THREE Character Maps on Fitzgerald's THE GREAT GATSBY - PDF & Slides - NO PREP!

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This is a complete set of character maps for F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.

Students place the names of 20 characters (and a few locations & symbols) found in each of the three thirds of the novel within the context of character relationships. The three maps cover Ch. 1-3, Ch. 4-6, and Ch. 7-9. As your students finish reading each of the three sets of chapters of the novel, these maps work to help them visualize and recall the relationships between characters that they've read about.

This PDF contains seven pages (three maps, three keys, and a title page with a link for copying the Google Presentation (slides) document where each map can be found on a different slide). Each map on the Google document contains a word bank for help in placing names on the maps. A copy of this document (minus the keys) can then be shared with students to fill in and submit in your LMS. Maps can be modified through the Google Slides Theme Builder (view > Theme builder).

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WHERE CHARACTER MAPS MIGHT FIT INTO A LOGICALLY-CONSTRUCTED LITERARY UNIT:

•  At the beginning of a full literary unit, I like to first have students complete a Meet the Author biography research document. 
• Then, before students dive into the work, I want them to understand the difficult vocabulary they’ll encounter by having them complete a prereading vocabulary puzzle.
• Over the course of several weeks, students have reading assignments, take Reading Quizzes and complete a Character Map on the work just after each reading quiz. During these weeks, students are also working on other things—usually involving grammar, writing style, and literary devices.
• Once we’ve completed the reading of the work,(usually around week 4 or 5) I have students complete a Plot Structure Mapping lesson so that students have a clear understanding of how the work is chronologically organized and how the major events of the work—including causes and effects associated with the inciting event, climax, and denouement—are tied in with conflicts and theme. 
• After students have a clear grasp of plot analysis, I then begin having students focus on themes, motifs and symbols in the work through a Hexagonal Thinking game/lesson and develop a Literary Analysis Web in preparation for a literary analysis essay. 
• From here, students should be quite capable of writing a literary argument essay on how the author utilizes these and other techniques to create meaning (themes) in the work. After a bit of peer editing & revising, this last essay serves as a cumulative assessment.

Looking for additional Gatsby materials? . . .

• Click HERE if you're looking for Sparknotes-proof reading quizzes, movie questions, Hexagonal Thinking maps, Plot Structure Analysis maps, and other Great Gatsby-related materials.

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