The Great Gatsby Reading, Assignment, and
Activity Calendar
In the publisher’s afterword of the 1995 edition
of the novel, Charles Scribner III wrote, “more
than sixty-five years since its publication, The
Great Gatsby stands as F. Scott Fitzgerald’s
masterpiece and indeed as a preeminent
masterpiece of twentieth-century American
literature. Today it is studied in high schools
and colleges across the land, where more copies
of this paperback edition are now sold annually
than the total cumulative sale of all editions
published throughout the author’s
lifetime….[Fitzgerald’s] immediate hope, of
course, was to write a thoroughly contemporary
novel about American society in the Twenties
and, at the same time, another instant success
like his first novel, This Side of Paradise. Yet he
might not be so startled today to discover that
his book had transcended its own age and
turned into a timeless classic” (195)
Motifs
Colors, Religion, Time, Weather/Season, Light/Dark
Important Themes Society and class, Gender roles, Education, Identity
Symbols
East Egg/West Egg, The Green Light, Valley of the Ashes,
Eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg
Formative Assessments:
 Read, annotate, and analyze specific passages from The Great Gatsby
 Complete a total of 5 short activities related to the assigned readings
 Deliver an oral presentation that focuses on character analysis
Summative Assessments:
 Daily Card Quizzes
 The Great Gatsby Project: a series of activities related to our reading of the text.
 Final Exam
Readings, Assignments, and Activities
Due Date
-Activity #1
Monday, February
3
Wednesday,
February 5
-Finish reading chapter one (Pages 1-21) and work on
Activity #2
-Read chapter 2 (Pages 23-38) and work on activity #2
-Read chapter 3 (Pages 39-59) and study for a written
reading quiz on chapters 1-3 and work on Activity #2
-Read chapter 4 and finish Activity #2
Thursday,
February 6
Friday, February 7
-Study for a reading Quiz on chapters 4-7 and do the
annotations and passage analysis
Monday, February
10
Tuesday,
February 11
Wednesday,
February 12
Friday, February
14
Monday, February
24
-Read chapter 8 (147 – 162) and work on Activity #4 and
#5
Tuesday,
February 25
-Read chapter 5 (81 – 96) and work on Activity #3
-Read chapter 6 (97 – 111) and work on Activity #3
- Read chapter 7 (113 – 145) and complete Activity #3
-Finish the book (163 – 180) and work on Activity #4 and Wednesday,
#5
February 26
- Study for Gatsby Exam and complete Activity #4
-Complete Activity #5
Friday, February
28
Monday, March 3