The Great Gatsby

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>The Telemachos Guided Reading Editions of classic novels are designed to encourage educators to teach once again from the unabridged literary treasury of Western Civilization. </strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Each edition provides students-unaccustomed to the sentence structure and vocabulary of novels written over a century ago-</span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>a path alongside the story itself of directed questions which light their way toward understanding the novel's concrete details of plot character conflict and imagery</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> details essential for all young readers to grasp when they enter for the first time into the world</span><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> created by F. Scott Fitzgerald.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Each Telemachos Guided Reading Edition</strong></p><ul><li><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>establishes close-reading skills that become over time customary during the act of reading;</span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>outlines a process by which educators help students find an appropriate analytical voice for crafting written arguments based upon the evidence the story itself provides and the related associations arising therein;</span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>offers sample pages illustrating how a reader can personally annotate a text for evidence and associations in preparation for constructing an essay;</span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>includes</span><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> footnotes </span><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>for both historical and literary context and in most cases a glossary of vocabulary from the novel.</span></li></ul><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>About the Editor</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Michael Degen Ph.D. has been teaching AP English for over thirty years primarily at Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas. He has served as a College Board consultant and workshop presenter nationally and throughout Texas where he has provided instructional guidance for over 5o school districts.  He is the author of </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Crafting Expository Argument Prospero's Magic and Virginia Woolf: A Contribution to the Essay Form.</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> His most recent book is co-authored with his former student and colleague Ian Berry- </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>The Instructional Coach's Playbook: Classroom Strategies Informed by Neuroscience Athletics and Psychology</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>. </span></p>