Expanding Teaching Repertoires Through Styles and Strategies The Great Gatsby Menu Assignment Directions- you must complete four assignments for this unit. Choose one from each difficulty level, and one from each learning style.

difficulty level	Mastery	Understanding	Self-Expressive	Interpersonal
1. Choose five new vocabulary words from the first three chapters. Make a collage out of magazines or newspaper clippings to illustrate their meanings.	What possible things could Gatsby have done in order to avoid the confrontation that happens in chapter seven? How could he have changed the events in the book by addressing the issue sooner?	Write a ten-page journal for one of the main characters. Gatsby, Nick, Tom or Daisy. Use a specific part in the book to help you start the journal. The entries should include their own personal thoughts, emotions, motives, schemes, etc.	You are an old War buddy of Gatsby's. You run into him on the street. He confides everything about Daisy. What advice do you give him?
2. Create a time line for the 1920's. Use a large piece of butcher paper, so that the time line can be displayed in the classroom. Include historical events, fashion trends, political decisions, the stock market crash, etc. Use clippings, pictures, drawings, etc. ORFind an example for each of the following in the chapters that we have read: pun, personification, simile, and metaphor. Explain each example.	F. Scott Fitzgerald was one of America's finest authors. The Great Gatsby could have several different endings. Find three places in the book where some different action could have happened and then changed the outcome of the novel. Explain what could have happened and the consequential outcome.	Find a partner or partners and choose a portion of the play that you can perform in about 3-5 minutes. Rehearse carefully and perform for the class. ORBe a reporter. Write news broadcast on the death of Myrtle. Prepare a short news blurb that you can prepare and perform for the class.	Interview at least five students in the class. Your interviews should focus on the question, "Does money buy happiness?" Make a conclusion after organizing your information and prepare to share with the class.
3. Compare and contrast the differences between the 1920's and the 1990's. Use specific details from the novel and specific current events and trends. ORAfter reading the complete novel watch the movie. Which did you like better? Why? What were the similarities? What would you have changed about the book? About the movie? Prepare an oral report about your opinions on the book and the movie.	Nick says that he believes that he is an honest person. Do you agree with him? Prepare an argument that defends your thoughts. Use excerpts from the novel and actions that he does to prove your point. OR Do some research and prepare an oral report on the Roaring 20's. Use movie clips, music, have an interview with someone who lived during that time. Make posters, etc. Prepare to share your report with the whole class.	Make a movie preview for a modern production of The Great Gatsby. Use music and clips. It should be just like a movie preview. Something that wets the viewer's appetite and excites him to watch the movie. ORMake character charts for each of the characters. They can be collages, drawings, and pieces of material from the clothes they would wear. These need to be visual charts that describe the characters. Include a "spine line" for each character.	Write a series of love letters send back and forth between Gatsby and Daisy. (A series means more than two!) The letters should reflect on the characters- they should be hand written and have a little dash of the characters personality. (For example, Gatsby might add a dash of cologne to his letters.) Be creative. K. Nuzman