The Great Gatsby: An Instructional Guide for Literature is the perfect tool to familiarize students with this well-known novel and encourage them to connect the story with actual events and issues from the 1920s. By completing rigorous and appealing cross-curricular lessons and activities, students will learn to analyze story elements in multiple ways, practice close reading and text-based vocabulary, determine meaning through text-dependent questions, and more. Each activity and lesson work in conjunction with the text to teach students how to analyze and comprehend rich, complex literature.