Literature Guide: The Great Gatsby [Paperback]

Kristen Bowers (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 2005 | ISBN-10: 0976817713 | ISBN-13: 978-0976817710 | Edition: 3

As a busy teacher, you don't have time to waste reinventing the wheel. You want to get down to the business of teaching. Finally, you can address the content standards while you teach the required core literature! Our professionally developed, teacher-written, reproducible Literature Guides place the emphasis on the content standards, while providing you with the activities and materials you need to help your students understand and evaluate the novels and other literature that you are required to teach. Secondary Solutions® has provided you with the answer to your time management problems, saving you hours of tedious and exhausting work. No more researching, creating, writing, editing and printing your own educational materials. Everything you need has been done for you! Our Guides will allow you to focus on the most important aspects of teaching—the personal, one-on-one, hands-on instruction you enjoy most—the reason you became a teacher in the first place! Secondary Solutions® provides all the necessary worksheets and materials for complete coverage of the literature units of study, including author biographies, pre-reading activities, numerous and varied vocabulary and comprehension activities, study-guide questions, graphic organizers, literary analysis and critical thinking activities, essay writing ideas, sample rubrics, extension activities, quizzes, unit tests, alternative assessment, online teacher assistance, and much, much more. Each Guide is designed to address the unique learning styles and comprehension levels of every student in your classroom. All materials are written and presented at the grade level of the learner, and include extensive coverage of the content standards. As an added bonus, all teacher materials are included!

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Secondary Solutions® is the endeavor of a high school English teacher who could never seem to find appropriate materials to help her students master the necessary concepts at the secondary level. She grew tired of spending countless hours researching, creating, writing, and revising lesson plans, worksheets, quizzes, tests and extension activities to motivate and inspire her students, and at the same time, address those ominous content standards! Before the inception of Secondary Solutions®, materials that were available were either juvenile in nature, skimpy in content, or were moderately engaging activities that did not come close to meeting the content standards on which her students were being tested. Frustrated and tired of trying to get by with inappropriate, inane lessons, she finally decided that if the right materials were going to be available to her and other teachers, she was going to have to make them herself! Mrs. Bowers set to work to create one of the most comprehensive and innovative Literature Guide sets on the market. Joined by a middle school teacher with 21 years of secondary school experience, Secondary Solutions® began, and has matured into a specialized team of intermediate and secondary teachers who have developed for you a set of materials unsurpassed by all others.

Product Details

• Paperback: 56 pages
• Publisher: Secondary Solutions; 3 edition (July 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0976817713
• ISBN-13: 978-0976817710
• Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 8.2 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,793,821 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Kristen Bowers (1974- ) is the founder and President of educational publishing company Secondary Solutions (www.4secondarysolutions.com). After becoming frustrated with the quality and content of teaching materials available to her when she was a new teacher in 2005, Mrs. Bowers decided to create them herself. Joined by a middle school teacher with 21 years of secondary school experience, Secondary Solutions began shortly thereafter, and has since matured into a specialized team of intermediate and secondary teachers who have developed a set of Literature and Writing Guides unsurpassed by all others.

Mrs. Bowers has written over 15 books, including Literature Guides for To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby, Romeo and Juliet, Of Mice and Men, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Macbeth, Bud Not Buddy, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Brave New World, and more. She has also written two essay writing guides: Essay Apprentice and Essay Architect.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best I've seen!, August 2, 2005

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This review is from: Literature Guide: The Great Gatsby (Paperback)

This guide is really helpful. The Great Gatsby is such a tough book to teach and I have struggled to teach the novel without good materials. I have made up quizzes and tests for the novel that don't come anywhere close to these. Plus, the vocabulary reinforcement with worksheets throughout that give the students extra practice with test-taking skills is great! I cannot wait to start the year anew.

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5.0 out of 5 stars In a Word, Wonderful, March 27, 2008

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This review is from: Literature Guide: The Great Gatsby (Paperback)

Make no mistake, this is a tremendous teaching resource. As a busy teacher I have little time to prepare such material. There are numerous exercises to be found in this teaching packet, all of which are relevant to a higher understanding of the novel. Kristen Bowers should be commended for her work at Secondary Sources. I forsee great things for the company.