Watch this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTCjHZWmgG0) on Realism (1865-1910) and then answer questions in the next box. → What are two differences between Romanticism and Realism?
What is one specific quote about Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave that categorizes Douglass as a Realist author?
For Unit 3, we will be reading The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgeralid. The novel was published in 1925 during the Modernism era (1915-1945).
Watch this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VjMzRcEW90) on Modernity and answer the questions in the next box. → What are two ways in which Modernism is different from Romanticism and Realism?
What do you predict The Great Gatsby will be like based on this video on Modernism?
The Great Gatsby is known for capturing the Roaring Twenties of America.
Watch this Crash Course video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfOR1XCMf7A) on the 1920s and respond to the questions in the next box. → What were two qualities of the 1920s that were celebrated and seen as a part of the “Roaring Twenties”?
What were two underlying problems during the 1920s?
What similarities do you notice between the 1920s and 2020 (and/or the recent years leading up to 2020)?
One historical detail that is highly relevant to The Great Gatsby is the Prohibition Era that took place in the 1920s.
Watch this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4BDnlUQ3CA) and answer the question in the next box.→ What were two unintended consequences caused by the 18th Amendment?
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