Thirteen Tabs

There are a lot of Gatsby bundles on TPT. Most of them are collections of loosely related worksheets assembled around one novel. This is a full instructional unit built around three essential questions, designed to run from bell to bell every day for seven weeks. The unit teaches six texts, not one. Gatsby is the anchor, but students arrive there having already read Chopin, Carter, Seuss, Faulkner, and a Blast on beliefs and society. The performance task asks students to compare how expectation

Most Gatsby PowerPoints on TPT are teacher-facing note slides. Students copy definitions while the teacher talks. That's not what this is. Every slide in this deck is designed to be projected for students and used with them, not at them. The agenda slide at the start of every lesson tells students exactly what they're doing and what they're walking away with. Activity slides have built-in critical thinking prompts, not just step-by-step directions. Writing slides have the prompt, the goal, the f

The quizzes you see most on TPT for Gatsby are comprehension checks. 15 questions about what happened, self-graded in Google Forms, built to catch students who didn't read. That's a different tool for a different goal. These quizzes are analysis tools. Every multiple choice question requires inference and interpretation, not recall. The answer choices are deliberately the same length across all four options so students can't identify the correct answer by scanning for the longest one. That's a r

All 9 chapter quizzes in scaffolded format. Same questions as the standard version, but no reduced rigor. Adds: word bankvocabulary support boxsentence starters (labeled optional so students can cross out if they do not need them)chunked MC groups10 writing lines per section in printDigital and print versions for Chapters 1-5 and 6-9 included as separate files. Grading rubric included.

Most reading guides for Gatsby ask students to identify what happens. These ask students to think about what it means. Every chapter in these notes has four sections. A key events tracker where students log what actually happens. A symbol and imagery table where they track four symbols per chapter, each with its color and tone and an analytical prompt that pushes past naming into interpretation. Three guiding questions tied to the unit's essential questions: Beliefs and Identity, Weight of Expec

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