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The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald. 2/4/11 Ellen Bakalian, Ph.D. Dept of Classics and General Humanities MSU bakaliane@mail.montclair.edu. A&E Educator ’ s Guides. Used to produce films of the Classics Tess, Great Gatsby, Vanity Fair, Lorna Doone, Tom Jones…. But…budget cuts….

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The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  1. The Great GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald 2/4/11 Ellen Bakalian, Ph.D. Dept of Classics and General Humanities MSU bakaliane@mail.montclair.edu

  2. A&E Educator’s Guides • Used to produce films of the Classics • Tess, Great Gatsby, Vanity Fair, Lorna Doone, Tom Jones…. • But…budget cuts…

  3. Teacher resources • Teachers given clearance to tape the films and freely use them in the classroom • Educator Guides available for downloading or snail mail • Now: A&E “Gatsby” film on Amazon for $10 • my Educator Guide is no longer on website because they no longer own the distributor rights to the film

  4. Available Resources • AETV classroom study guides: • http://www.aetv.com/class/teach/

  5. AETV Biography • AETV Biography Classroom guides: • http://www.biography.com/classroom/study-guides/study-guides-bio.jsp • Search by Poet, Playwright, Writer • F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Dickinson, Charles Dickens… • Historians run the department

  6. AETV • F. Scott Fitzgerald: “Great American Dreamer” • http://www.biography.com/classroom/study-guides/f_scott_fitzgerald_great_american_dreamer.jsp • Idea Book • Links: Library of Congress, Teachers First, History Channel, Smithsonian…

  7. Biography Classroom Clips • AETV Biography – 2 minute film • http://www.biography.com/articles/F.-Scott-Fitzgerald-9296261 • AETV Biography Classroom Clips • http://www.biography.com/video.do?name=bioclassroom • Dickens, Austen, Poe, Angelou, Shakespeare, The Founding Fathers, Lincoln, Rockefeller, Margaret Sanger

  8. Available Resources • PBS website: • American Storyteller’s Biography on Fitzgerald • http://www.pbs.org/kteh/amstorytellers/

  9. University South Carolina • http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/fitzgerald/intro.html • The Matthew J. & Arlyn Bruccoli Collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald • most comprehensive research collection for the study and teaching of Fitzgerald…. • Books, Manuscripts, Proofs, Letters, Scripts, Photos….

  10. F. Scott Fitzgerald Centenary • http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/ • Univ. of South Carolina • Site launched in 1996, 100th anniversary of his birth • designed to increase awareness of Fitzgerald • his writings, his life, and his relationship with other writers of the twentieth century • website draws from the Bruccoli Collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald at the Thomas Cooper Library, USC

  11. Gatsby and popular culture • Classroom activity: • Find songs that tie into the themes of Gatsby • Time • Taylor Swift song “Back to December”(12/2010) • “go back to December and make it all right” • “love you right this time”

  12. Moral Depravity & Reality TV • Exploring the moral depravity and vacuous lives of Jordan Baker and the Buchanans • Contrasting The Jersey Shore? Housewives of NJ?

  13. Suggested books • Matthew J. Bruccoli • anything he edits on Fitzgerald • Harold Bloom • new interpretations, Spring 2010 

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