Do you advise them often?” Jonas was a little frightened at the thought that one day he would be the one to advise the ruling body.
But the Giver said no. “Rarely. Only when they are faced with something that they have not experienced before. Then they call upon me to use the memories to advise them.” (103)
We study the past and its many memories in order to help make the right decisions for the future. What is one time period or event in American History that you think offers us a possible lesson for the future? In one paragraph:
- describe a time period or event in American History that you think could offer us lessons for the future,
- include details to describe the time period or event, and
- explain what you think we could learn for the future based on the history.
The Berlin wall was a mark of the cold war which was right after WWII. Germany (as a punishment) was split up into East and West. East being under the control of the Soviet Union(Communism) and West Germany being under the allies (UK, France, US) which was under Capitalism. Separation happened in Berlin too. The people could not be together but people were transgressing the law and crossing over to the other side. The fix, a wall. The Berlin wall was created to stop all traffic from place to place and keep people in their place, permanently. If anyone tried to cross from the East side to the West side they would be risking their lives for freedom. We should all be equal because everybody should be able to have the same rights. One German soldier working for The Soviet Union crossed over to the West side and encouraged others to do so because he knew that all should have equal rights.
ReplyDeletePratul, Some suggestions for your story could be a 1st person narration of the German soldier who was working for the Soviet Union. That would be a really good short story seen through his eyes. Another suggestion is that you could have a 1st person narration for a German child who's parents are on the other side of the wall. That can also be a 3rd person narration if you like. Anyway great job!
DeleteI suggest 3rd person narrations since many people are upset over the lack of rights due to the Berlin Wall. Also to describe the setting, use descriptive language to describe the wall. Are there any defenses? What's the wall made out of? Stuff like that.
DeletePratul good job. I think your story should be about about a boy who is on the east side of Germany and he is fed up about having no freedom and he forms a secret group that crosses over to the West side. It should also be in first person. I also think that you should do a novel and submit a chapter.
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During the Cold War communism spread to many places it caused many wars and many plans. Some places like China or Korea became communist. The USSR tried to get many places to switch to communist governments. One of the places that had a communist government was Cuba. The CIA made a plan called the Bay of Pigs Invasion. They got one thousand four hundred Cubains to go back to Cuba to take down Fidel Castro. The operation failed, causing many problems. The US learned how to plan an invasion since they didn’t want a repeat of the Bay of Pigs Invasion.
ReplyDeleteIt would be nice if you had a chapter of a novel in your story, since the cold war is a long period of time in history. Also I think you should have a 1st person narration in your chapter so the readers know exactly how the main character feels about the events in your chapter.
DeleteThis is a great topic to choose. I think you should have third person to understand the perspective of the Communists and people who were against the Communists. Also I would choose a chapter of a novel because this ''Cold War'' lasts over a long period of time, and would be to long for a short story. Overall , great paragraph !
DeleteIn history we have made many of mistakes and one of our mistakes is joining the Vietnam war a war from 1955 to 1975 . The Vietnam war was a war between North Vietnam and South Vietnam and had no threat on America but America wanted to help South Vietnam out but we really lost over 58 thousand troops. Many of the troops that did survive the war are now or were before death facing ptsd ,divorce,addiction and many other medical/social issues.So we can learn from the vietnam war that it is good to help out but its not good to loose many many people from“helping out”.
ReplyDeleteHi Zac, i think for your story you should be about you protesting in the vietnam war that joins mobs of people and resistance stops you from protesting and you end up killing a resistance then you spend the time running from the cops and your charecters thoughts are what gives away information about the time period. Obviosly to do this you would need to be first person narration plus doing so can exsplain your opinions on the war and why you think us joining the war was a mistake. BTW im doing vietnam war also.
DeleteZac you did an amazing job with your paragraph! Your lesson that we can learn is well thought out. Maybe include a little more information on what else the US lost from joining in on the Vietnam war.
DeleteZac you did an amazing job with your paragraph! Your lesson that we can learn is well thought out. Maybe include a little more information on what else the US lost from joining in on the Vietnam war.
