Our current writing project is titled "The Lens of History" and has to do with researching a historical event and then writing about it. We decided to make it a bit more interesting though by giving the students a choice. They can either choose to write a research paper detailing their event or they can turn it into more of a historical fiction story (which is harder to do).
I have given the students the following criteria so far:
I have given the students the following criteria so far:
- Be specific, rather than pick "slavery" for example pick a certain part of slavery such as the North American Slave Trade. Otherwise their research will be much too broad.
- Put yourself in someone's shoes, take on the perspective of someone who has lived through it to develop deeper thinking and empathy for the situation.
- Limit your pictures, but make sure the ones you do include contain vital information.
- Include at least one map.
- Sources should be cited using Easybib or something similar.
- Research now, we will start to write in a few weeks after we do outline etc.
- Use books whenever possible as your starting point.
- Length should be between 4 and 10 pages typed, double spaced, size 12 font.
- Pick something of interest to write about, you can pick any event in history that you want to learn about.
- Figure out how to best keep track of your research.
More info will come as we get further into the project. Project due date will be mid-February dependin gon how we are doing.
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