Have you ever wondered how to use a novel in a literature lesson? Then, come and review this lesson plan.

1. A SAMPLE LESSON PLAN FOR TEACHING NOVEL
Teachers’ Name: Yakup Kaan Gönen
School: Social Science University of Ankara
Class: 12/A
Age of Students: 17-18
Proficiency Level of Students: Intermediate
Size of Class: 30 Students
Date of Presentation: 05.01.2021
Estimated Duration of the Lesson: 40+40 minutes
Pre-assessment Activities: Students have learnt the literary devices.
Performance Objectives: At the end of the lesson students are expected to be able to
understand how to review the novel.
Materials: A novel, board, exercise hand-outs, pictures represented the computer, colourful
pictures.
WARM-UP AND MOTIVATION
Teacher: Hello everyone! Good afternoon.
Students: ....................................................
Teacher: I am fine. Are you ready for lesson?
Students: Yes.
Teacher: As you remember from the previous lesson we have comparing and contrasting
structures. We are going to practise it today.
Students: Okay.
Teacher: You have read the novel “Great Gatsby”, and you learn and understand the topic
and events. Today we are going to talk about the author, novel, characters, themes, events.
Now, let’s start with the author of the novel. Who is he?
Students: ..........................................................
Teacher: You are right. While I am explaining, you will fill in the timeline chart according to
dates.

2. (Presentation) author
You can a video of the life of the author if available.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
WRITER OF GREAT GATSBY
HAVE A QUICK LOOK AT THE LIFE OF AUTHOR
1. F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) was born on 24 September 1896 to a salesman father
and an Irish-Catholic mother who was the heir to a successful Minnesota grocery
store.
2. The F. Scott of F. Scott Fitzgerald stands for Francis Scott; he was named for his
distant cousin, the writer of the poem that became the lyrics to American national
anthem. Until 1908 the family moved throughout upstate New York, but when his
father lost his job the Fitzgeralds moved to St. Paul, Minnesota.
3. Scott, as family and friends knew him, had his first story published when he was 13 - a
detective story printed in the school newspaper. After his expulsion for lack of
academic effort, he boarded at Newman School, a Catholic school in New Jersey.
4. After graduation in 1913, he attended Princeton University, where he wrote articles for
the college humour magazine, stories for the literary magazine, and scripts for the
musicals of the Triangle Club. However, again he neglected his studies; in 1917 he
was placed on academic probation, and he dropped out of Princeton to join the army.
Teacher : Well, we have learnt about the author of the novel. Now, I will introduce the novel
to you, and I will talk about the time that the novel was written.

3. 1925
GREAT GATSBY BY SCOTT FITZGERALD
(Presentation ) Book, Time- The Great Depression, Literary Terms
Teacher : Before starting the watching , reading and doing activities, we will do an activity
and survey about theme of that novel. As you now as Society and Class, Love, The
American Dream are the theme of great Gatsby.
First look at the picture and review it. And then, ask these given questions to your
friends and request him or her to reply.
What do we mean by society and class?_______________________
What do you think about American Dream?___________________
What comes to your mind when I say Love in American Dream?____________

4. THE GENERAL AIM OF THE LESSON
The aim of this lesson is to learn a novel’s features and to contribute to personal enrichments.
Teacher: You will fill in the chart according to your opinions, and we will do the same
activity after reading the novel. So, we will see whether our opinions will change or not.
Activity 1: GREAT GATSBY Pre-Reading
PreReading Activity Questions
 What were the effects of Prohibition during the 1920s?
________________________
 Would it work today? WHY or WHY NOT?
________________________
 What is “the American Dream”?
_________________________
 How do you think the concept of “the American Dream” has changed over time?
__________________________
 What does it mean to be successful in America?
___________________________
 Is there a dark side to achieving success in America?
___________________________
 What role does social status (or class) play in our culture?
____________________________
 Is “the American Dream” accessible to everyone, regardless of social status (or class)?
____________________________
 BEFORE READING, PLEASE REPLY THESE QUESTIONS ACCORDING TO YOUR
OPINION.
 Is obsession ever a good thing? YES OR NO
 How important are money and prestige in achieving true happiness?
 When can dreams become destructive?
 What effect do you think materialism has on relationships?
 How do you think the institution of marriage is different today than it was during the
1920s?
 Is marriage dead? What are some issues facing married couples today?
 How true is it that we spend too much of our lives trying to convince others that we are
something we’re not?
Teacher: Let’s learn the characters!