Delete60 years ago Polio was a big threat to our nation. It was one of the most feared diseases in the world. Polio, or Poliomyelitis is a disease that affects the limbs. The epidemic spread from the late 1800’s to mid 1900. Polio left thousands of people dead, paralyzed, or with disfigured limbs that caused a lifelong disability. The disease, Polio, usually attacked children, but adults were prone to the disease as well. Since the disease was still new back then, no one knew how to treat or cure it. Polio is a virus that you can catch by contact with contaminated food, or swimming in contaminated water. That was why so many parents did not let their children swim outside or even go outside at all. Polio was a very deadly disease, and it was spreading one by one. We can learn from the history of Polio that our country should be ready for anything that comes our way. Be prepared for the unexpected.
ReplyDeleteJessica, I think you should do a first person narration so you can express emotion. Also, I think your main character should have polio so you can express what they see and feel. I like your paragraph. Good topic.
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DeleteJessica, I feel like your narration should have a tragic event, such as a loved one catching polio. It would help the readers feel what people felt back then. This would work better with first-person.
DeleteThe terrorists attacks on 9/11 can teach us to always be prepared for the worst. If people were more prepared for the twin towers to be destroyed, they would have been built stronger. There would also be more security in airports, if they thought that 19 people from the group Al-Qaeda would hijack 4 planes, and fly them into symbols of the United States. The attacks took the lives of about 3000 people, who weren’t prepared for the worst to happen.
ReplyDeleteElizabeth, you shoulde have a first person naration because that will help decribe the setting and the emotion in your story. Your character should be someone who works or worked in one the Twin Towers and describe how they felt and what was going on when the plane hit the tower.
DeleteElizabeth, great job. I can already feel your emotion behind it. I agree with Carrington you should write it in 1st person. But for your story I feel you should write a novel. In this novel you should start with your character in the twin towers getting hit then having to go to the hospital. Or if your character is just watching it happen you should show the sudden sacredness that they are feeling then the sadness. And how the emotion changes.
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ReplyDeleteThe year is 1991, Saddam Hussein and his armies just invaded Kuwait. What’s the response? The United States forms a coalition to push back Hussein’s force out of Kuwait. It took us a few months to fully defeat their army and drive them back into Iraq. But, even after this incident, we knew we’d see the Iraqis and Saddam Hussein again soon, very, very, soon. Fast forward to 2003, President Bush announces a new war, another operation alongside the on-going Operation Enduring Freedom, a war we all knew was coming, the infamous Iraq War. During the war the U.S. found Soviet-era SCUD missiles with biological weapons pack into them, that Saddam had hidden. Now, think of this, could this war have been prevented if we as humans had just talked a bit more with our governments? Maybe war isn’t always the best option when it comes to politics, but it usually ends with conflict. Something this world seems to always need.
Robert maybe you can talk about your charcter a little more like his age does he have kids and how all of this plays a roll in his decsisons.
DeleteMaybe since its fiction write about how it would have been if we had talked about our government.If not, Maybe your main character can be someone who fought in the war!
DeleteMartin Luther King jr. was a civil rights advocate. He would be marching on every street speaking out against discrimination. Martin Luther king's strive for equality didn’t involve violence. He wanted to take take the peaceful route and was later rewarded for his noble acts with the Nobel peace prize. As an example of one of his peaceful movements he started the Montgomery bus boycott. Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give her seat up to a white man, so Martin Luther King started the Montgomery bus boycott for a year. Later the supreme court called bus segregation unconstitutional, and no one was assigned seats because of race/color. We can learn that we shouldn't discriminate others because of their race/color, and national origin we are all the same people no matter how different we look from each other.
ReplyDeleteAs we know, Mr.Luther King JR. has done many exdordinary things in his lifetime. But was he always respected for his doings? No, I think you should explain how he was treated in exchange and his death because you want to tell your readers about how painful it would be to be Mr.Luther King Jr. in his shoes. For the setting, add a few facts how segregation and how people were mistreated based upon their skin color. Good luck!
DeleteArham,
DeleteWho is your character? is it someone who was from a different race? or person who marti luther king was fighting for? But this is a good topic and a good paragraph. overall great job!
ReplyDeleteJust think about it if you had your favorite toy taken away and you never would have it given back (to your knowledge) well that's what happened in the 1920’s. At the start of the 1920’s the american government took away our right to drink alcohol. The uproar was amazing with so many rebellions who joined the mafia or just straight up hide the liquor. Also with so many illegal trades going on since the government couldn't stop it. So they eventually gave us the right to drink again but it wasn't until 1933 when they gave us back the right to drink alcohol because they had learned their lesson to not take away something people love….
