Print
Word
PDF
|
Lesson 1 (from "The Baby Party")
Objective
Students will acquire background information pertinent to reading "The Baby Party."
Fitzgerald's life story is a roller coaster of ups and downs. Most of his short stories were written to alleviate financial problems, and he felt that they were trivial and inferior compared to his novels. Critics of his time tended to agree, but in later years more serious attention has been paid to Fitzgerald's short stories. These stories range from lighthearted to serious, from realistic to fantastical--but as a body of work, they center on the same concerns he explored at more length in the novels he so valued. This lesson offers students context for their reading of "The Baby Party" and prepares them to understand the serious questions that lie beneath the story's lighthearted and comic surface.
Lesson
Research Activity: Give students ten minutes to research Fitzgerald's life and the typical subjects of his...
Aligned to the following Common Core Standards:
- ELA-Writing W.9-10.7, 9-10.9, 11-12.7, 11-12.9
|
This section contains 4,353 words (approx. 15 pages at 300 words per page) |
|
