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4. With some of your classmates (no more than 6), stage a Roaring
Twenties Party of the type that Gatsby might have hosted (minus
the alcohol). Serve one or two of the dishes described in the
book and provide music from the period. In a written report,
provide the passages from the book that you used as references
for your party. Be sure to dress the part.
10. Adapt a scene from the book into a short film to be presented to
the class. Again your script must stay true to the text.
13. Locate the lyrics to one or more songs of the Jazz Age.
Reproduce the lyrics for your classmates, and in an oral or
written report, comment on how the lyrics suggest an essential
mood or idea in The Great Gatsby. Then do the same for one or
more songs from today. Finally, comment on why you think
music can be an important expression of the values or concerns
of a time period.
14. Tom Buchanan quotes ideas about race from a book called A
Rising Tide of Color by Lothrop Stoddard. Locate and read this
book or research the history of black-white relations in the
1920s. Summarize your findings in a written report and
comment on how those relations form part of the historical
backdrop of the novel.
16. You have probably seen critics giving their opinions about
movies. Often one critic gives the movie a “thumbs up” while
the other rates the same film “thumbs down.” Produce a similar
program about The Great Gatsby. The program should have two
reviewers. IT could be presented live or videotaped. Reviewers
should know ahead of time what topics will be discussed so they
have time to prepare. Each reviewer should have sections of the
novel ready to read to support his/her points about each topic.
Possible topics include:
i. The most interesting characters
ii. The most exciting (or boring) parts of the book
iii. Themes (such as greed, right or wrong, the
pursuit of s dream, etc.)
iv. Qualities that make The Great Gatsby worth (or
not worth) reading
v.
17. Create a children’s book that follows the ideas & themes found in
The Great Gatsby; however, modify the story in order for it to be
appropriate for children. In other words, lose the alcohol and the
affairs…which makes it a challenge.
19. Write 3-4 original songs that reflect the themes and ideas of The
Great Gatsby. Have one song be based on one of the characters
from the novel.
21. This entire novel was told from Nick Caraway’s perspective.
Take one of the sections from the novel and retell it from a
different character’s perspective. (You are not retelling the
entire novel, simply a section.)
From
http://teachers.sduhsd.k12.ca.us/dbrunkhorst/documents/TheGreatGat
sbyProject_000.doc
22. The most popular project might be to make a video. One of the
best and funniest I have heard was The Beverly Hillbillies Meet
The Great Gatsby. Another group composed “The Great Gatsby
Bunch” based on the Brady Bunch (Here's the story of a man
named Gatsby, Who was rivals with this real mean guy named
Tom. Both of them were much hung up on Daisy, Who was just
Da Bomb!)
23. Take Gatsby’s most pivotal scenes and make them into a pop-up
book format.
From www.teachervision.fen.com/novels/resource/2925.html