Josh,
Delete1. You should try to start your story right before the prohibition, and then move foward to right after the prohibition started. I think you should do this because it could provide a good comparison between the two times, and how the people felt about the prohibition, or if the prohibition even did anyhting.
2. Another suggestion I have is; you could make your character a mobster, or a bartender in a speakeasy.
Josh, like what Sean said, make your story start before prohibition, like Sal Kavone, introduce your character and setting, and as the story goes on change it into bars and stuff like that. Your story would definitely be a novel, and you could make one chapter talk about you being a drug smuggler or a guy in a mob, and you could work from there. Just some ideas.
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Rosa Parks, other wise known as “The Mother of the Civil Rights Movement” took a stand that affects us all today. Rosa was on a public bus that was divided up by the color of their skin. In the 1950’s white people got the first 10 seats and African Americans got the last 10 seats of the bus. If there were more white people on the bus than the African American’s,they would have to either move back or stand. Rosa was sitting it the first row of the African Americans section when the bus was picking up a new group of passengers. When they walked on, by law Rosa was supposed to move for the white man because the section was full. The bus driver call the police to have her arrested for violating the law and had to pay a fine of $14, which is equivalent to $124.02 today. On her court date, the Montgomery Bus Boycott started by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People(NAACP), which Rosa and her husband were an active member of. The NAACP boycotted riding public transportation for 382 days. One little thing that started the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Martin Luther King Jr. “I Have A Dream” speech. I hope we wouldn’t need to have anything like this in the future because hopefully everybody has learned their lesson that everyone is created equally.
ReplyDeleteFor your story, you could have your main character be someone who learns about the boycott and decides to take part in the Montgomery Bus Boycott. You could also use third person narrations to show the feelings of your main character(s) and the feelings of others at the time, as well as other details about the time period.
DeleteFor your story, I feel that it should be narrated in first person as a small African-American girl or boy who was present the day Rosa Parks refused to move her seat. Your character would be observing the whole scene and then decides to take part in the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Ore's idea is also really good of being in third person and about the plot. I agree with both, but either way the Historical Fiction will be good. Great job on the paragraph!
DeleteThe Salem Witch Trials can teach us a lesson for the future. The Salem Witch Trials was mccarthyism. People who were thought to be witches were accused, but the worst part was that the accusers would fail to provide evidence, and yet the accusers were believed. The Salem Witch Trials taught us not be believe mccarthyism, it won’t turn out well. When someone was accused of being a witch with no evidence it was believed. The witch had a trial and went to jail or was hanged. This was complete pandemonium. So next time you hear mccarthyism you may not want to believe it!
ReplyDelete1.Maybe you could add a main charecter that was accused of being a witch or even someone who is accusing someone else of being a witch.
Delete2.You could explain more about what Mccarthyism was.
I was just curious as to what exactly McCarthyism actually is. So is it like a religion or is it something the so-called 'witches' believed in. I was also curious as to how these witch trials occurred. Did someone say "that woman is a witch because she dresses in black robes!" But other than that I think you did a great job with the paragraph. But for your story I was gonna say maybe your character could be accused of being a witch or someone in your characters family.
DeleteOn may 25, 1961 John F. Kennedy set a goal to put a man on the moon and return him safely. This was huge for that time period and nobody believed that they could do it. 8 years later, Neil Armstrong spoke his famous words “ one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”. This was just 7 months after the apollo 8 mission. 500 million people watched down on earth in amusement. This was big because nobody believed that this could happening but it ended up happen. When stuff like this happens in the future, don't immediately doubt it.
ReplyDeleteI like your topic! I also like how you did this paragraph! But one thing you could do is add a bit more detail to get the lesson across. Was the lesson to not doubt something immediately? You could also add a bit more detail about your topic too, but out of that...I love it! Great job. A good idea for your story is to have your character in first person POV and add their personal experiences with Apollo 8 and how it affected your character. It would make a lot of sense. You should also maybe make your story a novel, because 8 years is a very long time to cover in a short story. You should make it from where your character was there from the very beginning of apollo 8, so make it a novel maybe?
