Critical Lens Questions for Analysis by Nicole Casey https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns Respond to all questions below, independently, after reading the excerpt from The Great Gatsby. en-us 2021-01-21 21:33:36 UTC 2026-02-23 02:23:21 UTC hello@padlet.com Ambiguity https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208774955 I wonder to what extent students feel comfortable assuming that their educator's opinion differs from Tom's in this passage. People tend to promote ideas they agree with, so the act of presenting this text to students, even with an anti-racist intent, could lead students to anxiety about their teacher's 'real' attitudes if the text is not presented carefully. This is furhter complicated by the fact that students implicitly understand that even racist educators face pressure to perform anti-racism. I also wonder to what extent this text could be derailing for a student who just wanted to get through a school day without a fictional character repeating hate they themselves may have lived through. None of this tells me the text shouldn't be taught, but rather teachers have a duty to proactively eliminate ambiguity around their personal investment in student greatness and to remain sensitive to students' emotional needs and triggers. Ideally, students should be empowered to manage their relationship to a text- including seeking an alternative without penalty.]]> 2021-02-16 21:08:20 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208774955 straight white male of privilege https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208780760 2021-02-16 21:10:34 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208780760 F. Scott Fitzgerald is the author and grew up as a a white man in 1920's America. https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208781217
However, Nick Carraway is the protagonist of the novel and is informing his audience of these events. ]]> 2021-02-16 21:10:44 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208781217 Nick Carraway donald_dilliplane https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208782334 Privileged white male, his father pays his rent, he acts as though he's living modestly while he has a live-in house-servant. Claims (inaccurately) to be objective and reserve judgment.]]> 2021-02-16 21:11:11 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208782334 Nick Carroway, White, wealthy, privileged. sara_tani https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208783298 2021-02-16 21:11:32 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208783298 A white, privileged man from MN. Educated - Yale graduate. https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208783441 2021-02-16 21:11:35 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208783441 Nick Carroway. White, male, midwestern, 'respectable.' https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208783768 2021-02-16 21:11:42 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208783768 Nick ssilver19 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208784012 Affluent white male]]> 2021-02-16 21:11:48 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208784012 Nick Carraway b_brackrobertson https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208784426 White privilged man, college graduate, recieving money from parents, and he works on Wallstreet as a "bonds man".]]> 2021-02-16 21:11:59 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208784426 Nick (Fitzgerald) https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208784438 2021-02-16 21:11:59 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208784438 Nick - white, privileged, male, attended Yale, cousin to Daisy, able to live in a wealthy area drichme https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208784442 2021-02-16 21:11:59 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208784442 Nick https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208784459 2021-02-16 21:11:59 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208784459 Nick Carraway https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208784468 White, educated, wealthy, privileged upbringing, positions himself as "less privileged" than wealthy main characters.]]> 2021-02-16 21:12:00 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208784468 Aristocrats/Elite mneal51 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208784611 2021-02-16 21:12:03 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208784611 samantha_butler1 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208784660 There is a sense of DETACHMENT having studied this in HS myself and wondering the value-add in students studying 20+ years later when I know that it is not as relevant to students now (and was not relevant to me as a student).]]> 2021-02-16 21:12:04 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208784660 White, middle to upper class Americans https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208784916 2021-02-16 21:12:11 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208784916 White, upper middle class. https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208785345 2021-02-16 21:12:21 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208785345 For the Character or Author? donald_dilliplane https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208785521 For Fitzgerald: Those in the privileged echelon of society, economically and racially.

For Carraway: Possibly beyond the upper echelon, given his hero-worship of Gatsby who came from working class means but achieved, albeit temporarily and illegally, vast wealth. His disdain for Tom and Daisey as well as his disagreement with Gatsby about the past also indicate this. His lack of self-awareness, however, does not.]]> 2021-02-16 21:12:25 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208785521 The author is characterizing the central characters in this excerpt. In particular, he is showing the audience that Tom is a wealthy, white, man with lots of power who rejects the idea that other people (POC in particular) should have a method to "climb the social ladder." Tom wants to maintain his grip on power. It also demonstrates that Tom is unfaithful to his wife Daisy. https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208785667 2021-02-16 21:12:28 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208785667 Nick https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208785904 White, male, veteran, ]]> 2021-02-16 21:12:35 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208785904 Upper class white https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208786317 2021-02-16 21:12:43 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208786317 Nick Carroway--affluent, white male who attended Yale and has connections to be hired as a bond salesmen in NYC jennifer_killmer https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208786427 2021-02-16 21:12:45 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208786427 Social Commentary regarding the white upper class mneal51 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208786851 2021-02-16 21:12:55 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208786851 White, middle and upper class citizens of USA https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208786895 2021-02-16 21:12:56 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208786895 Anyone who is not rich or white. https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208786933 2021-02-16 21:12:57 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208786933 Nick- straight, white, male https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208787092 2021-02-16 21:13:00 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208787092 Nick Carraway https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208787262 2021-02-16 21:13:03 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208787262 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208787303 N8ck]]> 2021-02-16 21:13:04 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208787303 The author's intent is to reveal Tom's ideologies to the audience in means of expressing the values and ideas of powerful white men during this time period. https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208787702 2021-02-16 21:13:14 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208787702 Nick https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208787733 2021-02-16 21:13:15 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208787733 Nick https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208787862 2021-02-16 21:13:18 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208787862 to show what a scumbag Tom is logannradigan https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208787911 Tom is so focused on white power and being the best, and these ideas are surrounded by other falsities (being a rose, that the Nordics created everything) and it shows how self-absorbed the Buchannans are]]> 2021-02-16 21:13:19 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208787911 The roaring 20s for the white elite is being told mneal51 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208787987 Everyone else is not being told]]> 2021-02-16 21:13:21 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208787987 nick https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208788083 2021-02-16 21:13:23 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208788083 To show how educated Tom and white people are. https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208788114 2021-02-16 21:13:24 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208788114 Questions raised lauren_palek https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208788164 Is Tom's misquote of the title and author name something Fitzgerald uses to further show his privilege (i.e. he can assert this thing as 'science' and 'truth' without even knowing the full title because he is not likely to be questioned about it)?]]