Feeling Lucky Lesson 15 Great Gatsby Game Instructions

Materials:
Ball
Basket
Chapter 6 Questions with Key
Sticky Notes for Desk
Numbers for Jar
Jar
Instructions:
1) Students have chapter six questions out. They read the chapter six for homework the
night before but didn’t have to do the questions yet.
2) Desks are labeled with sticky notes. Out of a jar, I pull out a random number. (Example,
if I draw out number 5, the person sitting at the desk with that corresponding number
will answer question 1).
2a) If they answer question 1 correctly, they get to go to the line on the floor and shoot
a basket.
2b) If they make the basket, Ms. Ginter answer number 2
2c) If they miss the basket, Ms. Ginter will draw a new number. (Example let’s say
number 3, and the person at desk 3 would now answer number 2)
2d) If they answer the question 1 incorrectly, a new number is drawn for a person to
answer that question.
*Ms. Ginter only answers a question if the student answers a question correctly and makes the
basket.

Chapter Six Study Questions

Directions: Answer the following questions based on your readings in the novel.

1. What was Gatsby’s real name? Why and when had he changed it?

James Gatz. He changed to when he met Dan Cody to start a new identity for himself.

2. What is Daisy’s real response to the party, according to Nick?

She seemed to like it, was impressed by the people that was there.

3. What does Gatsby tell Nick he wants Daisy to do?

He wants her to tell Tom that she never loved him.

4. Plato held the reality was an imperfect reflection of an ideal, permanent realm. With this is
mind, what would you say Nick means when he says, “Jay Gatsby sprang from his Platonis
conception of himself?”

He went into his own little world where everything was in place. He things that Daisy will
automatically go back to the girl he had once known five years prior.

5. In what way was Dan Cody involved in Gatsby’s destiny?

Cody taught Gatsby how to act the part of a member of the upper class. He taught him about
obtaining dreams and how to be rich.

6. What is ironic about Dan Cody?

Cody was a self-made man, and was in fact a lot like Gatsby. Gatsby was suppose to inherit
money from Cody, but a woman got in the way and ruined it for him.

7. What parallel is suggested by the fact that Gatsby never gets the inheritance bequeathed to him
by Cody?

He was in the right to obtain the relationship but some of Cody’s family, specifically a woman,
got in the way of him obtaining it. It seems that women keep getting in the way of Gatsby’s
happiness.

8. How truthful was Gatsby when he relayed the story of his life to Nick? Why does Fitzgerald
tell the story of Jay Gatz now?

Cody taught Gatsby how to act the part of a member of the upper class. He taught him about
obtaining dreams and how to be rich. Nick explains that he says this much later, but Fitzgerald
might have put it here because it could get lost later.

9. Describe the meeting of Tom and Gatsby. What does this meeting reveal about them?

It is seemingly awkward, Tom has a flair of superiority and Gatsby is stuck introducing himself
to man he already knows. This shows that the two men are continually striving for the alpha-
male role due to Tom’s personality and Gatsby’s strive for Daisy.

10. What is deeply ironic in Tom’s statement, “...I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women
run around too much these days to suit me”?

It is ironic because of his affair with Myrtle.

11. What suspicions does Tom have about Gatsby? What does he vow to do?

He does not trust him because he finds him untruthful. He vows to find out what he does.
12. What did Daisy and Tom find Gatsby’s party loathsome?

Daisy does not seem to like West Egg. She likes the idea of old money and riches being evident
through generations. Since West Egg is “new money”, she cannot get over the fact that it used to
be a poor area and now it is acting just like they do with money.

13. How did Gatsby measure the success of his party?

He measured the success on how much Daisy liked it. Since she did not care for it, to Gatsby it
was a failure.

14. What Nick told Gatsby the “you can’t repeat the past”, Gatsby replied, “Why of course you
can!” Do you agree with Nick or Gatsby? Explain.

Answers will vary.