Hugh Gundlach

Category: Education

  • Call Me Gatsby

    To the music and lyrics of Call Me Maybe by Carly Rae Jepsen I throw a party so well yet I’m a fly on the wall. My mansion’s like a hotel for you, Nick Carraway. I do it all for a wish – One girl I need to impress. I’m always looking for Miss Buchanan, night…

  • Guess who’s back? (The Great Gatsby)

    To the music and lyrics of Without Me by Eminem Two trust fund girls are lounging inside. (Repeat) Guess who’s back, back again? Gatz’s back, tell a friend. Guess who’s back? Guess who’s back. (Repeat)           I’ve created a monster, ’cause nobody wants no James Gatz no more; They want Gatsby, I’m chopped…

  • Incorporating Poetry into Text and Context Study

    Poetry can be neglected in senior English so one strategy to explore the mechanics of poetry, use creativity and use higher order thinking within the text content is to produce songs or poems about or by characters in the texts. It forces students to empathise with the characters, review events of the texts and rearrange their content…