I started this two-parter with a list of nonfiction books about the life and times of The Great Gatsby’s author, F. Scott Fitzgerald. In this post, I’m going to stretch the time period a little bit and offer some nonfiction about some of the themes that resonated most with me from the book.
Contents contributed and discussions participated by Enid Baines
Gatsby in Real Life: Nonfiction on the Themes of Gatsby | BOOK RIOT - 33 views
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a list of nonfiction books about the life and times of The Great Gatsby’s author, F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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a list of nonfiction books about the life and times of The Great Gatsby’s author, F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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Oct. 2 is Book Deluge Day 2012 - latimes.com - 26 views
altered books - StumbleUpon - 21 views
Top 10 Ways to Wake-up Students in Class - SimpleK12 - 51 views
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. Require students to give answers in their best British accent.
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Have Chuck Norris randomly appear in one of your Power Points roundhouse kicking a wolf. For some reason, students are obsessed with him.
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Play a sound clip of the Mission Impossible theme, have them act as 007 until the music stops. Then, whoever they end up next to, that is their partner for the activity
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A Step by Step Guide on how to Find Licensed Images for Use in The Classroom - 113 views
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A Step by Step Guide on how to Find Licensed Images for Use in The Classroom
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PSA: Don't Let Salami and Google Images Get You In Hot Water -Edublogs - education blog... - 130 views
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This is a true story.
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Three years ago, an eleven-year-old blogger here on Edublogs wrote a post about his favorite lunch food – salami.
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Our Edublogs support team just received a lengthy cease and desist letter from a large law firm that represents the photographer of the salami photo.
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Shared this with my students and we decided to create a class Diigo library of public domain images to help reduce everyone's legwork. It takes a little while longer to find pictures, but it's worth it.
Activity 7: Fair use, copyright, and introduction to using images | Edublogs Teacher Ch... - 82 views
The Presurfer: Banned Books - 25 views
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During Bookmans' 36-year fight against censorship, the shattered light bulb emerged as a powerful symbol of the importance of free speech.
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In this video, combining passages from banned books read by customers and employees, Bookmans created a statement about how books inform, engage and inspire the light in each of us.
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Bookmans, an independent bookstore with six locations in Arizona, created this video for the 2012 Banned Books Week Virtual Read-Out.
10,000 Retired Books Create 'Literature Versus Traffic' Installation | Inthralld - 3 views
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a simple objective for the installation: “literature took control of the streets and became the conquerer of the public space.”
You Can't Just Google It! | Xtranormal - 168 views
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You Can't Just Google It!
Mysterious paper sculptures « Central Station - 37 views
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A mysterious new Twitter account called “a book for xmas” has appeared and is tweeting @ various recipients of sculptures and others involved.
In Gatsby's Tracks: Locating the Valley of Ashes in a 1924 Photo | Literary Kicks - 54 views
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In Gatsby's Tracks: Locating the Valley of Ashes in a 1924 Photo
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Desolate enough? The sight of workers toiling among these giant piles may have even reminded Fitzgerald of Dante, and Fitzgerald's real-life encounter with this spot must have played a part in the genesis of the entire novel.
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If Gatsby's caravan took this southern route, the railroad and highway would have merged exactly as described in the novel. Here, then, is the bridge they would have crossed. I can't tell for sure that it's a drawbridge, but I'm willing to believe it must be one. The tiny settlement to the right, then, is exactly the spot where Dr. Eckleburg's billboard would have stood, and where George Wilson would have kept his auto garage.
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Lesson plans | Taylor Mali - 5 views
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Lesson plans Lesson Plans, Poetry Prompts & Assignments for Teachers
Newspaper Takes A Stand On Anonymous Commenters : NPR - 17 views
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The Internet is slowly becoming a less anonymous place. YouTube has a new policy encouraging commenters to use their real names, and many news sites have switched to a login system run by Facebook.
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News sites that still allow anonymous comments are finding there are legal risks.
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But many journalists — even those on the Spokesman-Review staff — aren't so sure a newspaper should go to the mat to protect an anonymous commenter.
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Will Power's Shakespeare/Hip Hop Mashup Sets Caliban To A Beat. Because The Olympics, G... - 73 views
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Will Power, playwright, rapper, teacher, and possessor of a name you always hope exists but never know for sure, just released a "Tempest"/hip hop mashup.
Copyright & Fair Use @Web English Teacher - 131 views
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Copyright and Fair Use: Information and Lesson Plans
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Copyright Infringment or Not? The Debate over Downloading Music
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Copyright Criminals
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Copyright - Playing with Media - 56 views
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Attribution, in the form of a thorough “Works Cited” section of a document or project, does NOT guarantee full copyright compliance in the United States. Judges ruling on intellectual property cases never write, “The defendant created a great bibliography, so I find find him not guilty of these charges.”
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We would never accept the following entry in a written, student bibliography in a research paper: "I found this information in the school library."
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We should not accept student media projects which include similar, non-specific attribution statements like “Images from Google” or “Images from Flickr.”
A Fair(y) Use Tale | Center for Internet and Society - 86 views
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A Fair(y) Use Tale
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Professor Eric Faden of Bucknell University created this humorous, yet informative, review of copyright principles delivered through the words of the very folks we can thank for nearly endless copyright terms.
Your Favorite: 100 Best-Ever Teen Novels - 92 views
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Author Responds to Student Begging for Summary of Required Read
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I love that teachers and writers admit to not reading books that were assigned. I wouldn't have read "The Scarlet Letter" either if I wasn't the one who had to assign it.
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Guessing Game: ‘The Lord of the Rings’ as Written by Other Famous Authors - Flavorwire
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Enid Baines
English teacher, Tech Cadre Co-Chair. Officially, I teach English. Unofficially, I teach digital media to colleagues. According to my kids, I say things like, "Blah, blah, blah, Cloud."