✦GODLevel 7 · High School TrackUS Grades 9–12Lexile 1070LAR (ATOS) 7.3
📖 Read the book first: you need a copy of The Great Gatsby to use this workbook. Recommended edition: Scribner paperback, ISBN 9780743273565. Another edition works if you can follow the chapters. All recommended editions →
Subject Personalities
The real-world subjects this novel study leans into — the depth behind every Knowledge Bank and reading passage.
PRIMARY LENS
🏢 America in the 1920s
Prohibition, the Black Sox scandal, the ash dumps of Queens, the automobile boom and the Long Island Gold Coast — the real history under the novel.
SUPPORTING
💰 The American Dream
Self-invention and the self-made man, the fortunes dug out of the ground in the Gilded Age, and where the phrase itself came from in 1931.
SUPPORTING
📚 How the Story Is Told
A narrator who promises not to judge, a catalog of party guests, and an ending that returns to the first image of the book.
