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Reading Against the Grain in The Great Gatsby

By cheryl_brand
Grade Level
9-12
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LEARNING PLAN
Essential Question
  • How do the dynamics of power and privilege influence access to and distribution of resources and opportunities?
  • What are the most influential forces that drive human behavior?
  • Why is our society so obsessed with The Great Gatsby?
Texts
Visual

Crazy Versus Eccentric

In this ironic cartoon, the same man is depicted twice—once with tattered clothing and unkept body hair as a poor man and a second time in a suit with a clean-cut image as a rich man. As a poor man, he's regarded as crazy, but as a rich man, he's eccentric.
by
Andy Singer
Grade Level
6-8 9-12
Topic
Class
Social Justice Domain
Justice
July 2, 2014
Teaching Strategies
Close and Critical Reading

Reading Against the Grain

In reading against the grain students analyze the dominant reading of a text and engage in alternative or "resistant" readings. Resistant readings scrutinize the beliefs and attitudes that typically go unexamined in a text, drawing attention to the gaps, silences and contradictions.
Grade Level
6-8 9-12
CCSS
RL.6-12.1, RL.6-12.2, RL.6-12.6, RI.6-12.1, RI.6-12.2, RI.6-12.6
July 19, 2014
Plan Built By
Cheryl

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