Following is information to assist you in your study of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Read the material at each site carefully and take notes - you will be responsible for all material at each site.

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1. Where did Fitzgerald attend school?

2. Where did he meet his wife?

3. Why were the Roaring Twenties so dubbed?

4. What are four possible themes of the novel according to this page?

http://www.crowley.k12.tx.us/chp/NCHS%20library/great_gatsby_project.htm

5. What famous relative is Fitzgerald named for?

6. Do some research on these related links, and write an outline based on the information you learn on the jazz age.

http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/

7. Where did Fitzgerald meet Hemingway?

8. What argument about writing material came between Fitzgerald and his wife?

9. Read any two of the essays and articles and write brief descriptions of each.

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10. Describe "flappers."

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