DeleteI think your setting should be on earth and your main character should be watching Neil Armstrong land on the moon in amazement. Also I think your narration should be first person, and I think you should describe all the characters emotions when Neil Armstrong is landing on the moon.
DeleteYou have a good topic to shape a story behind. I think that maybe you can right a story from the perspective from someone who maybe works there, maybe even helping Neil Armstrong get to the moon that day.
DeleteThis is a great topic, I haven't seen anyone else do it! So I think for your story that it should be told in first person. You said that many people couldn't believe what was happening, so I think your character should be someone who was watching down below, and how they were feeling and what they were thinking.
DeleteA time period that can teach us a lesson is the time period of Chinese Immigration. Chinese immigration is typically divided in two waves, one from the 1850’s to 1880’s and one from the 1970’s to present day, but major events and important information can be found starting in 1848. This year was the start of the California gold rush, and many Chinese immigrants started to come to the United States for work, and to try to get rich off the gold. After the gold rush died out, many immigrants were still in the US when the building of the Transcontinental Railroad took place in 1862. The Union Pacific Railroad Company’s Charles Crocker started hiring Chinese immigrants because they worked cheap and did a great job tying down tracks. There were so many Chinese that were taking jobs from white people, and those Americans became angry at the Chinese. Riding the anti-Chinese fervor and the fear of overpopulation, the US Congress decided to pass the Chinese Immigration act in 1882. This act made it impossible for people from China to immigrate to the USA, as all immigration from China to the USA was suspended. This was extremely offensive to the Chinese-American community, as all other races and religions were allowed to immigrate with ease. Soon after, the Scott act was ratified and soon after the Geary act took place. These acts made it literally impossible to immigrate to the USA. There was no immigration to the USA until 1943, when Congress repealed the Chinese Exclusion act. Though the act was repealed, the damage of over half a century had taken a toll on the Chinese. The relations of China and America are still unsteady to this present day. A lesson we can comprehend from the period of Chinese immigration is to think before we take action, as many people could be offended or be distraught by what we are doing. Applying this knowledge to our lives can keep peace and balance to the world, and make for a better future.
ReplyDeleteI think that you can make your character be a chinese immigrant, and the story should tell all of the hardships and the troubles they got here. The story should be the lenght of a noval but only submit on chapter. To incorporate the message you can fast forward a priod in the future and explain the relationship. e.x. (2018) the U.S and China are allies and stuff like that I guess. Or to incorporate the message you can make the ending romantic and fore -shadow the relationship of china and the U.S.
DeleteI think you should tell the story in third person, which would allow you to get in to the heads of other people who may not like the immigrants.
DeleteAnd I also think that you should tell the story of a family of immigrants to get different perspectives/ point of views.
The Titanic
ReplyDeleteOn the magnificent in 1912 ship the titanic unsinkable was not what anyone thought it was. This ship directly went down 2.3 miles in the ocean. It took over $346 dollars just to investigate this incident. People were being submerged. It took a lot for people advancing on to this magnificent ship. They had to use $4,300 dollars for first class tickets. The 3rd class tickets were $36 dollars. This ship went down in less than 3 hours. We all must be prepared for anything possible.
Kaelyn, I have so many ideas for your topic, but I'll just give you two.
Delete1. I think that you should do 1st person so we can get the emotion striaght from the charachter.
2. Maybe you should do a flashback to when your character was on the titanic like she is telling a story to someone. It would be a great literary element and it would add even more emotion.
My first suggestion would have to be add more detail in this such as how many people where on this ship?
DeleteMy second suggestion for a story is you can talk in first person like its a memory and describe more about your lesson.
World War Two affected The U.S. and many other countries starting in the year of 1939. There were anywhere from 40 million to 60 million deaths of anyone in WWII. There was a crime, a crime against humanity. Genocide. Committed by a regular German citizen. On the Jewish race. Adolf Hitler was responsible for all of this chaos and death. This fight had gone on for six years. It could only end In two ways, we (the countries against Germany) kill Hitler or Hitler commits suicide. It ended with Hitler found in his bunker dead with a bullet through his brains in the year of 1945. Do we want the future to be like this? Fighting against people, just like us, because they were told false and hateful information about a person, group, or race? Let us be friends to the world and ourselves, to make the future a better place for everyone and everything...
