1. JOURNAL 4B What is your idea of success and how do you plan to achieve it?

2. The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

3. The Old American Dream Ben Franklin's Formula for Success: RESOLUTION + FRUGALITY + INDUSTRY = SUCCESS (desire) (careful spending) (hard work) Puritan influence (morality) 13 Virtues (includes chastity, temperance, humility) Smart spending No leisure time

4. Decline of the American Dream New American Dream: RESOLUTION + ACTION = SUCCESS

5. Guiding Questions: Is the American Dream lost? What makes Jay Gatsby "great" according to Nick Carraway? What is the green light at the end of Daisy's dock? o What does it represent to Gatsby? o What does it represent to Fitzgerald? What roll does geography play in the story? o East Egg vs. West Egg o Valley of the Ashes o New York City o Eastern Seaboard vs. American West

6. The Great Gatsby (1925) POV: Nick Carraway (1st person narrator) TONE: Ambivalent -- approves and disapproves of Gatsby o Is Nick a reliable narrator? SETTING: Summer of 1922, Long Island, NY