DIRECTIONS: 

1. Choose one pair of characters (Buchanan and Grant or Wolfsheim and Rothstein.

2.Look over the questions for the pair.

3. Read the historical figure's link

.4. Answer the questions. You may write on binder paper or open a worddocument and type your answers. If you "copy and paste' and material from the reading, be sure to put it inside quotation marks!

CHARACTER

QUESTIONS

1. What are the similarities between Tom Buchanan's and Grant's views on the races? Why would these views have been popular among wealthy, white Americans in the '20s? Answer and then cut-and-paste three lines from both Gatsby and the article to support your response.

2. How would both men feel about Muslims in the wake of 9/11/01? Answer and then cut-and-paste three lines to support your response.

3.What organizations or attitudes today might be similar to those of Grant and Buchanan?

http://www.understandingrace.org/history/science/eugenics_physical.html

EUGENICS MOVEMENT

http://www.eugenicsarchive.org/html/eugenics/essay7text.html

I10 additional points for reading the article below and answering the questions:

1. Is the Eugenics movement dead or alive? What evidence do you have for this from the link below?

2. Who is the author? What is the source of this webpage? Why do you think it is so hard to discover?

http://www.white-history.com/hwr54i.htm

TRY TO FIND OUT WHO SPONSORED THIS BOOK…OR WHEN…READ DISCRIMINATELY: Has the eugenics movement disappeared…..?

MEYER WOLFSHEIM and Rothstein (Rothstein's description is  on the left beneath Wolfsheim)

Reread the passage from Great Gatsby on the left about Meyer Wolfsheim, then read underneath that passage about the character Arnold Rothstein that Meyer was based on.

1. What was the Black Sox Scandal? CITE SPECIFIC QUOTATIONS FROM THE ARTICLE!

2. What was Rothstein's role in it?

3. What were the major similarities between Rothstein and Wolfsheim in the novel?

4. ?In an anti-Semitic mind of the 1920s, how would Rothstein's infamous act reinforce common stereotypes about their ethnicity? Answer and then cut and paste three lines from the article on the right to support your conclusion.

5. Leaving the ethnic stereotyping aside, how might  Wolfsheim and Rothstein represent  aspects  that are corrupt and impure about America or Gatsby? Answer and then cut-and-paste three lines from the article on the right to support your response.

ARNOLD ROTHSTEIN

Black Sox Fiasco