The Great Gatsby

Introduction

F. Scott Fitzgerald

• New York Times Obit :• http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/12/24/sp

ecials/fitzgerald-obit.html

• 1896-1940 • Minnesota, New Jersey, Paris, Hollywood

F. Scott Fitzgerald in Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzoOA473wq0#

Ernest Hemingway: A Moveable Feast

New York City

New York City – 1920’s

1920’s America• Prohibition

• The Boom

• The Lawless Decade

• The Roaring Twenties

• The Jazz Age

• The Golden Age of Sports

• Harlem Renaissance

Group Research Project

• Research one aspect of the 1920’s

• Make a short (5 minute) presentation

• Possibilities: skit, drawings, collage, music, photographs

• Include one discussion question for the class