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Gilded Age Reading and Writing Workshops

This is a complete set of instructions, roles, norms, procedures, rubrics, and extensions for Gilded Age Workshops

Workshop Guide

Student Handouts

Rubrics

Selected Gilded Age Works and Workshops

The Gilded Age

McTeague

The Rise of Silas Lapham

Looking Backward

Sister Carrie

The Great Gatsby

The House of Mirth

The Jungle

Public Domain or Freely Accessible Gilded Age Works
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CORE TEXT SET (Anchor & Supplemental)

• The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today – satire & corruption

          THE GILDED AGE, COMPLETE By Twain and Warner

• The Rise of Silas Lapham – ethics & business

         The Project Gutenberg E-text of The Rise of Silas Lapham, by William Dean Howells

• Sister Carrie – ambition & consumerism

          Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser | Project Gutenberg

• The House of Mirth – class & gender

         The house of Mirth, by Edith Wharton—A Project Gutenberg eBook

• McTeague – greed & naturalism

         McTeague, by Frank Norris

• Looking Backward – reform & utopia

          Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887 by Edward Bellamy | Project Gutenberg
Extension Pairing:

• The Great Gatsby – illusion of wealth

         The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald | Project Gutenberg

• The Jungle – labor & exploitation

          The Jungle by Upton Sinclair | Project Gutenberg