> 2021-02-16 21:13:25 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208788164 white, middle to upper class Americans https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208788228 2021-02-16 21:13:26 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208788228 White people across America. Stand together/ Science says https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208788355 2021-02-16 21:13:29 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208788355 nick https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208788520 2021-02-16 21:13:33 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208788520 Upper class white Americans https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208788524 2021-02-16 21:13:33 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208788524 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208788698 Nick]]> 2021-02-16 21:13:37 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208788698 Nick https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208788704 2021-02-16 21:13:37 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208788704 Fitzgerald wrote for people like himself: white, well-off, cosmopolitan, male. While he often satirized the society circles he traveled in, he never left those circles. https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208788773 2021-02-16 21:13:39 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208788773 Nick benjamin_isaac https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208788875 2021-02-16 21:13:40 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208788875 Nick is the storyteller. benjamin_isaac https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208789011 2021-02-16 21:13:43 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208789011 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208789065 The wealthy, more specifically newly rich of the 1920s. Specifically those worried about losing their new wealth to what they viewed as inferior populations. ]]> 2021-02-16 21:13:45 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208789065 There is very clearly no people of color mentioned in this text. https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208789093 2021-02-16 21:13:46 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208789093 White Upper-class Americans https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208789125 2021-02-16 21:13:46 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208789125 white upper class mneal51 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208789259 2021-02-16 21:13:50 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208789259 Roaring 20s jennifer_killmer https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208789278 2021-02-16 21:13:51 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208789278 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208789375 I think aspects of my identity play a part in how I interpret this text. For one I don't see the significance of using this text in today's times. I also think about students in my community and how the struggle connecting to this text

]]> 2021-02-16 21:13:52 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208789375 To further develop the idea of excessivenes and priviledge in the novel https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208789754 2021-02-16 21:14:01 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208789754 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208789890 Nick]]> 2021-02-16 21:14:04 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208789890 White elite (academics? those who enjoy literature?) https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208789953 2021-02-16 21:14:05 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208789953 Characterization joseph_linscott https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208790205 2021-02-16 21:14:11 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208790205 samantha_butler1 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208790361 Whose version of the American dream is this story telling? Why aren't other voices present? What type of marriage is this? Why is that understanding of marriage an important question for students to delve into?]]> 2021-02-16 21:14:13 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208790361 Audieince b_brackrobertson https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208790619 Fitzgerald was trying to survive, but he also wanted to write "The Great American novel." He was writing for other rich white people. ]]> 2021-02-16 21:14:18 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208790619 Nick- 29 yr old, Educated at Yale, former soldier, midwestern, upper middle class. Unreliable narrator anna_branton https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208790622 2021-02-16 21:14:18 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208790622 the great depression, prohibition, WW1 and WW2 mneal51 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208790667 2021-02-16 21:14:19 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208790667 Nick Carraway; white male nblake5 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208790867 2021-02-16 21:14:24 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208790867 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208790907 People like Nick. Predominantly white, perhaps of middle class standing,  rather than wealthy]]> 2021-02-16 21:14:25 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208790907 The author (Fitz.) telling from nicks perspective... https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208791066 2021-02-16 21:14:29 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208791066 Social Commentary on race/wealth, as well as characterization. https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208791093 2021-02-16 21:14:29 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208791093 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208791105 Cautionary tale, identifying power structures and power roles in American Society ]]> 2021-02-16 21:14:29 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208791105 Nick brenna_pertner https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208791131 2021-02-16 21:14:30 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208791131 To develop the characters by depicting the topics of conversation they engage in https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208791285 2021-02-16 21:14:33 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208791285 People of color. https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208791648 2021-02-16 21:14:40 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208791648 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208791677 Satire or, social self-help disguised as satire. ]]> 2021-02-16 21:14:41 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208791677 The story being told is that of wealthy white men exercising their power and refusing to allow others to gain some. https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208791709
The story not being told is that of women, poor people and BIPOC striving to live a better life with more agency. ]]> 2021-02-16 21:14:42 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208791709 affluent white powerful https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208792031 2021-02-16 21:14:49 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208792031 Why do we continue to read and teach this in high school? How is it culturally responsive. I can make relevant connections, but can all of our kids? How is it relevant to them. mneal51 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208792178 2021-02-16 21:14:53 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208792178 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208792201 To develop a deep understanding of the values and viewpoints of the main characters]]> 2021-02-16 21:14:53 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208792201 Nordic supremacy logannradigan https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208792365 "created civilization" "science and art" 

Blatantly false, due to earlier civilizations developing around the world, which are ignored. Thinking about the Arabic number system, Chinese inventions, Indigenous American cultivation methods... Most of these are not European, let alone Nordic]]> 2021-02-16 21:14:56 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208792365 Contributions of white people. Contributions of non-white people https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208792660 2021-02-16 21:15:03 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208792660 Nick-single, young, white male in the roaring 20's. https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208792679 2021-02-16 21:15:03 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208792679 How might a prominent person of color during this time participate in this conversation? https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208792731 2021-02-16 21:15:04 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208792731 to expose the ugliness of the carelessness and casual evil of privilege and entitlement https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208793130 2021-02-16 21:15:13 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208793130 White upper class brenna_pertner https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208793132 2021-02-16 21:15:13 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208793132 White, middle class folks https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208793211 Fitzgerald focuses on the idea of the "American Dream" but this dream is through the lens of white folks with privilege and power.]]> 2021-02-16 21:15:15 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208793211 Story Teller https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208793255 Nick]]> 2021-02-16 21:15:16 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208793255 To shed light on how the class system in the United States nblake5 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208793394 2021-02-16 21:15:19 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208793394 Middle to upper class, educated white, English speaking people in USA and Europe. anna_branton https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208793569 2021-02-16 21:15:24 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208793569 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208793595 Those who are not welcome into the social elite have their perspective shared for them, or simply discounted all together.  


