ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
• http://school.discovery.com/lesson plans/programs/greatbooks-greatgatsby/ - This site is a web quest/lesson plan on the Great Gatsby, complete with objectives, discussion questions, links for additional research on the Jazz Age. •http://www.homework-online.com/tgg/index.asp - This web site is part of the Literary Department of Homework Online. It has been created to help students and readers of F. Scott Fitzgerald's famous story The Great Gatsby better understand the novel. Included in this site are summaries and explanations,character analysis, discussion of themes, a user's forum where readers can discuss and ask questions, and much more. •http://www.online-literature.com/fitzgerald/greatgatsby/
- A searchable online version of The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Includes author information.
•http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/default.htm-
(A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust) This has
thousands of resources
for teachers and students including photographs, documents, art, music,and
literature. A timeline,further resources, and student activities are
also available. •http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/schindler/ -(Oskar Schindler: An Unlikely Hero) Learn about the life of Schindler and get information on traveling exhibitions.
• http://www.pbs.org/theblues/index.html-This
website explains the importance of teaching this topic and it talks
about different activities that you can have students do. •http://www.southernmusic.net/1920.htm-This
website is a basic timeline of the development of the blues starting
in 1920 and ending in 1929. •http://www.wnpt.net/deford/music/influences2.html-
This website gives a brief description of the
early music in the 1920's. •http://academic.uofs.edu/student/PENDRAKS2/page2.html-
This website discusses the background of the blues
and it also shows how the slaves used it. •http://www.geocities.com/bass1344/musicofthe1920s-This website talks about all the different types of music that were popular in the 1920's and gives some background on each one.
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LESSON PLAN IDEAS
• The Colorful Wizard of Oz- http://plaza.ufl.edu/lindsmeg/oz/wizlp.htm- • Poetry, Colors and Numbers- http://plaza.ufl.edu/lindsmeg/oz/whitlp.htm • Schlinder's List, is it only Black and White? - http://plaza.ufl.edu/lindsmeg/oz/schlp.htm • Learning by Doing Shakespeare - http://plaza.ufl.edu/steph444/dramasymbolism.html |