The Common Core State Standards initiated major changes for language arts teachers, particularly the emphasis on informational text. Language arts teachers were asked to shift attention toward informational texts without taking away from the teaching of literature.Teachers, however, need to incorporate nonfiction in ways that enhance rather than take away from their teaching of literature.TheUsing Informational Textseries is designed to help.In this fourth volume (Volume 1:Using Informational Text to TeachTo Kill a Mockingbird;Volume 2: Using Informational Text to Teach A Raisin in the Sun; Volume 3:Connecting Across Disciplines: Collaborating with Informational Text), we offer challenging and engaging readings to enhance your teaching ofGatsby.Texts from a wide range of genres (a TED Talk, federal legislation, economic policy material, newspaper articles, and 1920s political writing) and on a variety of topics (income inequality, nativism and immigration, anti-Semitism, the relationship between wealth and cheating, the Black Sox scandal and newspaper coverage, and prohibition) help students answer essential questions about F. Scott Fitzgeralds novel.Each informational text is part of a student-friendly unit, with media links, reading strategies, vocabulary, discussion, and writing activities, and out-of-the-box class activities.

Audrey Fisch is Professor of English and Coordinator of Secondary English Education at New Jersey City University where she has taught for over twenty years.Susan Chenelle is Supervisor of Curriculum and Instruction at University Academy Charter High School in Jersey City, New Jersey, where she taught English and journalism for several years.

PrefaceAcknowledgementsHow to Use This BookUnit 1: Why Should We Care about Economic Inequality?Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman: Exploding wealth inequality in the United States David Vandivier: What Is The Great Gatsby Curve?Chapters 1, 6, and 8Unit 2: What Is Tom Buchanan Worried about -- Is Civilization Going to Pieces?Lothrop Stoddard: The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-SupremacyKenneth L. Roberts: Why Europe Leaves HomeChapters 1, 2, 4, 7, and 9Unit 3: Does Money Make People, Like Tom, Mean?Paul Piff, Does money make you mean? Chapters 2, 6, and 8Unit 4: Who Is to Blame in the Black Sox Scandal and in Gatsby? Eight White Sox Players Are Indicted on Charge of Fixing 1919 World Series; Cicotte Got $10,000 And Jackson $5,000Stuart Dezenhall, Newspaper Coverage of the 1919 Black Sox ScandalChapters 4 and 9Unit 5: Everyone Is Drinking, So Why Does Prohibition Matter in Gatsby?The National Prohibition ActMaking a Joke of Prohibition in New York CityChapter 7 or any timeWriting and Discussion RubricAbout the AuthorsTables and answers for all sections are available for download on the series website: www.usinginformationaltext.org.