5. Teacher: Now, we are going to watch and read the summary of the novel.

6. THE NOVEL
GREAT GASBY
In my youngerand more vulnerable years my father gave
me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind
ever since.
‘Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,’ he told me,
‘just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had
the advantages that you’ve had.’
He didn’t say any more but we’ve always been unusually
communicative in a reserved way, and I understood that he
meant a great deal more than that.In consequence I’m inclined
to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up
many curious natures to me and also made me the victim
of not a few veteran bores. The abnormal mind is quick to
detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a
normal person,and so it came about that in college I was
unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy
to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men. Most of the confidences
were unsought—frequently Ihave feigned sleep,
preoccupation,or a hostile levity when I realized by some
unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering
on the horizon—for the intimate revelations of young
men or at least the terms in which they express them are
usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.
Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope.I am still
a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my fa
ther snobbishly suggested,and I snobbishly repeat a sense
of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at
birth.
And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to
the admission that it has a limit. Conduct may be founded
on the hard rock or the wet marshes but after a certain point
I don’t care what it’s founded on. When I came back from
the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in
uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted
no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses
into the human heart. Only Gatsby, the man who gives his
name to this book, was exempt from my reaction—Gatsby
who represented everything for which I have an unaffected
scorn. If personality is an unbroken series of successful
gestures,then there was something gorgeous about him,
some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he
were related to one of those intricate machines that register
earthquakes ten thousand miles away. This responsiveness
had nothing to do with that flabby impressionability which
is dignified underthe name of the ‘creative temperament’—
it was an extraordinary gift for hope,a romantic readiness
such as I have neverfound in any other person and which
it is not likely I shall ever find again. No—Gatsby turned
out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what
foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily
closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and shortwinded
elations of men.
My family have been prominent, well-to-do people in

7. this middle-western city for three generations.The CarFree
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raways are something of a clan and we have a tradition that
we’re descended from the Dukes of Buccleuch, but the actual
founder of my line was my grandfather’s brother who
came here in fifty-one, sent a substitute to the Civil War and
started the wholesale hardware business that my father carries
on today.
I never saw this great-uncle but I’m supposed to look
like him—with special reference to the rather hard-boiled
painting that hangs in Father’s office. I graduated from New
Haven in 1915, just a quarter of a century after my father,
and a little later I participated in that delayed Teutonic migration
known as the Great War. I enjoyed the counter-raid
so thoroughly that I came back restless.Instead of being the
warm center of the world the middle-west now seemed like
the ragged edge of the universe—so I decided to go east and
learn the bond business.Everybody I knew was in the bond
business so I supposed it could support one more single
man. All my aunts and uncles talked it over as if they were
choosing a prep-schoolfor me and finally said, ‘Why—yees’
with very grave, hesitant faces. Father agreed to finance
me for a year and after various delays I came east,permanently,
I thought,in the spring of twenty-two.
The practical thing was to find rooms in the city but it was
a warm season and I had just left a country of wide lawns
and friendly trees, so when a young man at the office suggested
that we take a house togetherin a commuting town
it sounded like a great idea. He found the house,a weather
beaten cardboard bungalow at eighty a month, but at the
last minute the firm ordered him to Washington and I went
out to the country alone. I had a dog, at least I had him for a
few days until he ran away, and an old Dodge and a Finnish
woman who made my bed and cooked breakfast and muttered
Finnish wisdom to herself over the electric stove.
It was lonely for a day or so until one morning some man,
more recently arrived than I, stopped me on the road.
‘How do you get to West Egg village?’ he asked helplessly.
I told him. And as I walked on I was lonely no longer. I
was a guide, a pathfinder, an original settler. He had casually
conferred on me the freedom of the neighborhood.
And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves
growing on the trees—just as things grow in fast movies—I
had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over
again with the summer.
There was so much to read for one thing and so much
fine health to be pulled down out of the young breath-giving
air. I bought a dozen volumes on banking and credit and
investment securities and they stood on my shelf in red and
gold like new money from the mint, promising to unfold
the shining secrets that only Midas and Morgan and Maecenas
knew. And I had the high intention of reading many
other books besides.I was rather literary in college—one
year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials
for the ‘Yale News’—and now I was going to bring back all
such things into my life and become again that most limited
of all specialists, the ‘well-rounded man.’ This isn’t just an
epigram—life is much more successfully looked at from a
single window, after all.
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8. It was a matter of chance that I should have rented a
house in one of the strangest communities in North America.
It was on that slenderriotous island which extends itself
due east of New York and where there are, among other
natural curiosities, two unusualformations of land. Twenty
miles from the city a pair of enormous eggs,identical in
contourand separated only by a courtesy bay, jut out into
the most domesticated body of salt water in the Western
Hemisphere, the great wet barnyard of Long Island Sound.
They are not perfect ovals—like the egg in the Columbus
story they are both crushed flat at the contact end—but
their physical resemblance must be a source of perpetual
confusion to the gulls that fly overhead. To the wingless a
more arresting phenomenon is their dissimilarity in every
particular except shape and size.
I lived at West Egg, the—well, the less fashionable of the
two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre
and not a little sinister contrast between them. My
house was at the very tip of the egg, only fifty yards from the
Sound, and squeezed between two huge places that rented
for twelve or fifteen thousand a season.The one on my right
was a colossal affair by any standard—it was a factual imitation
of some Hôtel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on
one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a
marble swimming pool and more than forty acres of lawn
and garden. It was Gatsby’s mansion. Or rather, as I didn’t
know Mr. Gatsby it was a mansion inhabited by a gentleman
of that name. My own house was an eye-sore, but it
was a small eye-sore,and it had been overlooked, so I had
ather snobbishly suggested,and I snobbishly repeat a sense
of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at
birth.
And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to
the admission that it has a limit. Conduct may be founded
on the hard rock or the wet marshes but after a certain point
I don’t care what it’s founded on. When I came back from
the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in
uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted
no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses
into the human heart. Only Gatsby, the man who gives his
name to this book, was exempt from my reaction—Gatsby
who represented everything for which I have an unaffected
scorn. If personality is an unbroken series of successful
gestures,then there was something gorgeous about him,
some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he
were related to one of those intricate machines that register

