To read more posts on my blog about The Great Gatsby CLICK HERE.
Below you will find wordles of each of the chapters in The Great Gatsby. In case you are not familiar with wordle.net, it takes texts and gives a visualization of the most frequently used words. The bigger the word, the more frequently it is used.
HERE is a link to other posts dealing with The Great Gatsby.
(To see a wordle for “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, click HERE.)
CLICK on the thumbnails to see a larger version.
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Please let me know how you use these in lessons and writing assignments. I think other readers would appreciate it.
Ben Davis
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Thank you for the info on wordle, I am wondering how you created the thumbnails and the pop out image of the love song. I havnt been successful in doing similiar fro the site ?
If you mean the individual pictures coming up on a different screen when you click on them, I just did that as an option through this blog.
However, I made the thumbnails by doing a “screen grab” on my Mac computer. In fact, the original size was done with the screen grab, but I chose to make them appear small when I wrote that post in my blog. I will do a post this week on doing screen grabs on both Mac and Windows computers. Keep an eye out for it.
[…] allow you to take a snapshot of a specified area of your screen. That is how I made the thumbnails for my post about using Wordle with Gatsby. Below are some options for both Mac and Windows users (I have divided them […]
Thank you for allowing us to use these!
We are writing a paper based on chapters 1-5 right now…going to have the Wordle their paper and place on their cover.
Thanks again!
That is a great idea! That would also be a great way to look at word usage in one’s paper. Thanks for giving me an idea, Tammy.