No matter how often I teach Gatsby I find it hard. Each time, the ambiguity of the central character and the lack of sympathy I have for anyone in the text get in my way. As I prepare to work on it again for my OCR A level class, I thought I’d summarise my thoughts to date using a setting and character approach. Hence the recent raft of posts. Here I post the whole notes document in PDF and a timeline of events in the novel alongside the contextual timeline for Fitzgerald and the USA.
A site to share my resources for secondary English teaching.
The Trouble With Schools
An imposter's guide to effective schools
The Hyperbolit School
Your trusty Englit guide
Khambay's Words, Words, Words
Words, words, words... well said Hamlet! A little blog to go off on tangents within the worlds of history and literature that interest me. From the Tudors to Tom Hardy's Tess, or from the Wars of the Roses to Wuthering Heights, feel free to browse through my musings to pick up extra ideas and points for discussion!
A Teacher's Writes
by Geoffrey Sheehy
English Remnant World
What can a middle aged English teacher possibly find to write about?
JMB
my ideas and thoughts on teaching Secondary School English
Team English
A blog for all things #TeamEnglish
alwayslearningweb
Like the students I teach, I am always learning.
Trivium 21c ltd.
Preparing young people for the future with lessons from the past.
Mark Roberts Teach
Thoughts and ideas about words, stories and what works best in the classroom and beyond
The Traditional Teacher
' . . . to make the best that has been thought and known in the world current everywhere . . .'
Starter for Five
Crowd Sourced Advice For New Teachers
Journeys in english
An English teacher's musings.
The English Echo Chamber
There's more to life than books, you know. But not much more
English Teaching Resources 