The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald - Audiobook available in the CHS library.

Honors Extension Text (choose 1)

• Fences by August Wilson
• Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

Poetry (choose 2 or 3)

• "I Saw a Man Pursuing the Horizon" by Stephen Crane
• "Harlem" by Langston Hughes
• "I Hear America Singing" by Walt Whitman
• "I, Too" by Langston Hughes
• "Dreams" by Langston Hughes
• "Island" by Langston Hughes
• "Brother Can You Spare a Dime" (lyrics) by Yip Harburg Video sung by Bing Crosby Videosung by Rudy Vallee
• "On the Pulse of Morning" by Maya Angelou Video, read by Maya Angelou at the Presidential inauguration of Barack Obama
• "Praise Song for the Day" by Elizabeth Alexander, Video read by Elizabeth Alexander at the Presidential inauguration of Barack Obama
• "One Today" by Richard Blanco Video read by Richard Blanco at the Presidential inauguration of Barack Obama

Multimedia

• "The Great Gatsby" (film) - Available in the CHS library (library has Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert Redford and Paul Rudd versions)

The library also recommends:

Documentaries/Movies:

• Prohibition by PBS/Ken Burns

Short Videos:

• The Great Gatsby Part 1: Like Pale Gold from Crash Course Literature
• The Great Gatsby Part 2: Was Gatsby Great? from Crash Course Literature
• The Roaring Twenties from Crash Course US History

Websites:

• "How Gatsby Went from Moldering Flop to Great American Novel" from NPR Fresh Air

Articles:

• The Great Gatsby from Novels for Students
• The Great Gatsby from Literature and Its Times
• F. Scott Fitzgerald from Major 21st Century Writers
• The American Dream from the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences

Books:

• Bright Young Things by Anne Godberson

Historical Nonfiction

• "1st Inaugural Address" (audio and video) by Franklin Delano Roosevelt Text only Primary Source (PDF)

Contemporary Nonfiction

• "A Korean Discovers New York" by Younghill Kang

Critical Essay

• "F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Collapse of the American Dream" by Marius Bewley (Modern Critical Voices) - Available in the CHS library.