Clues:



Gatsby Scavenger Hunt

Rules:

• You need: something to lean on (folder/book) as you complete clue sheets and something reliable to write with for each member of your group. Gatsby notes/books would be HELPFUL!

• You must stay in your groups as you travel from location to location. Separating groups will be regarded as individual teams and will be expected to complete the activity individually.

• Watch out for cars. Look both ways before crossing the street. There are bad drivers in Middletown just like in East Egg and West Egg!

• No cell phones. Students seen using cell phones will be disqualified.

• Good Sportsmanship is expected. Play fair, be nice.

• Winners are determined by speed and accuracy on clue worksheets.

• Clue Sheets are a process grade for class.

• Hint, in this activity, if you fail to plan, you are planning to fail.

• Two Words for the Winners: Special Prizes

Clue sheets are placed at the following locations:

• “He stretched out his arms toward the dark ____________ in a curious way, and as far as I was from him, I could have sworn he was trembling…Involuntarily, I glanced ____________ and distinguished nothing but a single green light.” This campus location ties nicely to the novel, serving as a microcosm the overall setting. Go to where he would be to see a symbol of wealth across from him.

Location(

• Nick says that Jordan is a rotten ______________. Where would it be safe for her to practice? Sophomores at Middletown meet at this cluster of signs when learning how to be less careless than Daisy and Owl Eyes.

Location(

• The belief in one of the core concepts of this novel waivered with the compromise of this national past time in 1919.

Location(

• The character of Owl Eyes is quick to point out the significance of the books in Gatsby’s library highlighting the theme of _________________ vs. __________________. This location, new to the school in the past few years, also highlights this theme. It also is a heap, but not of ashes, of another ground down substance.

Location(

• This location might remind you of the two primary settings of the novel. Think shape.

Location(

Final Home Base Location:

• The other proposed title of the novel, as imagined by Fitzgerald, would have felt right at home in this prominent school location. See you there!

Clue SHEET 1:

Quote Identification

Identify the character to whom the underlined word in each quote refers.

A. Jordan Baker

B. Daisy Buchanan

C. Tom Buchanan

D. Nick Carraway

E. Jay Gatsby

F. George Wilson

G. Myrtle Wilson

_______“Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone…just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages you’ve had.”

_______ “Two shining, arrogant eyes had established dominance over his face and gave him the appearance of always leaning aggressively forward.”

_______ “He thinks she goes to see her sister in New York. He’s so dumb he doesn’t know he’s alive.”

_______ “I’ve heard it said that ______’s murmur was only to make people lean toward her; an irrelevant criticism that made it no less charming.”

_______ “If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life…”

_______ “‘It’s just a crazy old thing,’ she said. ‘I just slip it on sometimes when I don’t care what I look like.’”

_______ “I hate careless people. That’s why I like you.”

_______ “Well,—he told me once he was an Oxford man.”

_______ “The instant her voice broke off, ceasing to compel my attention, my belief, I felt the basic insincerity of what she had said.”

_______ “I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.”

_______ “She was incurably dishonest. She wasn’t able to endure being at a disadvantage…”

_______ “He borrowed somebody’s best suit to get married in and never even told me about it, and the man came after it one day when he was out.”

_______ “…he stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and as far as I was from him I could have sworn he was trembling.”

_______ “He came down with a hundred people in four private cars…and the day before the wedding he gave her a string of pearls valued at three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.”

_______ “I had no girl whose disembodied face floated along the dark cornices and blinding signs and so I drew up the girl beside me, tightening my arms.”

_______ “The girl who was with him got into the papers too because her arm was broken—she was one of the chambermaids in the Santa Barbara Hotel.”

_______ “Then from the living room I heard a sort of choking murmur and part of a laugh followed by _______’s voice on a clear artificial note.”

_______ “You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of your dock.”

_______ “‘I never loved you.’ After she had obliterated three years with that sentence they could decide upon the more practical measures to be taken.”

_______ “He’s a bootlegger…One time he killed a man who had found out that he was nephew to von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil.”

_______ “She wouldn’t let go of the letter. She took it into the tub with her and squeezed it up into a wet ball...”

_______ “At his lips’ touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.”

_______ “I just remembered that today’s my birthday.”

_______ “You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.”

_______ “I told her she might fool me but she couldn’t fool God. I took her to the window…and I said ‘God knows what you’ve been doing...”

_______ “Usually her voice came over the wire as something fresh and cool as if a divot from a green golf links had come sailing in at the office window but this morning it seemed harsh and dry.”

_______ “I’m five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor.”

_______ “‘Beat me!’ he heard her cry. ‘Throw me down and beat me, you dirty little coward.’”

_______ “I know I’m not very popular. I don’t give big parties. I suppose you’ve got to make your house into a pigsty in order to have any friends—in the modern world.”

_______ “I’ve never used that pool all summer.”

_______ “I shook hands with him; it seemed silly not to, for I felt suddenly as though I were talking to a child.”

_______ “Afterward he kept looking at the child with surprise. I don’t think he hadever really believed in its existence before.”

_______ “I found it yesterday afternoon. She tried to tell me about it but I knew it was something funny…She had it wrapped in tissue paper on her bureau.”

_______ “Her voice is full of money.”

_______ “Well, I met another bad driver, didn’t I? I mean it was careless of me to make such a wrong guess. I thought you were rather an honest, straightforward person.”

Clue Sheet 2: THEMES

Directions: Identify the themes visually represented below. Be specific with your themes, avoiding one or two word answers.

1. [pic] vs. [pic] 2. [pic]> [pic]

________________________________________ ________________________________________

3. [pic] =[pic] 4. [pic]= [pic][pic]

________________________________________ _______________________________________

5. [pic] vs. [pic] 6. [pic]([pic] ([pic]

________________________________________ ________________________________________

BONUS THEME

[pic] vs. [pic]

John Lennon Ben Franklin

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Clue Sheet 3: Symbols

Directions: Identify and explain the symbols visually represented below. Be certain that your explanation for each symbol is both brief and specific.

10. [pic] ________________________________________

11. [pic] ________________________________________

12. [pic][pic] ________________________________________

13.[pic] ________________________________________

14. [pic] ________________________________________

Clue Sheet 4:

[pic]

Clue Sheet 5:

Name: ________________________________

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