ReplyDeleteWhat you wrote was kind of historicly inscurate like when you wrote It could only end In two ways, we (the countries against Germany) kill Hitler or Hitler commits suicide. There were not only two ways really Hitler could have betten us in a battle taking over the United States. Anyways everything else was rich in detail. I would probably have this in 3rd person because world war 2 was a big thing at the time it was not only you going into battle you had your squad mates, your friends, your family. Good job
DeleteAsa I think your character should be a Jewish person that survived the Holocaust. This is so you can clearly express the brutality of Hitler and the Germans at that time. You should also use first person narration for this. Asa, also make sure to include a setting for your story.
DeleteThe Transcontinental Railroad offers us many lessons. It was a railroad that was 400 miles long and went through the United States of America. One lesson we can learn from it’s construction is to be considerate and respectful of others. The Transcontinental Railroad destroyed the homes of many Native Americans. The Americans settled the land and killed all their buffalo. The new settlers took away the Native American's homes and independence. The Native Americans relied on buffalo for everything, from food, to clothing, to constructing their homes. Without the buffalo, the Native Americans couldn’t survive. Also, Charles Crocker hired Chinese workers and treated them very poorly. While some of the other American workers were provided with food, shelter, and fairly good pay, the Chinese didn’t get any of that. Would you like to be treated like that? From the Transcontinental Railroad, we can learn to treat people considerately and respectfully, just like how we’d like to be treated.
ReplyDelete1 add more about the settings
Delete2 add more about how they used the buffalo to survi
You should use third person narrations because in this paragraph your topic sounds better without a person describing it. You should also use past tense narrations because it goes good with your topic that happened a long time ago.
DeleteSeptember 11 2001 was a tragic day in history. On this day terrorist group Al-Qaeda led by Osama-bin-Laden terrorised the U.S.A. They crashed two planes into the world trade center one into the pentagon. One crashed into a field in all killing over 3,000 people in all! Within two hours, the world trade center came tumbling down to the ground. Only few survived, Over 400 police and firemen died on this day in time. Many buildings around also took a turn for the worst and came crashing down to the ground! This day can teach us to never take things for granted because our live can be taken away like that. We can learn to always be prepared for harmful things that may happen in the near future.
ReplyDeleteNice Job, Juliana!! I think your character should be the wife of someone who either died or got severely injured in the 9/11 attacks because it is a way to add a lot of figurative language and feelings into your piece. I also think that this should be in first person. Maybe be a wife at work and see that this attack happened on a TV and get super worried because you don't know if your husband is alright or not.
DeleteGood job. I think you should do 3rd person because you should show how other people feel. You also should add someone who actually was in the building and lived, and that person would tell how it felt. Of course if there were any survivors. I don't know if there were
Delete9/11 was one of the most tragic days in the last two decades. 19 hijackers from a terrorist group called al-Qaeda, led by Osama bin Laden crashed two planes into the World Trade Center. Hundreds were killed on impact of the first crash at 8:45 am. It hit the North tower near the 88th floor. At 9:03 am, 18 minutes later, the second plane hit the South tower. Firefighters and police officers were already at the scene of the first plane crash. Bodies started dropping from buildings in order to escape, not knowing they were going to have a better chance to live if they stayed. All the people below looking hopeless as they yell out the windows. 9:43, the Pentagon was destroyed by a third plane, also sent by Osama bin Laden. By this time it was clear that America was under attack. And the fourth and final plane crashed in Somerset County, Washington DC. It was aimed for the White House but passengers managed to derail the plane. This event can teach us not to take everything for granted. We need to remember that anything can happen at any time!
ReplyDeleteMy first suggestion to you is that you use 3rd person narrations because you could include other people and their feelings. My second suggestion is that your main chararctor is someone who survives the attacks in one of the Twin Towers.
DeleteMy first suggestion is that when your about to enter the the twin tower it blows up so their is like a twist to the story. My second suggestion is that you should have 1st person narration because if one of your friends in the story were in the twin tower when it blows up you describe how the character is feeling.
