Neil Bingham

English 1 or 2
American Lit
The Great Gatsby

ROLE

Fashion Designer

AUDIENCE

Daisy Buchanan, Myrtle

Wilson, and Jordan
Baker

FORMAT

TOPIC

Fashion Sketches

As a fashion designer, you are in

charge of using the color that each
character is described as wearing to
make at least two outfits per character.
Then use description to say why each
color is significant to each woman.
(Write it as if writing to her) There
will be 6 sketches in total and 300
words written.

As a journalist, you are assuming the

role of a music reviewer. You will first
listen to Over the Love off of the
soundtrack by Florence and the
Machine. Then you will annotate it
(We will have discussed annotating at
this point) After the annotation, you
will write an in-depth article
explaining the song and how it fits in
to the story. You must include: the
colors used in the song, what they
signify, how true the song is to the
story and an objective review of the
song. The article will be 500 words
written.

Journalist

Readers of the Rolling

Stone

Song Review of
Over the Love

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Self

Journal
As F. Scott Fitzgerald, you are
responsible in writing a journal to
yourself. You will be discussing each
color weve discussed in class (Green,
Blue, Yellow, White, Red) and
describe what each one means to you.
Creatively interpret where some
influence could have come from.
Additionally, look into his
background. Include at least two
(cited) events that took place in his
life. There must be 3 journal entries,

Neil Bingham
English 1 or 2
American Lit
The Great Gatsby
300 words each.

Directions
Each student will be assigned a group; Red Triangle, Green Circle, and Blue Square. In your groups you
will read over your assigned portion of the RAFT chart. RAFT stands for Role, Audience, Topic, and
Format. If you have specific questions on this, please let me know.
For all three of the groups, the idea is to address the use of color in The Great Gatsby. Each class will be
taking into account historical research, literature, color, and writing. Your roles will be described in each
Format section.

These are differentiated because the different level of thought and analysis that goes in to each of the
writings. The first one focusses more on visual learners and artistic students. Then, they use their own
artifact and the book to write the piece as letters to the women in the book. Its also a less formal orm
of writing. Second level is for audio learners who learn/work well with music. This also becomes more
difficult because instead of starting in the book and looking at the description of color, they will be
looking at the color in the description just within the song and then find it in the book. Additionally,
the form will be different and a little more structured. Finally, the last group will be challenged to look
at historical context, write in a formatted fashion and do so through another speakers voice. It
challenges them more so than the other two but they are all still learning about color in Gatsby.