The Great Gatsby: An Instructional Guide for Literature is the perfect tool to familiarize students with this well—known novel and encourage them to connect the story with actual events and issues from the 1920s. By completing rigorous and appealing cross—curricular lessons and activities, students will learn to analyze story elements in multiple ways, practice close reading and text—based vocabulary, determine meaning through text—dependent questions, and more. Each activity and lesson work in conjunction with the text to teach students how to analyze and comprehend rich, complex literature.