DeleteThe Great Depression is an event in history that could offer us many lessons in the future. The Great Depression is a time in history where millions of people lost their job, home, money etc… People were living in poverty! It all began on October 29, 1929. That’s when the stock market crashed. By 1933 about 15 million people were unemployed. Families sold household items just to make money. Things only got worse from 1931-1939 the worst drought hit. The drought spread across the United States. It caused the most trouble in the mid-western civilization and the Great Plain states. These areas became known as the “Dust Bowl”. During the Dust Bowl many awful things happened; crops died, topsoil blew away and storms went across the nation from Texas and Oklahoma to North Dakota. We can learn many things for the future like that we should be thankful for what we have because we never know what can happen. We should also take things for granted and not think about all of the things in life that we want. We can also learn for the future that the Great Depression can happen again. This is what we can learn for the future based upon the Great Depression.
ReplyDeleteJulianne, your lesson and details were amazing and very ineresting. But you could be a little more clear on whether your time period is the Dust Bowl or if it´s the Great Depression. But again, everything else was great. You could have many different characters for your story. For examlple, you could have a farmer that was in the Dust Bowl so you could show the troubles that the farmers at the time were having. Or you could have a rich person that had everything, but then on Black Tuesday they lost everthing that they had. Again these are only suggestions. Great job on the short paragraph and keep up the good work.
DeleteFor your story you can explain what it would be like to live during this time and you could show how much the dust bowl effected Americans.
DeleteHave you ever lost a family member that you loved dearly? On the RMS Titanic many people lost loved ones. The RMS Titanic was a huge ocean liner. This 46,000 ton Ship was thought to be unsinkable. But it wasn’t. There were too many smoke stacks. Also there weren't enough lifeboats on the because everyone thought it was unsinkable. There were about 3,500 people on the Titanic and more than 1,500 of those people died. The Titanic also had 16,000 horsepower and cranked out about 24 knots. 162 furnaces burned through 650 tons of coal a day. The sinking was tragic. Families were separated and killed. People drown and even died from hypothermia in the cold atlantic. The ship sunk from getting the side scraped up from an iceberg which exposed holes in, and flooded some rooms. The ship sunk in around three hours which was not enough time for rescue ships. The only people who lived were people who got on lifeboats and one man who drank so much alcohol that he was numbed long enough for the rescue ships to reach him. Two possible lessons that captains, children, and adults can learn from the Titanic is to try your best and to listen to people with authority and experience. This is because the Titanic was built out of weak Iron and because the captain Edward J Smith received but ignored many warnings of the iceberg.
ReplyDelete1. Your character should be a boy who loses his mommy.
Delete2. 3rd person would work well.
1. You should use the setting where the main character is before they board the ship
Delete2. I think you should write a short story to capture the Titanic as an event. You could also write about what happens to your main character after the event.
The Great Depression BY :Riley Grimm
ReplyDeleteIn a time of catastrophe, many lessons can be taught. The Great Depression was a catastrophe, that we learned many lessons from. The stock market crash of 1929 sent America into a wave of panic. Millions of people became unemployed and broke. By 1933, more than 13 million Americans were without job. With adults without work, they struggled to supply food and shelter for their families. When no one could make money for their families, high school and college students were forced to drop out to a make money to support their families. With high school and college students staying home to support their families, no one was out in the world learning. With no one learning, we couldn’t advance ourselves in technology or any other field of research. Some kids went on without any basic education, because no one had time to learn. The rich and the poor were divided, and it was obvious. Poor families struggled while rich families thrived. The poor went days without food or water. The rich dined and drank until dawn. Some of the rich tried to help the poor however they could but others chuckled and ignored them. If you were born to a rich family, you had it good. You could go to a private schools and occasionally summer camps. If you were born into a poor family, you had a very slim chance of getting any education at all. Our country became split into two. We need to learn how to stick together as a unit, a whole. The Great Depression lasted 16 long years because we decided to fend for ourselves and forget about others. In the future I think this will teach us to band together and solve massive problems.
Great Job, Riley! You might want to make your character into someone that either had to drop out of school to support their family OR someone that was lucky enough to stay in school and watch all their classmates drop out. This gives you a good chance to add lots of detail and figurative language. I would also do this in 1st person.
DeleteWhat you could do is have your character have to try to make money for their family. You could also try making your character rich and watch how everyone else is affected.
