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1 The Great Gatsby English 11 Ms. Freeman

2 What do you already know? About the 1920’s in America? About the Prohibition? What is the Prohibition? Where did people go to hang out? What was more prevalent, or widespread, now that the Prohibition was in the US?

3 Post WWI Standard of living increased for most Americans lived in urban areas The economy prospered-Americans wanted to forget troubles of the war: Frivolous spending habits Illegal liquor Immorality

4 The 1920’s AKA-The Jazz Age/Roaring Twenties Jazz was very popular in society—Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington Period of pleasure and reckless exuberance Flappers-liberated young women; wore short skirts, wore make-up, short hair, smoked and were unconventional

5 Prohibition 18 th Amendment to the Constitution-prohibited manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages THOUSANDS became bootleggers, people that smuggled liquor There were underground bars, or speakeasies

6 Videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GECsin42oS0 –A Nation of Drunkards https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GECsin42oS0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBEZz7BzdO4 – Women of Prohibition-Gender Barrier is Broken https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBEZz7BzdO4

7 Historical Connections F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote and set The Great Gatsby in the United States in the 1920s The Great Gatsby chronicles an era following the shock and chaos of WWI, the “Jazz Age/Roaring twenties”

8 The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby is known as one of the greatest American novels ever written. Here are some reasons as to why others think it is, but you will be the judge after we read the book http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2013/05/07/why-the-great-gatsby-is-the-great- american-novel/2130161/ --Five reasons http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2013/05/07/why-the-great-gatsby-is-the-great- american-novel/2130161/ http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCgQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vanschools.org%2FUserFolders%255Cbrownmg%255CGatsbypowerpoint.pptx&ei=E6EzU_OVHtfIsATcp4HoCQ&usg=AFQ jCNG-D7wxeP-i2PrcQmiG28tD5nQEQw&bvm=bv.63738703,d.cWc – POWERPOINT SOURCE

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