]]> 2021-02-16 21:15:24 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208793595 20s lauren_palek https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208793631 "roaring" twenties often taught as a time of opulence and wealth--but for who?]]> 2021-02-16 21:15:25 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208793631 The https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208793643 2021-02-16 21:15:25 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208793643 Nick, a white man from MN megan_ross https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208793721 2021-02-16 21:15:27 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208793721 To expose the ugly paranoia and delusional victimhood that often accompanies extreme wealth and privilege. https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208793860 2021-02-16 21:15:30 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208793860 Nick, a man that is slightly obsessed with Gatsby from the midwest and new to money heidi_patton https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208793967 2021-02-16 21:15:33 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208793967 Purpose b_brackrobertson https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208794035 Fitzgerald was challenging the notion of dreams and the idea getting everything someone wanted. He wanted to prove that only those with money live in this world. ]]> 2021-02-16 21:15:35 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208794035 mary_clark8 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208794106 Nick]]> 2021-02-16 21:15:37 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208794106 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208794188 The roaring 1920s. Leading up to the Crash of 29 and the Great Depression.]]> 2021-02-16 21:15:39 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208794188 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208794237 English speakers]]> 2021-02-16 21:15:40 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208794237 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208794298 The viewpoint of a white gaze of the upper class on people of color. No other viewpoints are mentioned]]> 2021-02-16 21:15:41 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208794298 If this book were relevant to a teen, we should call their parents https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208794316 Gatsby mostly concerns problems grown ups have- sordid affairs, life-long regrets, the hollowness that comes with throwing your life at a wish and finally getting it. It's not that students aren't intellectually advanced enough to 'get it,' but it concerns an entirely alien phase of emotional development. ]]> 2021-02-16 21:15:41 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208794316 Wealthy White upper class society. sara_tani https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208794341 2021-02-16 21:15:42 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208794341 Fitzgerald & Carraway donald_dilliplane https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208794527 Fitzgerald: His goal is to satirize the carelessness and supposed importance of the wealthy, especially in the midst of the Roaring 20s. Tom & Daisey especially show this, but so does Gatsby, in a different way, as well as Carraway in a different way as well. It also wishes to undermine the concept of the American Dream, which has turned into an over obsession with recreating some non-existent yet perfect past.

Carraway: He wishes to comment on Gatsby's failure in obsessing over the past as well as Tom & Daisey's carelessness and abuse of their wealth.]]> 2021-02-16 21:15:46 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208794527 White people megan_ross https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208794710 2021-02-16 21:15:51 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208794710 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208794715 This tells the story of the rich, white, and educated. It leaves out the truths of anyone else. ]]> 2021-02-16 21:15:51 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208794715 A white man hernandez_english https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208794797 2021-02-16 21:15:53 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208794797 Not included lauren_palek https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208794943 Anyone but Tom--people of color excluded all together, white women actively excluded by Tom's interruptions, butler excluded, Nick is the only one being actively addressed and he does not weigh in on the conversation (nor does Tom even want him to, really). ]]> 2021-02-16 21:15:57 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208794943 I am heavily biased against the bourgeoisie so my teaching of the text would be negative and pessimistic, if I EVERY teach it, which I NEVER plan to mneal51 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208794988 2021-02-16 21:15:58 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208794988 Nick: white, affluent, male https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208795021 2021-02-16 21:15:59 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208795021 White English speaking people, possibly middle class and up hernandez_english https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208795090 2021-02-16 21:16:01 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208795090 Middle class ssilver19 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208795091 White, English speaking, able to understand the ideas presented.]]> 2021-02-16 21:16:01 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208795091 Rick white man https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208795360 2021-02-16 21:16:07 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208795360 He wants us to see how boorish Tom is, not necessarily because he is racist, but because he is intense and opinionated. https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208795458 2021-02-16 21:16:10 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208795458 samantha_butler1 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208795560 Renaissances were happening everywhere in the U.S.--this book addresses one. Prohibition, The Jazz Age, the identity and depiction of women and that evolution, etc ]]> 2021-02-16 21:16:12 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208795560 the story of those in power is being told--the stories of those who aren't (subjects of the book, the butler, later the working class mechanic and his wife) are only told through the lens of the power holders https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208795703 2021-02-16 21:16:16 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208795703 sara_tani https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208795723 Fitzgerald was attempting to challenge the though process of white society's anxiety over losing power to minority races and lower socio-economic classes. ]]> 2021-02-16 21:16:16 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208795723 People of Color, Daisy (women in general) poor people. https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208795821 2021-02-16 21:16:18 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208795821 To shed light on the thinking of much of the white upper class at this time. brenna_pertner https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208796052 2021-02-16 21:16:23 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208796052 "Roaring 20s" https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208796170 This story focuses on the power and privilege of wealthy/ newly wealthy people in New York. While the story features the Valley of Ashes and uses Myrtle and Tom to highlight what poverty might look like, the stories of people of color, particularly revolutionary black artists, are not being told. This is also a story of a major city in the roaring 20s and does not tell the "American" story of those in more rural parts of the country.]]