Black Death (Bubonic Plague) RAFT Writing Project + Rubric

Would you like to enliven history with a fun, challenging writing project? The Black Death RAFT Writing Project contains a RAFT writing project for the history classroom.

This project may be used as a creative research project or as a summarizing assignment to end a unit of study on the Middle Ages or another aspect of European History.

What is a RAFT, you might ask? RAFT is an acronym that stands for Role, Audience, Format, and Topic. It is a powerful writing strategy that provides rigor, flexibility, and variety.

A RAFT can be implemented in all content areas, thus making it an excellent Writing Across the Curriculum resource.

Young writers might pursue one of several genres of writing to create one of several products.

In this project, students have four writing options to choose from. They may role-play as a Sicilian authority figure, a Venetian trader, an English nurse, or a French tailor.