Teacher: Brown
Class: English 11
Great Gatsby
Guest Coordinator
Be sure to check out the resources under "Great Gatsby - Background" as well as those listed below.
Suggested Topics or Suggested Subject Headings and/or Key Words:
| Roaring Twenties | Jazz Age | 1920s |
Reference Books to Consult:
| R 973 HAK A History of Us Volume 9: War, Peace, and All that Jazz *1918-1945* |
| R 973.92 AME Volume 3 American Decades 1920-1929 |
| R 920.009 ENC Encyclopedia of World Biography |
| R973.91 STR The Roaring Twenties |
| R 031 WOR World Book Encyclopedia |
Online Databases on the library's homepage:
| Gale Cengage Databases - Choose Biography Resource Center, then use the individual's name as searh term. Click on the appropriate person if there is more than one. |
Websites:
| Jazz Age Biographies |
| St. Valentine's Day Massacre |
| Jazz Age Chicago |
| Kansas City: Paris of the Plains |
| Prohibition and the Gangsters |
| The Official George and Ira Gershwin Website |
| See websites under Entertainment Coordinator and Background for names of other significant figures of this time. |
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