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=Stage 1 - Identify Desired Results= A2: Literary Texts, //The Great Gatsby// Grades 9-Diploma Students read text, within a grade appropriate span of text complexity, and present analysis of fiction using excerpts from the text to defend their assertions. ||
 * **Establish Goals (MLR):** **(G)** ||
 * Maine Learning Results: English Language Arts, A: Reading

//What understandings are desired?//
•the narrator effects the way we interpret characters and events. •there are several themes present in //The Great Gatsby//. ||
 * **//Students will understand that://** **(U)** ||
 * •Fitzgerald uses symbols to create meaning in the text.

//What essential questions will be considered?//
•How does the narrator's point of view effect the way we interpret characters and events? •How do we identify themes? ||
 * **Essential Questions:** **(Q)** ||
 * •Why are symbols in //The Great Gatsby// important to the way we interpret the meaning of the work?

//What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit?//
•__Important Events & Characters__: Gatsby, Nick, Daisy, Tom, Myrtle, George, Gatsby's death, The Valley of Ash, Party scenes, The eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg. •__Critical Details__: The Jazz Age, The 1920's, Long Island NY, New money, Gatsby's lavish parties, Gatsby's mysterious past, Nick's bias. || •describe one major theme from //The Great Gatsby.// •make meaning of a symbol in //The Great Gatsby.// •produce a cover or poster which expresses one major theme from //The Great Gatsby.// •analyze two or more symbols from //The Great Gatsby.// •consider how point of view effects the way we interpret plot. •be aware of Narrator biases. ||
 * **//Students will know://** **(K)** || **//Students will be able to://** **(S)** ||
 * •__Terminology__: Symbol, Theme, Narrator, Point of View, Plot, Imagery, Protagonist, Antagonist.


 * 2004 ASCD and Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe.**