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THE EXCESS OF BAZ LUHRMANN: TEACHING THE GREAT GATSBY IN THE HIGH SCHOOL CLASSROOM

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 December 2014

Seth MacLowry
Seth MacLowry*
Affiliation:
Maine West High School, Des Plaines, IL
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e-mail: [email protected]
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The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , January 2015 , pp. 127 - 131
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Copyright © Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 2015 

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References

NOTES

1 Philip French, “The Great Gatsby—Review,” The Observer, May 18, 2013.

2 Fitzgerald, F. Scott, The Great Gatsby (New York, 2004), 35Google Scholar.

3 Fitzgerald, Great Gatsby, 175.

4 Fitzgerald, Great Gatsby, 98.

5 Fitzgerald, Great Gatsby, 110.

6 Fitzgerald, Great Gatsby, 111.

7 Fitzgerald, F. Scott, “Echoes of the Jazz Age” in My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920–1940, ed. West, James L. III (New York, 2005), 132–133Google Scholar.

8 Fitzgerald, “Echoes,” 132.

9 Fitzgerald, Great Gatsby, 74–75.

10 Fitzgerald, Great Gatsby, 149.

11 “Common Core State Standards Initiative,” http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/RL/11-12/ (accessed Sept. 18, 2014).

12 This lesson plan was produced by Horalia Armas, Matt Dumke, Melissa English, Ian Mann, and Melissa Okrzesik. I would like to thank them for allowing me to share it with readers of JGAPE.

13 George, Henry, quoted in Edwards, Rebecca, New Spirits: Americans in the Gilded Age, 1865–1985 (New York, 2006), 9–10Google Scholar.

14 Fitzgerald, Great Gatsby, 5.

15 Fitzgerald, Great Gatsby, 23.

16 Fitzgerald, Great Gatsby, 120.

17 Drew DeSilver, “U.S. Income Inequality, on Rise for Decades, is Now Highest Since 1928,” Pew Foundation, http://www.pewresearch.org/ (accessed December 15, 2013).

18 , Jay-Z, “100$ Bill,” Music From Baz Luhrmann's Film, The Great Gatsby, Water Tower Music/Interscope, 2013Google Scholar.