9. earthquakes ten thousand miles away. This responsiveness
had nothing to do with that flabby impressionability which
is dignified underthe name of the ‘creative temperament’—
it was an extraordinary gift for hope,a romantic readiness
such as I have neverfound in any other person and which
it is not likely I shall ever find again. No—Gatsby turned
out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what
foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily
closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and shortwinded
elations of men.
My family have been prominent, well-to-do people in
this middle-western city for three generations.The CarFree
eBooks at Planet eBook.com
raways are something of a clan and we have a tradition that
we’re descended from the Dukes of Buccleuch, but the actual
founder of my line was my grandfather’s brother who
came here in fifty-one, sent a substitute to the Civil War and
started the wholesale hardware business that my father carries
on today.
I never saw this great-uncle but I’m supposed to look
like him—with special reference to the rather hard-boiled
painting that hangs in Father’s office. I graduated from New
Haven in 1915, just a quarter of a century after my father,
and a little later I participated in that delayed Teutonic migration
known as the Great War. I enjoyed the counter-raid
so thoroughly that I came back restless.Instead of being the
warm center of the world the middle-west now seemed like
the ragged edge of the universe—so I decided to go east and
learn the bond business.Everybody I knew was in the bond
business so I supposed it could support one more single
man. All my aunts and uncles talked it over as if they were
choosing a prep-schoolfor me and finally said, ‘Why—yees’
with very grave, hesitant faces. Father agreed to finance
me for a year and after various delays I came east,permanently,

10. I thought,in the spring of twenty-two.
The practical thing was to find rooms in the city but it was
a warm season and I had just left a country of wide lawns
and friendly trees, so when a young man at the office suggested
that we take a house togetherin a commuting town
it sounded like a great idea. He found the house,a weather
beaten cardboard bungalow at eighty a month, but at the
last minute the firm ordered him to Washington and I went
Teacher: So, let’s talk about the themes in the novel.
 There is a video that summarize the Great Gatsby PART 1
https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/a70ef29d-b06a-4f15-8a49-
2d398b9e0444/the-great-gatsby-part-1-crash-course-english-literature-104/
Please take note while you are watching the video and read them loudly into the
classroom.
Activity 1: Discussion Questions. Discuss into the classroom with your teacher.
1. What is important about the title of "The Great Gatsby?"
2. Which adaptations of the novel have you seen? What did you think of them?
3. What are the conflicts in "The Great Gatsby"? What types of conflicts—physical,
moral, intellectual, or emotional—figure in this novel? Are they resolved?

