Daisy stricks and kills a lady. Tom tells the woman’s husband that it was Gatsby driving the car. In such a fit of rage he kills Gatsby, realizes he didn’t do it, and then kills himself. Nick finds Gatsby’s body laying in his pool in the back yard. It seems when Gatsby dies the summer of 1922 dies with him. Things go back to the way things were before the summer started. The ideas I will be using in my lessons are subjects I want ot get across to my students such as the plot of the story. I want my sents to know all about the characters and settings in teh story. I will be teaching my students all about symbolism this this book. I would like my students to know what the 20’s were like so they
Lesson Plan for 12th Grade Level Readers
Topic: The Great Gatsby
Part 1
Title of Text: Fitzgerald, F. Scott. (1925). The Great Gatsby. New York: Simon & Schuster
Readability Level of Text: I will be using the whole book for my lesson plan. I came to the readibility level by using teh OKAPI software. Since I am using the whole book of the Great Gatsby I chose to just type in the first couple sentences of the book.
Text Summary: The Great Gatsby is a book viewed through the eyes of a character named Nick Carraway. In the summer of 1922 Mr. Carraway moves to New York on a business adventure, where he rents a house next to a man named Jay Gatsby. This house in West Egg is close to his cousin Daisys house and her husband Tom, Nick old classmate from Yale. These two will soon introduce Nick to a girl named Jordan, Who will be Nicks summer romance. Soon Nick, Jordan, Gatsby, Daisy and Tom all swtart to hang out at Gatsbys mansion. Secrets are revealed, like Gatsby has been in love with Daisy for years, and he bought hsi hosue just so he could be close to Daisy. Soon Gatsby and Daisy start up a relationship. Tom gets courious! One day Gatsby and Daisy is driving with Daisy at the wheel. Daisy stricks and kills a lady. Tom tells the woman’s husband that it was Gatsby driving the car. In such a fit of rage he kills Gatsby, realizes he didn’t do it, and then kills himself. Nick finds Gatsby’s body laying in his pool in the back yard. It seems when Gatsby dies the summer of 1922 dies with him. Things go back to the way things were before the summer started. The ideas I will be using in my lessons are subjects I want ot get across to my students such as the plot of the story. I want my sents to know all about the characters and settings in teh story. I will be teaching my students all about symbolism this this book. I would like my students to know what the 20’s were like so they