I spent the last semester of my undergrad student teaching. I was assigned to teach two classes of juniors. For most of the semester, we worked on The Great Gatsby. It was a fairly traditional unit in which we talked about themes like the American Dream, the 1920s, and gender roles. While teaching the novel, I could not help but to think back to my own experience as a junior reading The Great Gatsby. As I discuss in another blog post, I became fixated on the idea that Nick has romantic feelings for Gatsby. I kept this in the back of my mind over the course of the unit. On what was…