Honors English II Research - The Great Gatsby
Click on the database icon to visit the resource.
Click here for passwords. (SBHS Student and Staff access only.)
Gale is user-friendly and geared toward high school students, but it includes peer-reviewed articles of interest. Use the articles and bibliographies to help to compile a list of keywords for higher-level searching.
JStor is a college-level database. To use it successfully requires a sophisticated knowledge of your topic.
For the best results:
Use “The Great Gatsby “ around the book title
Use a boolean search
Consider your topic and create a search that best fits your terms.
If you get stuck, examine a bibliography to collect more keywords for JStor.
To help your research, take careful notes of your search terms and search strings. Find what works best for your topic.