> 2021-02-16 21:16:26 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208796170 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208796182 The life of wealthy people in the 20s. The story of aggressive segregation during the same time of economic boom. ]]> 2021-02-16 21:16:26 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208796182 mary_clark8 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208796267 White people]]> 2021-02-16 21:16:28 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208796267 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208796324 Just finished the Great War. Huge split in class society getting bigger. The stage is being set for a huge economic downfall of the country, caused by the dramatic flaw of greed. ]]> 2021-02-16 21:16:29 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208796324 Americans https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208796429 2021-02-16 21:16:31 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208796429 Whitewashing the Roaring 20s shelby_harold https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208796482 The story of jazz, fashion, and opulence of the Roaring 20s is told from a wealthy white perspective. This ignores that many of these trends were founded by the Black community. They gained mainstream popularity after they were white-washed. ]]> 2021-02-16 21:16:33 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208796482 This text was written soon after WWI, but before the Great Depression. Many people were suffering from shell shock and questioning the expectations and tradtions that earlier generations were able to rely on. Many POC fought in WWI but came back to a country which did not care for them. https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208796547 2021-02-16 21:16:34 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208796547 Fitzgerald, through Nick Carraway as narrator https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208796694 White, educated, connected, associated with money, observational figure]]> 2021-02-16 21:16:37 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208796694 To show the flaws in the American Dream. https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208796727 2021-02-16 21:16:38 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208796727 Nick https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208796860 2021-02-16 21:16:40 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208796860 acknowledging race, gender, educational background, language, occupation https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208796993 2021-02-16 21:16:43 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208796993 white muddle class or upper class https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208797124 2021-02-16 21:16:45 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208797124 Fitzgerald wanted The Great Gatsby to be the greatest American novel of all time. All of the world was his audience (and a unrequited love that Daisy was based on). https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208797175 2021-02-16 21:16:47 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208797175 White Americans heidi_patton https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208797198 2021-02-16 21:16:47 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208797198 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208797210 White men's opinions are told, but people of color are not told and women's opinion is not taken seriously. ]]> 2021-02-16 21:16:48 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208797210 joseph_smorol https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208797253 Nick is the narrator of the story. However, we could still think of the storyteller as F. Scott, who likewise was young, white, and hung out in wealthy/aristocratic circles.]]> 2021-02-16 21:16:49 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208797253 The excess and lavishness of the Roaring 20s. What is excluded is almost everything else. Even Nick, who is poor, is included in the wealthy lifestyles. hernandez_english https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208797257 2021-02-16 21:16:49 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208797257 Fitzgerald was pointing out the classism and the privilege in "new money" and "old money" for white people in Modernist USA. Tom references the book "The Rise of the Colored Empires" for Fitzgerald to show that Tom is an elitist oaf, but not to be anti-racist. There are only 3-4 other instances in the book where race is mentioned, but Fitzgerald was not an anti-racist. His message was narrower and focused on privilege and the American Dream for white people- largely ignoring how people of color experience the "American Dream". anna_branton https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208797918 2021-02-16 21:17:04 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208797918 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208797992 Included: Rich, white - I think this was the true mindset in the 20s, and so that made it easier/natural for Fitzgerald to write. 
Not included: POC, lower class - because they were (and still are) portrayed as "less than." It could also be a matter of Fitzgerald himself was not educated in the cultures and truths of POC]]> 2021-02-16 21:17:06 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208797992 Great migration & renaissances. https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208798090 2021-02-16 21:17:08 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208798090 The struggles of the rich. https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208798136 2021-02-16 21:17:09 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208798136 not sure https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208798165 2021-02-16 21:17:10 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208798165 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208798537 the perspectives of the oppressed throughout the book ARE included, but obliquely, and they are not given voice or agency--but the injustice can (and should) be inferred]]> 2021-02-16 21:17:18 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208798537 The historical story of wealthy whites at this time. brenna_pertner https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208798676 2021-02-16 21:17:21 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208798676 The uneducated and people of color. https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208798716 2021-02-16 21:17:22 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208798716 THe passage tells that the world will not just be run by whites, but it tells it in a threatening way. https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208798742 2021-02-16 21:17:23 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208798742 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208798940 White people, and mostly men, because even though Daisy is in the conversation she is shut down in a way.]]> 2021-02-16 21:17:28 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208798940 The people who work in this horrible town drichme https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208798980 2021-02-16 21:17:29 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208798980 Nick is the storyteller. jalmond2 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208799003 2021-02-16 21:17:29 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208799003 Ah! love. https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208799204 2021-02-16 21:17:34 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208799204 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208799313 The story addresses both the white elite and the middle / lower class (nick). Does not talk about the perspective of any other type of American (POC, immigrant) ]]> 2021-02-16 21:17:38 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208799313 Educated, white, most likely male https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208799497 2021-02-16 21:17:42 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208799497 The story includes the perspectives of wealthy, white people, leaving out the persepectives of so many others. nblake5 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208799663 2021-02-16 21:17:46 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208799663 mary_clark8 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208799786 Introduce characters and characterization. ]]> 2021-02-16 21:17:49 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208799786 ssilver19 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208799806 To see how easily someone can be manipulated by "facts".]]