new Gatsby chapter video lectures

chapter 5

Chapter 6


Chapter 7



Chapter 8

Chapter 9

The Great Gatsby Student Commentaries on chp 6-9

Here are some student made commentaries covering important moments in chapters 6,7,8 and 9 of The Great Gatsby.

Very interesting Documentary on the life of F Scott Fitzgerald

This BBC2 documentary gives you detailed background on the biographical and cultural contexts that influence the Great Gatsby.

Watch it here.

BBC Radio 4 In Our Time Archive

The In Our Time radio Programmes Archive are now available. Here you will find a wide range of radio programmes covering all the literary periods of your main texts. Hereis one on Oscar Wilde and The Aesthetes. There are also a series of Shakespeare Programmes to access. I have put a link on Twitter to the recent elizabethan Tragedies programme which will be useful for The Tempest and Tis Pity She's a Whore.

Students' Commentary on Great Gatsby chapter 8

Thank you to the students who produced this video commentary on Gatsby chapter 8. If you scroll down to the bottom of the blog you will also find more student soundcloud audio commentaries taken from student presentations on chapters 6,7,8 and 9.

Great Gatsby Teacher video on narrative

Here is video feedback on the written assignment on narrative in The Great Gatsby. I comment on some students work and give examples of how to become more detailed and analytical. Here

The Great Gatsby Video lectures

SCC School have produced a series of short video lectures on key moments in the novel. You can find them here

Finding additional resources on itunesU

If you have an itunes account you will find a mass of university and media resources on your chosen texts for coursework and exams. ItunesU is the educational section of itunes and all of the resources are free. Radio programmes and university lectures and podcasts can be downloaded to your devices. A recent search found resources on: Emily Dickinson's Poetry, Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allan Poe's Turn of the Screw, Gatsby, a mass of resources on Shakespeare, T S Eliot's The Wasteland, Chaucer's canterbury Tales. Additionally Language students will find items of interest on language and gender,technology,power, langugae acquisition and change.

The New York Times resources on The Great Gatsby

For those of you studying The Great Gatsby for coursework you will find The New York Times a rich area of study. Find plenty of background criticism and contexts here. It even has the mansion that inspired the Fitzgerald to write the book.

New English Department Blog

We are hoping to use this blog for both Literature and Language students. We will post things relevant to your courses here but also check our twitter site on engwoodhouse. Here is a very useful series of video podcasts on The Great Gatsby from SCCEnglish. http://www.sccenglish.ie/search/label/Gatsby%20ShowMe