The Great Gatsby Project Assignment
Due April 13, 2016
Choose one of the following six options for your final project for F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great
Gatsby. This assignment is worth 50 points. Your project will be graded on thoughtfulness,
creativity, and effort. Make sure to get started soon so you have plenty of time to do your best
work and to ask any questions that may arise.
Option One: Literary analysis. Make an argument about some aspect of the novel and support
it with textual evidence. Remember: a thesis should be controversial, so your argument should
be something that not everyone would agree with. 2-4 pages—double spaced, 12 point Calibri
font, 1 inch margins, MLA format.
Option Two: Playlist and cover art. Choose 8-10 songs that you feel represent some aspect of
the novel and write a short description (3-6 sentences) for each. Explain how the song fits with
the themes, characters, or situations in the novel. You may want to use quotes from the novel
and/or lyrics from the song to do this. Also, design a piece of cover art that goes along with
your playlist. Give your playlist a creative title and include it in your cover art.
Option Three: Storyboard. Design a storyboard (a blueprint for a film) of 6-8 frames that
depicts a scene from the novel. You may include quotes from the novel or create your own
dialogue based on the novel.
Option Four: Screenplay. Imagine you are adapting the novel for the screen. Write a scene in
screenplay format (find examples online; include dialogue, action, and scene descriptions). Your
scene should be 5-10 pages in length.
Option Five: Original photography. Take 8-10 photographs that relate to the novel in some way,
and then arrange them in a scrapbook that includes short descriptions (3-6 sentences) for each
photograph that explain how it fits with the themes, characters, or situations in the novel. You
might consider including quotes from the novel in your descriptions. Your scrapbook may be in
digital form, if you prefer, and submitted via email to frazier.282@osu.edu.
Option Six: Create your own project. If none of these ideas are particularly desirable to you, or
you have a better idea that is somewhat comparable to the aforementioned, you may choose
to design your own project. If you want to pursue this route, you must check with me first to
make sure your idea is appropriate.