> 2021-02-16 21:17:49 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208799806 Perspectives of "the help" who are mentioned, but never heard from logannradigan https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208799896 anyone who is not in the aristocracy is muted in this society.... we can learn a lot from that, but if we just accept it as truth we will miss a lot]]> 2021-02-16 21:17:51 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208799896 I would love to hear the voices of POC and women. One of my greatest irritations with this book is that Daisy's will is ignored until the very end and even though Fitzgerald mentions things like the book Tom is reading, we never actually hear from POC (except Wolfsheim who is a horribly offensive stereotype of a Jewish person). https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208799934 2021-02-16 21:17:52 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208799934 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208800076 The story being told is of the changes occurring in white Middle class with the dawn of industry. It touches on, but does not call out 5he fear engendered by the Harlem Renaissance,  nor does it tell the story of the changes in rural America ]]> 2021-02-16 21:17:55 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208800076 Not included: the poor, the uneducated, the immigrants, the POC. I remember them being mentioned occasionally throughout the book, but they are more like props. hernandez_english https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208800158 2021-02-16 21:17:57 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208800158 lauren_palek https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208800177 My education impacts the way I've taught this text before--having studied it in both undergraduate and graduate school I have always considered it masterful and have not looked at it with the lens of criticality]]> 2021-02-16 21:17:58 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208800177 Historical story b_brackrobertson https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208800275 Fitzgerald is telling the story of the old money, the rich at the height of the 1920's and how the poor will never be allowed to participate in the story. It is not for them, even Gatsby who is rich, but not old money rich, can't participate. ]]> 2021-02-16 21:18:00 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208800275 Wealthy white Americans celebrating their whiteness. There is no real story for women or BIPOC communities that exist without the white narrative around it. heidi_patton https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208800442 2021-02-16 21:18:04 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208800442 The imagined audience is one of privilege, in that they recognize the setting and characters and maybe can relate to that, but also an audience clever enough to see Tom as a bit of an idiot. A somewhat socially aware and critical audience, but more in an academic, almost condescending kind of way. jalmond2 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208800735 2021-02-16 21:18:09 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208800735 anyone who is not a WASP https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208800750 2021-02-16 21:18:09 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208800750 white, well off educated https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208801063 2021-02-16 21:18:15 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208801063 Nick, from Minnesota and Daisy's cousin. https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208801064 2021-02-16 21:18:15 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208801064 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208801351 social commentary about the socio/economic disparities within American society, and how the tie to old and new money affects your way of life

He wrote The Great Gatsby as an exploitation of the American Dream that he asserts isn't really meant for everyone based on the inequality at the foundation of American culture. ]]> 2021-02-16 21:18:22 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208801351 Not being told: The continued expansion of European colonialism into Asia, South America, and Africa; the continued brutalization of Black people in the united states, which included people dressing up to watch lynchings; the artistic and scientific contributions of Asian, African, and South American people throughout history. https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208801568 2021-02-16 21:18:26 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208801568 Peril of low expectations? https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208801595 Tom is a cartoonish racist. Not that racist like him don't exist, but he's a very easy figure for white people- even very racist ones- to separate themselves from. I worry this could be insidious in its own way, allowing teachers to perform a low-stakes and uncritical version of anti-racism that launders other beliefs of theirs that are more insidiously racist.]]> 2021-02-16 21:18:27 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208801595 How do we show the perspectives of those who do not have a voice in this novel? Also, when will we start to find novels written more recently that are more relevant? Why do we focus so much on white, dead, male authors? drichme https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208801600 2021-02-16 21:18:27 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208801600 Middle/upper class white Americans jennifer_killmer https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208801844 2021-02-16 21:18:33 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208801844 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208801922 The ending of the Great War, Prohibition, The Great Depression ]]> 2021-02-16 21:18:35 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208801922 donald_dilliplane https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208802169 The white, upper class story is primarily told. The white working class story is peripherally explored but literally run over and murdered. The "valley of ashes" and brief interactions, such as drive-bys and a Jewish man (Wolfsheim), are the most we see of the stories never told regarding any other race, ethnicity, or economics. ]]> 2021-02-16 21:18:41 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208802169 post WWI, Jim Crow south, puts Tom's position and immediate fears in context--appallingly https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208802312 2021-02-16 21:18:43 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208802312 Imperialis, post colononia https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208802449 2021-02-16 21:18:46 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208802449 The author's purpose was to portray the concerns of the wealthy Americans and how these concerns ultimately do nothing to dampen their positions of privilege. The concerns are regarded as almost a joke within the circles of privilege. https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208802503 2021-02-16 21:18:48 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208802503 sara_tani https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208802680 The Historical story that is being told is that upper classes focused on white experiences]]> 2021-02-16 21:18:52 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208802680 The text takes place in the 1920's..after WWI and before the great depression. nblake5 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208802783 2021-02-16 21:18:55 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208802783 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208802896 White middle/upper-middle class and those who had access to the cultural capital that is discussed in the book]]> 2021-02-16 21:18:57 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208802896 IMperialism, post colonialism https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208802945 2021-02-16 21:18:58 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208802945 mary_clark8 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208803031 The perspective of the white character's in included. The perspective that is not included is people of color. ]]> 2021-02-16 21:19:00 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208803031 joseph_smorol https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208803068 The author intends to characterize Tom as someone who is not only racist, but also as someone who thinks highly of himself. He is someone who likes to dominate the conversation, despite espousing pseudoscientific theories about race and eugenics. He paints his truth as fact, and Nick is observant here, but never offers any criticism. From this, we can seemingly learn as much from Tom's belligerence as we can from Nick's Silence. ]]> 2021-02-16 21:19:01 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208803068 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208803384 I am aware of historical context, what has just happened and what is about to happen. This increase my ability to read between the lines. I would need to be able to teach the students to draw these connections and read between the lines. ]]> 2021-02-16 21:19:09 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208803384 