For this assignment, you will create a 5 slide 1920’s newspaper using MS Word, MS Power point or Prezi.

Your newspaper (stories and pictures) should be 5-8 slides in length.

News (first slide)
Create a catchy title for your newspaper, and write at least one news story featuring a major historical event based on the document/artifact you found in the American Memory collection (Library of Congress-the first assignment in this module). Write at least one fictionalized news story that relates to the time period and to The Great Gatsby.

Include all of the parts found on the front page of a newspaper including the “flag” (newspaper name), date, headlines, pictures, and captions, etc.

Editorials

Write a one page fictionalized editorial based on details from the 1920’s or about an incident in The Great Gatsby. Refer to specific events that would be of interest to a reader in this time period.

Lifestyles

Write a one page fictionalized lifestyle story based on the 1920’s time period or details from The Great Gatsby. Include all of the parts found on the lifestyle page of a newspaper as well as headlines, captions, and pictures, etc.

Entertainment

Write a one page fictionalized entertainment story based on the time period of the 1920’s or details from The Great Gatsby.

Include a picture.

Obituaries

Write at least one fictionalized obituary (1 page) for a character from The Great Gatsby. Include a picture of the deceased person.

Heres a link to a free text of the Great Gatsby: https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/gatsby/full-text/