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Questin g With Gatsby

Questin g With Gatsby. Why The Great Gatsby?. Relevant Themes In Our Culture? Do Say!. So Themes…Who Cares?. Behold The Structure!. The project is divided into three segments Classroom guided analysis of the novel Semi-guided WebQuest across different mediums

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Questin g With Gatsby

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  1. Questing With Gatsby

  2. Why The Great Gatsby?

  3. Relevant Themes In Our Culture? Do Say!

  4. So Themes…Who Cares?

  5. Behold The Structure! The project is divided into three segments • Classroom guided analysis of the novel • Semi-guided WebQuest across different mediums • A final poster project, set to bring it together.

  6. Why WebQuest With The Gatsby? The benefits of taking Jay Gatsby and his Frown Onto The WebQuest: • Allows the students to explore with a net. • Brings a dynamism to the project. Exploring the themes in different mediums can create more engrossing and relevant experiences.

  7. You Can Go From Kanye…

  8. To The Most Interesting Man in the World

  9. Yet The Teacher Is Guiding It provides a more interesting manner for kids to investigate the themes, with my help. The more students relate to ideas, the more they can internalize it. Thus: music videos, TV ads, and more.

  10. Lessons Learned: Vulgarity R Us Trying to discern what is appropriate for teenage eyes is difficult. Every advertisement had half-naked women, every music video I tried was…salty.

  11. Lessons Learned: Rubrics Are The Devil’s Tool There is a difficulty in making a rubric. Finding the precise language for standards. Discerning the different grades. Only more fun than: failing this assignment.

  12. Lessons Learned: Silence of the Vacuum Hard to assess the effectiveness of the assignment No classroom laboratory to try the experiment Teaching is hugely experiential, and I have no basis.

  13. The Future: WebQuests and Me WebQuests are a useful instructional tool. They provide a useful means for carrying text-based discussion into the digital world. I intend to use them, but not before several things.

  14. The Future: Mastering the Quest! First: Getting the confidence to implement such an activity. Secondly: An organic combination of novel and activity, where it makes sense. Finally: A refinement of the quest itself, making sure its “safe” for my students.

  15. The End

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