to characterize Tom as ignorant and dangerous, willing to believe and spread lies presented as facts in order to further his power, privilege and worldview while the people around him aren't particularly bothered by or willing to challenge his white supremacy even if they don't buy into it themselves jessica_glynn https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208803468 2021-02-16 21:19:11 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208803468 For a long time I read and taught this book without investigating these missing voices. But I eventually realized that they were indeed missing, so now I make sure to bring it up when we discuss this text. For example, we taught a lesson last week on Conflict and character motivation in Gatsby, and we analyzed what motivated each character. We had a lengthy discussion about how difficult this exercise was for Daisy, because she does not seem to be fully developed like the male characters. https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208803521 2021-02-16 21:19:12 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208803521 It would be easy to focus on the overt racism and sexism, and miss the subtleties. amy_thomton https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208803989 2021-02-16 21:19:23 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208803989 why is the non white perspective lack importance in this book? What are the consequences of ignoring the powerless and disenfranchised? https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208804007 2021-02-16 21:19:24 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208804007 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208804157 Who benefits from reading this text? What is the perspective that is not explored?]]> 2021-02-16 21:19:27 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208804157 How to best make connections to the present? https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208804607 Racists and those of immense privilege view equity, equality, and shifting national demographics as oppression. ]]> 2021-02-16 21:19:39 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208804607 White, educated, male, influential perspective. Not included- everyone else. https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208804624 2021-02-16 21:19:39 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208804624 Characterization/Historical Backdrop (though brief) https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208804627 Tom is characterized further as the "hulking/violent/etc." with his reference to this book on white supremacy/the "superior" race, but he's also seen as a figure who shouldn't be completely listened to (every other character seems to be listening to Tom with one ear toward someone/something else or even trying to hold their own conversations. They dismiss him as a threat which also implies their own complacency in the work of white supremacy since they don't say anything/challenge him outright--probably because he is in the ultimate position of power of his house (white, man, head of house).]]> 2021-02-16 21:19:39 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208804627 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208804759 Characterization, to establish who they are, and the air of privilege of their conversation and it's elitism. ]]> 2021-02-16 21:19:42 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208804759 American Dream Failure shelby_harold https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208804791 I am wondering if we could use this text to expose the failure of the American Dream and highlight prominent Black leaders like Malcom X and Fred Hampton that were always critical of the "American Dream" and capitalism. This might be a layer to add. ]]> 2021-02-16 21:19:43 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208804791 There is a very niche theme in the sense that it's 'Old Rich" versus "New Rich" in this novel and... is this something students need to spend ~200 pages or reading and lessons to focus on? joseph_linscott https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208804886 2021-02-16 21:19:45 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208804886 Author's intent is to place Daisy and Nick above Tom and reveal him to be a bit extra. Also, to call attention to some important social issues of the time, but not necessarily to battle them. jalmond2 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208805166 2021-02-16 21:19:52 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208805166 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208805201 In some ways it is like Gone With TheWind" It is describing a way of life that is on its way out.]]> 2021-02-16 21:19:53 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208805201 Characterization https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208805253 To characterize Tom and the power rich white folks have to say/ do whatever they want without consequence. ]]> 2021-02-16 21:19:54 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208805253 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208805413 When I first read this, I compared and contrasted my own experience with the characters. I related to the white privilege, but did not see myself as a female or a working class person represented. I think it's important to always compare and contrast your ideas and live with characters in novels you read]]> 2021-02-16 21:19:57 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208805413 American Imperialism logannradigan https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208805467 Grief after the "Great War," discrimination and Jim Crow after the end of slavery, mass depression following this story

If you view the '20s as a great fun time, it's easier to see the main characters in Gatsby as sympathetic... however, they're not created to be sympathetic. We can view the big crash, race riots, etc. as direct results of the attitudes Tom promotes. ]]> 2021-02-16 21:19:59 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208805467 White upper/middle class students from a privileged background chesney_randi https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208805526 2021-02-16 21:20:00 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208805526 It's interesting because I don't think the text glorifies wealth or privilege AT ALL--I think it very clearly shows how appalling and callous the behavior of white privilege is carried out, and the shallow and superficial trappings of wealth and power. I definitely think it is an indictment of privilege, not a celebration of it. https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208805705 2021-02-16 21:20:04 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208805705 Warning against the American Dream (at least one perspective of it) to some extent hernandez_english https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208805916 2021-02-16 21:20:09 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208805916 lauren_palek https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208806254 To characterize Tom and give insight into the racial ideologies he holds]]> 2021-02-16 21:20:16 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208806254 donald_dilliplane https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208807426 Fitzgerald was clearly telling a story based on what he knew, not seeking to don voices and perspectives of which he knew little or none. He, instead, creates an unreliable narrator who criticizes the wealthy, interacts with and sympathizes with the working class slightly, yet still completely fails to understand them and clearly reveals racial biases and prejudices ("anything can happen" after seeing POC driving in NYC and his descriptions of Wolfsheim as practically just his Jewish nose).]]> 2021-02-16 21:20:44 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208807426 1920's imperialism, jim crow south https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208807776 2021-02-16 21:20:53 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208807776 Anyone who is not a rich, white person of power at this time. amy_thomton https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208807795 2021-02-16 21:20:54 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208807795 Middle Class White Folks https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208807997 This story focuses on the perspective of middle class white folks. The way wealth is described, portrayed and even at times villianized speaks to beliefs of middle class white Americans. Even the poor characters who are introduced are seen through the eyes of middle class people. They are not humanized, but rather pitied and eventually killed off. 
