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Dumbing Down 'Gatsby' - Teaching Now - Education Week Teacher - 0 views

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  • But book blogger Jessica Crispin thinks Ebert is overreacting. She argues that students shouldn't necessarily be deprived of a "universal" storyline just because the prose is over their heads. Besides, she says, this sort of thing has been going on for decades, with little known harm done to aspiring readers. She recalls reading young readers' adaptations of Great Expectations and A Tale of Two Cities when she was a kid
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      Erin G on 01 Aug 11
       
      I can see both sides here: I think that great American novels are works of art that should not be "dumbed down" or modified just so that people intimated by the difficult prose can know the story. However, I think for children reading abridged or modified versions of classics get introduced to the themes and stories in a friendly way. As Cripsin later says, this never discouraged her from reading the "real" version later when she was ready.
  • young adult novel
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      Erin G on 01 Aug 11
       
      I like this idea of using a YA novel as a bridge to the canon!
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The Washington Ballet: The Great Gatsby - The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing... - 0 views

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  • splendor of the Jazz Age and the frivolity of the Roaring Twenties through Artistic Director Septime Webre's re-imagining of F. Scott Fitzgerald's passionate, thought-provoking, and complex work.
  • Erin G on 31 Jul 11
     
    Though this event already took place, I think it is cool to think about how Fitzgerald's work could be translated into a ballet! Neat!
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Great Gatsby Treasure Hunt - 0 views

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  • Erin G on 31 Jul 11
     
    A fun "scavenger hunt"-type site to learn more about The Great Gatsby!
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  • Contributing to the Klan's growth was a post-war depression in agriculture, the migration of African Americans into Northern cities, and a swelling of religious bigotry and nativism in the years after World War I. Klan members considered themselves defenders of Prohibition, traditional morality, and true Americanism.
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      Erin G on 22 Jul 11
       
      Tom Buchanan, Daisy's husband, seems to have a KKK mentality when it comes to "white power" and "true Americanism"
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  • Erin G on 30 Jul 11
     
    Walter Biggs was an artist in the early 20th century. His paintings of women reflect the time period in which he lived, and Fitzgerald may have based his character(s) of Daisy and/or Jordan Baker off of Biggs' work.
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The Great Gatsby's Relation to and Importance as a Work of Art - Student Pulse - 0 views

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  • artist, Howard Chandler Christy, specialized in presenting a type of a beautiful girl, the dream of any soldier, which seems to float before Gatsby (as Daisy, of course), as he must have imagined her while he was in the war (Reed 28). “Christy’s girl” seems to dream, revealing nothing of her persona but her extraordinary beauty-and thus her seemingly shallowness becomes crowned by a mysterious aura
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      Erin G on 30 Jul 11
       
      This is very interesting! I would like to see this paintings of "Christy's girl"....
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      Erin G on 30 Jul 11
       
      Here is an image of a girl that was popular in the 1920s. Sometimes Daisy from The Great Gatsby can be compared to this image of a woman.
  • The way Christy drew her, she was popular with the males because of her charm,
  • "Christy girl," and Christy used her image in books, magazines, calendars, and even patriotic posters. Christy once stated that the "Christy girl" was "High-bred, aristocratic and dainty though not always silken-skirted; a woman with tremendous self-respect
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    Fitzgerald's classic
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The Demise of the 1920s American Dream in The Great Gatsby - InfoRefuge.com - 0 views

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  • “Not only did he flourish in the fast-paced, modern urban milieu of skyscrapers, taxicabs, and pleasure-seeking crowds, but he proclaimed himself an expert on the latest crazes in fashion, contemporary lingo, and popular pastimes.”
    • Erin G
      Erin G on 30 Jul 11
       
      This is a very accurate description of Jay Gatsby.
  • “conspicuous consumption” which so accurately describes much of what was occurring in The Great Gatsby was trying to convey that the people who had not been raised with money and came into riches and wealth on their on attempted to demand respect and esteem by showing it off through purchases.
  • The wealth and power must be put into evidence.”
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  • growth of a leisure class
  • subverted the foundations of the Protestant ethic, replacing the values of hard work and thrifty abstinence with a show of luxury and idleness
  • Although he loves her, he undeniably also sees her as a material commodity, much the way he views his home.
    • Erin G
      Erin G on 30 Jul 11
       
      Do you think this is true? Does Gatsby see Daisy as a trophy or prize to attain and show off? I think this is certainly possible.
  • Automobiles also played an important role in the culture of the 1920s
  • “The cultural obsession with commodities allows an ordinary automobile to transcend its functional purpose to become and embodiment of dreams.” (O’Meara)
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    1920s chart with pictures showing the progressive decline of a drunkard
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"The Roaring Twenties" - "The 1920's" - Arts & Literature - 1 views

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      Erin G on 22 Jul 11
       
      New dances, such as the Charleston, came about in the 1920s.
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    The Roaring Twenties was alternatively known as The Jazz Age. This "movement" in which jazz music grew in popularity by immense standards in the U.S., also influenced other parts of the world. Following World War I, around 500,000 African Americans in search of better employment opportunities moved to the northern part of the United States.
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    Since the 1920s was a time of celebration, there were many fads. People loved to dance, especially the Charleston, Fox-trot, and the shimmy. Dance marathons were something everyone went to every weekend. The longest dance record ever recorded was a record of 3 weeks of dancing. Another fad of the 1920's was the radio.
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    Sound like a genius ... in 60 seconds.™
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