The Great Gatsby - RM Education.docVIP

AS Assessment Focuses The examination will assess a candidate’s ability to: AO1 communicate clearly the knowledge, understanding and insight appropriate to literary study, using appropriate terminology and accurate and coherent written expression AO2i respond with acknowledge and understanding to literary texts of different types and periods AO3 show detailed understanding of the ways in which writers’ choices of form, structure and language shape meanings AO4 articulate independent opinions and judgements, informed by different interpretations of literary texts by other readers AO5i show understanding of the contexts in which literary texts are written and understood. Textual Annotation: Candidates are permitted to take their text into the examination room. Texts taken into the examination may contain only brief marginal annotation, within the body of the text itself (i.e. excluding any other areas of the book). Such annotation should amount to no more than cross-references and/or the glossing of individual words or phrases. Highlighting and underlining is permitted. Annotations going beyond individual words or phrases, or amounting to aidesmemoire or notes towards the planning of essays are not permitted. Insertion of pages, loose sheets, post-its or any other form of notes or additional material is not permitted. List of Resources: Lessons The Gatsby Treasure Hunt /gatsby/gatsbyhunt.html The Roaring Twenties Powerpoint Front Cover Image Guided Reading Questions (Chapter 2) Daisy and Myrtle Comparison Chart Map worksheet Teacher copy of completed map The Great Gatsby Quotations (from teachit) Guided Reading Questions (Chapter 5) Image and Theme Tracker Sheet ‘Who said it?’ Quotation Quest Guided Reading Questions (Chapter 7) Generic Mark Band Descriptors Sorting Activity The Great Gatsby Timeline (see teachit website) ‘Was the Great Gatsby a black man?’ article from The Observer Nasty Nick: The Other Side of the Unjudgemental Narrator’ (see teachit) The Great Ga