All other perspectives are not directly included in the text.]]> 2021-02-16 21:20:58 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208807997 The story being told is one of white affluent society, high in the social order and a bit savvy and certainly learned. jalmond2 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208808230 2021-02-16 21:21:03 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208808230 Prohibition, Pre-Great Depression era, still had problematic views towards Black people (i.e. Tom and his book) hernandez_english https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208808798 2021-02-16 21:21:18 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208808798 Be cautionary towards the American Dream chesney_randi https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208808904 2021-02-16 21:21:20 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208808904 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208809136 White perspective, from one group of people ]]> 2021-02-16 21:21:27 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208809136 1920s https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208809507 Roaring 20s, segregation in the south.]]> 2021-02-16 21:21:37 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208809507 The glitz and glamour of the roaring twenties-- seen entirely through whiteness. This limited, single perspective of US society at this time period is dangerous and must be disrupted with intentionality. I remember reading this book in HS with the belief that the 20s was a time of spirited expression and beautiful creation. I ask now-- for who? margaret_flynn https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208809679 2021-02-16 21:21:41 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208809679 The historical story being told is that of white privilege during the Roaring 20s. There are little to no outside perspectives within in the text. https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208810146 2021-02-16 21:21:51 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208810146 Obviously the perspective and voice of the people being discussed (and feared, by Tom), but that is really not the point. Tom is seen as a buffoon, but not because he is racist. The other characters seem not overly upset on a social justice level. jalmond2 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208810548 2021-02-16 21:22:02 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208810548 There are only 3-4 other instances in the book where race is mentioned, but Fitzgerald was not an anti-racist. His message was narrower and focused on privilege and the American Dream for white people- largely ignoring how people of color experience the "American Dream". anna_branton https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208810668 2021-02-16 21:22:05 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208810668 Perspetive b_brackrobertson https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208810850 Only Nick's perspective is told. We see the story from his point of view. ]]> 2021-02-16 21:22:09 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208810850 Inclusion https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208810977 The text demonstrates how privilege works, specifically how there are particular gatekeepers to particular groups. Nick, our narrator, is signaling to us that Tom is symbolic of the white, rich, and privileged in society, and Nick does so unfavorably. Why does Nick's attitude towards his audience want us to NOT include ourselves in Tom's group? In which group is he signaling for us to be a part of? In other words, what is Nick's version of America?]]> 2021-02-16 21:22:12 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208810977 The historical story that is told is about the rich getting richer. The story that is not being told is the story of everyone else that matters: people of all races, cultures, and people from other socio-economical backgrounds other than people of privileged backgrounds. chesney_randi https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208811076 2021-02-16 21:22:14 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208811076 The perspectives of anyone who isn't a well-off white male is omitted from the text. https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208811236 2021-02-16 21:22:18 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208811236 1920s https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208811252 This was a time that was like, the calm among the storm. The Great War had just ended, but economic ruin was right around the corner. Although slavery had been ended for many years, segregation was still a significant issue. I think this contributes to the meaning of the text because acknowledging POC was emerging, however it was still in this negative connotation. ]]> 2021-02-16 21:22:18 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208811252 ssilver19 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208811382 Everyone but privileged white pople]]> 2021-02-16 21:22:21 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208811382 The movie The Birth of a Nation came out ten years before this book did. Stapleton, a known KKK member, was serving his first term as mayor of Denver when The Great Gatsby was released. This leads me to consider the flippancy with which people displayed their racism. https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208811584 2021-02-16 21:22:26 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208811584 My leftist, woke lens requires a pretty intense discussion of this text as explicitly anti-privilege https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208811733 2021-02-16 21:22:31 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208811733 Every perspective except middle-upper class, educated white people in western society is left out. But, when I teach this book, we analyze and evaluate and look at tangential experience and texts. The holes in the narrative from Nick's limited perspective are nearly a character for analysis all on their own. anna_branton https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208811893 2021-02-16 21:22:35 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208811893 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208811958 I read the idea that Gatsby's big secret is that he is not white. The suggestion of that lens raises new questions about the message of the novel. I also always wonder what Fitzgerald really meant to tell.]]> 2021-02-16 21:22:36 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208811958 Roaring 20s & Excessive Wealth donald_dilliplane https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208812808 The commentary and satire directly relate to the failure of the American Dream and the top heavy economics and politics of the country. It comments, too, that those that seek to become wealthy, New Money, are still looked down upon and will never truly be considered the upper echelon. Plus, Gatsby "rose" only through illegal means.]]> 2021-02-16 21:22:53 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208812808 Meaning of text b_brackrobertson https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208813272 Everyone wants to be rich and white in the 1920's. ]]> 2021-02-16 21:23:01 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208813272 Why. hernandez_english https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208813296 That's it. That's the question.

If we're expanding on that, assuming that this book continues to be a required reading for students, how can we tie in opportunities to challenge what is in this story?]]> 2021-02-16 21:23:02 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208813296 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208813421 What is not included is the story of people of color and the feminist perspective.

We aren't even really getting Daisy's prescriptive. 

There is an element of fear because it starts off with saying they don't want people of color to hold power and that "civilization is going to pieces" the story and it's written by a old dead white guy.]]> 2021-02-16 21:23:04 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208813421 The only perspective included (or seems to matter) is that of wealthy white males. https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208813577 2021-02-16 21:23:07 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208813577 ssilver19 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208814134 Roaring 20s, post World War I]]> 2021-02-16 21:23:23 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208814134 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208814164 The story of people of color and people in the working class or who were considered poor are not told. The immigrant story (if we're thinking about the "American Dream") is also not told completely. Tom references the Nordic background, but other people groups are not. ]]> 2021-02-16 21:23:24 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208814164 Post WWI, American exceptionalism, progress, affluence and extravagance. jalmond2 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208814717 2021-02-16 21:23:37 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208814717 Why this text? Why not a text with similar themes set in modern times that is told from the perspective of someone not white and not male? https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208815128 2021-02-16 21:23:46 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208815128 As a feminist, it's easy to combat the misogyny of Tom and see how his toxic masculinity and white supremacy are linked. logannradigan https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208815136 Also anti-consumerism lenses help us critique the main characters. ]]> 2021-02-16 21:23:46 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208815136 Questions b_brackrobertson https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208815167 Why do we love this time period? Will 2022 mirror this time period? Are we including everyone's voice today? ]]> 2021-02-16 21:23:47 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208815167 Post WWI, pre-depression, post 1918 influenza pandemic, greater divide between wealthy and poor, more folks moving to cities. https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208815916 2021-02-16 21:24:06 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208815916 It was written in the wake of WW1 and it provides the text with a sort of "anything is possible (if you're white and have money)" mindset, but there is also a kind of melancholy toward serious topics. https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208816023 2021-02-16 21:24:09 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208816023 Post WWI, Roaring 20s jennifer_killmer https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208816875 2021-02-16 21:24:30 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208816875 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208817688 Is the reference to the butler's nose and the silver a reference to anti-semitism?]]> 2021-02-16 21:24:48 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208817688 I'm a white, feminist, female. https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208817719 2021-02-16 21:24:49 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208817719 White-male perspective is included, but no other prospectives chesney_randi https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208818377 2021-02-16 21:25:04 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208818377 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208818956 White perspective, and the elitist perspective. There is a patriarchal  side of history. We get the rich white man's story.