11. 4. Why is Gatsby unable to put the past behind him? Why does he demand that Daisy
renounce her former love for her husband?
5. What choice would you have made in Daisy's situation?
6. What role does Daisy play in Gatsby's downfall?
Activity 2: Select the correct answers.
1. Why does Tom hit Myrtle at his apartment in New York City?
o Because she refuses to see him anymore
o Because she asks him to divorce his wife
o Because she taunts him about Daisy
o Because she flirts with Nick
2. Where is Gatsby’s mansion located?
o East Egg
o Park Avenue
o West Egg
o Brooklyn
3. Where does Gatsby’s reunion with Daisy take place?
o By the pool
o At Nick’s house
o At the golf tournament
o At the yacht race
4. In what year is The Great Gatsby set?
o 1925
o 1924
o 1923
o 1922
5. Where were Nick and Tom educated?
o Yale
o Harvard
o Princeton
o Duke
6. What is Jordan Baker’s occupation?
o Softball pitcher
o Secretary

12. o Philanthropist
o Golfer
Activity 3: Literary devices
A) Write the literary devices that used in great gastby,
And give examples from the novel.
 EXAMPLE: Alli tera tion.____ soft, shirts, stripes scrolls _______
 A____sion.___________________________________
 Ep____xis.__________________________________
 ____gery.___________________________________
 Metaphor and si____._________________________
 ______moron._________________________________
 ____sonification.______________________________
B) Write the names of the literary devices next to the examples. You can use terms
more than one.
1. “The main action of the novel comprises Jay Gatsby yearning for Daisy’s
affection. He took the blame for the accident and faced sequences as George
Wilson kills him. The rising action comprises the reunion of Daisy and Gatsby,
while the falling action is the death of Gatsby or maybe his final funeral rites.
Action (EXAMPLE)
2. The Great Gatsby shows some strands of _____ in the character of Gatsby who
is a symbol of something to be re-created through dreams. However, as a
representative figure of every common American, Gatsby seems to have made
it an allegory, for his dream of winning his love after having won a Gothic
mansion and name in the parties proves a miserable failure.__________
3. Tom Buchanan is the ________ of the novel, The Great Gatsby. He is not only
an imposing figure but also a dominating man who represents obstacles that

13. stand between a man’s desire and his attempts to reach his goal. He does not
let Daisy and Gatsby meet to fulfill their desire of marriage after loving each
other.______________
4. Some of the _________ used in The Great Gatsby are such as a reference to
Midas, a Greek legend, another to Morgan, an American financier, to
Maecenas, an art patron of Rome, to Oxford, a university in England and to
Rockefeller, a self-styled billionaire of the 19th century.______________
Devicesthat will be using for this activity
 ALLUSION
 ALLEGORY
 ANTAGONIST
 ACTION
TIPS FOR LITERARY DEVICES
 Allegory is a narration or description in which events, actions, characters,
settings or objects represent specific abstractions or ideas
 In literature, an antagonist is a character, or a group of characters, which
stands in opposition to the Protagonist. A protagonist is the central character
or leading figure in poetry, narrative, novel or any other story.
 Allusion is a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of
historical, cultural, literary or political significance
Activity 4: Speaking Activity
In this activity, understanding of the characters will be checked and students will be able to
identify them.
 How does Nick describe Tom Buchanan?
 What is the name of the book Tom is reading? What does this show us about him?
 Who is Jordan Baker? What does Nick find appealing about her?
 How does Daisy react to the phone calls from Tom's woman in New York?

14. Activity 5: Vocabulary Point
Read the great Gatsby and choose the correct word for each blank.
In my younger and (1) _________ vulnerable years my father gave me (2)________ advice
that I've been turning mover in my mind ever since. "Whenever you feel like criticizing any
one," he told me, "just remember (3)__________ all the people in this world haven't had the
advantages that you've had." He didn't say any more but we've always been unusually
communicative in a reserved way, and I understood that he meant a great (4) _________more
than that. In consequence I'm inclined (5) ___________all judgments, a habit that has opened
up many curious natures to me and (6)__________ made me the victim of not a few veteran
bores. The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality (7)________ it
appears in a normal person, and so it came (8)_________ that in college I was un justly
accused (9)________ a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown
men. Most of the confidences were unsought-frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation,
or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that on intimate revelation was
quivering (10)__________ the horizon - for the intimate revelations of young mean or at least
the terms in which they express them are usually plagiaristic and marred (11)_________
obvious suppressions. Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope.
1. a. more b. most c. father d. wholly
2. a. an b. some c. a piece d. any
3. a. that b. when c. why d. what
4. a. much b. lot c. deal d. many
5. a. for reserving b. in reserving c. by reserving d. to reserve
6. a. still b. also c. further d. what's more
7. a. when b. how c. where d. why
8. a. around b. by c. to d. about
9. a. to be b. for being c. of being d. in being

15. 10. a. on b. in c. for d. above
11. a. with b. of c. from d. by
Activity 6: Watching the movie.
 Please set a day up for watching the movie version of Great Gatsby.
 You may watch this movie from several websites. Such as:
 Great Gatsby | Netflix
 I recommend you to watch the movie with Turkish subtitles in English format.