People of color and female stories are not being told. With that we are also not getting the great depression's story either.]]> 2021-02-16 21:25:18 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208818956 White, educated, upper/middle class https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208819444 2021-02-16 21:25:29 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208819444 There are no perspectives from people of color mentioned in Gatsby. https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208819945 2021-02-16 21:25:39 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208819945 Inclusion, Appropriation, and/or Satire donald_dilliplane https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208819980 Fitzgerald cannot speak for marginalized groups, and so it seems he seeks to satirize what and who he knows, the wealthy white class. Can he include marginalized groups without being an appropriator? Can he satirize and comment on the problems of the perspective, properly, solely while in that perspective?]]> 2021-02-16 21:25:40 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208819980 I love to read so I love this book. But my background as a teacher tells me that this is not the text that will get our students engaged in English class. https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208820116 2021-02-16 21:25:42 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208820116 The imagined audience for me is upper middle class White people. benjamin_isaac https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208820941 2021-02-16 21:26:04 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208820941 American Imperialism chesney_randi https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208820953 2021-02-16 21:26:04 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208820953 Post WW1, a time where the roaring 20's were blooming and society's opinion of you was largely based on economic status. https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208820964 2021-02-16 21:26:05 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208820964 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208821659 What supplemental texts can we pull in to show the other cultural perspectives that differ from GG?]]> 2021-02-16 21:26:21 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208821659 Identity b_brackrobertson https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208821800 I love this book, but also love how every time I pick it up, this book changes for me. When I first read the story in college, I struggled with the vocab, I focused on the love story, and it is a text that always reminds me of how I wasn't prepared for college. Most of my students in class had already read it. It is a reminder for me of how much my high school education set me behind and how it was impossible, even in college to catch up. As I have I taught through the years, I ground it in the culture of today, I focus on the vocabulary, and impowering others. ]]> 2021-02-16 21:26:25 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208821800 How can we focus on power and power dynamics in the text while still preparing students for the essay prompt? https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208821898 2021-02-16 21:26:28 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208821898 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208822617 Why is this section seemingly ignored in traditional teachings of Gatsby? ]]> 2021-02-16 21:26:47 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208822617 What lens should we use critically analyze this text? https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208822859 2021-02-16 21:26:53 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208822859 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208823064 As a person wh grew up without money, I am very comfortable with the aspects of criticism of the entitled. I also am strongly aware of the  simplicity  of the way women are portrayed ]]> 2021-02-16 21:26:58 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208823064 Being a white male, I see my privilege reflected in the characters. https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208824994 2021-02-16 21:27:45 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208824994 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208826412 This is tough for ANY one to be able to relate to.]]> 2021-02-16 21:28:22 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208826412 I'm a Black woman, I don't interpret it positively. When I read it in high school, I imagined Black characters instead to help me get through it. I have not taught this text yet. hernandez_english https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208827412 2021-02-16 21:28:46 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208827412 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208827771 Great depression, post WWI, roaring 20s. It's not just an English content thing, it is a cross discipline that are very "white lensed" and it needs to change. The story that is being told is from the "successful white rich man" and the old vs. new money conversation. ]]> 2021-02-16 21:28:56 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208827771 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208827979 Ultimately, what is our purpose as an educational institution, for reading this text and texts like it?]]> 2021-02-16 21:29:01 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208827979 Nick: white heteronormative male (important to think about his gaze) https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208829432 2021-02-16 21:29:39 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208829432 White middle class/lower middle class https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208831118 2021-02-16 21:30:16 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208831118 The American Dream is questionable https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208832544 2021-02-16 21:30:53 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208832544 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208834412 He is focused on the economic and classist limitations of the American Dream. He does not interrogate wither the racial or gender norms/expectations; there is no critical lens on Daisy's perspective or a question of how the white privilege exists

]]> 2021-02-16 21:31:39 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208834412 donald_dilliplane https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208835514 White, Male, Lower Middle Class, Bisexual: I address all the class, racial, gender, and sexuality issues all brought up throughout the text.]]> 2021-02-16 21:32:08 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208835514 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208836298 What other texts can we add to help tell the stories that aren't being told in this text? (If we have to teach this text and can't burn the canon).]]> 2021-02-16 21:32:26 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208836298 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208839022 As much as we may love this text, is it too problematic to continue to keep it within curriculums or does it perpetuate students of color not being seen in a text? Could Gatsby become a supplemental text to reading Hurston instead? ]]> 2021-02-16 21:33:34 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208839022 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208839754 BIPOC, women, LGBTQ]]> 2021-02-16 21:33:53 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208839754 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208840708 How can we help students to read not for "comprehension" of the text, but rather with a criticla lens of whose voices are privilged and whose are absent]]> 2021-02-16 21:34:19 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208840708 Nick (mid-westerner, upper middle class - borderline wealthy) https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208842900 2021-02-16 21:35:10 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208842900 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208843486 Gender; experience as a critical theorist in my own research]]> 2021-02-16 21:35:22 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208843486 White https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208847836 2021-02-16 21:37:01 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208847836 The illusory nature of the American dream https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208848405 2021-02-16 21:37:16 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208848405 Roaring 20's, American Dream, post-WW1 https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208855232 2021-02-16 21:40:06 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208855232 White upper class males https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208856787 2021-02-16 21:40:39 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208856787 Why does Fitzgerald include this section - i.e. is he making fun of Tom Buchanon? Is there a deeper motivation? https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208858317 2021-02-16 21:41:19 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208858317 The Role of Bystanders https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208891497 In my own experience of working with texts on teaching about the Holocaust, we talk a lot about how it couldn't have happened without bystanders. Nick, Daisy, and Jordan seem to play that role pretty strongly. Is that another path we choose to walk down for teaching this text? Or is it like teaching Mein Kampf during a Holocaust unit. We just don't do that (I hope). We focus on the survivors and the victims' stories. ]]> 2021-02-16 21:56:26 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_casey1/is827o9zp16lp7ns/wish/1208891497