DeleteHave you ever wonder why we learn history in school. All those “boring” classes every year that teaches about American History, repeatedly! You know what I’m talking about- Social Studies!!! The effect this word has on us- ripples of shivers travelling through our bodies. Of course, for those of us who love social studies, it's a different story! The election of Andrew Jackson isn’t a historical event we’ve learned much about, but it’s very important. This period of history, for the first time, shows the rise of common man. This historical period shows the rise of a common man for the very first time. Common folk were so happy that they called this time period (the period of Andrew Jackson’s election) the “Age of Jackson”. Why? Well, all the presidents before Andrew Jackson were rich, and the presidency was basically handed down to them. On the other hand, Andrew Jackson's presidency was not like all the former president. . He had a tough childhood. Both of his parents died when he was very young, and Andrew was struggling to get a good education. His parents were immigrants, not even citizens. So, imagine- what would life be like for poor Andrew? With hardwork, and determination, Andrew went to law school in North Carolina. This teaches us that even if the times are rough on us, if we try hard enough, we can get what we want. Andrew Jackson did a great job teaching us that. After all, he was a president.
ReplyDeleteVibha, I think it would be very easy for you to incorporate allusions to Andrew Jackson's presidency. Also, for your character, I think you should have your character going through a very rough patch, possibly something similar to what Andrew Jackson went through, and they have no hope left before they find out about Jackson's rough childhood. Finding out about his story could encourage your character to do something good with their life.
DeleteVibha, your character could have to go through a large challenge, and they might keep going back to Andrew Jackson, thinking what would he do?
DeleteThe titanic was a gigantic beast of a ship that was held together with over 1 million rivets. The titanic took off on its maiden voyage in April but no one knew that the titanic would never be seen at new York. The titanic set sail with the title of unsinkable and everyone believed that until she sank killing 1500 people.The titanic is a good example of why you never should be too overconfident. Maybe if the white star line hadn’t been so confident in the titanic ,she would never have went through the field of icebergs and sank as a result.
ReplyDeleteNathan I think you can add more facts like about how the ship was built and how the ship sank but with more detail and when the ship sank.
DeleteNathan, I think first person would be the best for your story because it would explain the sinking of the titanic better through someone's eyes. Maybe your character could be one of the very few third class people who survived and the story could be based around them trying to move on with their life after he or she witnessed such a tragedy.
DeleteThe L.A Riots was a 6 day event that occurred on April 29 1992 in Southern Los Angeles. The main instigator for this riot was the verdict for the Rodney King incidents, in which a taxi driver named Rodney King was beaten and attacked by 4 L.A.P.D Officers after a high speed chase in early 1991. The ensuing trial happened almost a year later with 3 of the 4 officers ended up being acquitted on said charges ( by the fact that the jury was a highly bias one). The acquitting of the men was thought to be the spark for the riots.
ReplyDeleteThe violent crimes that were committed during this 6 day period stemmed from looting to violent beatings. By the end of the fifth day the California National Guard, The 7 infantry division and 1 Marine division had to be called to stop the carnage. In total 55 people were killed and over 2000 were injured.
Good! KC I think you should focus more on why these crimes where being comited and who. I also think that you should tell your story from a 3rd person perspective.
DeleteMy topic, is Yellow Fever, also called “The fever of 1793”. The first outbreak was in the early weeks of October, 1793. No one knew how to cure, treat, or stop it from spreading. This gave doctors during this time a chance to solve something, a chance to get their names in the history books. It was all hands on deck when the death rate jumped from 50 a day to 200 a day in just 2 short months. The outbreak was in Philadelphia, which was the nation's capital at the time. 10% of philadelphia's population died because of this disease. Half of those who didn’t die fled the area, and the other half stayed to help the sick. Doctors tried everything to get the sick healthy again, whether it be treating them like they had the flu, or cutting them open and filling their bodies with mercury. Eventually, a doctor named Walter Reed noticed that most of the patients he saw had mosquito filled homes. He assumed mosquitoes were the cause of the virus. With loads of research and even a test on himself which resulted in death, he proved his theory to be correct. His bravery proved to the world that diseases could be contracted from insects just as well as we can contract them from humans. Because of this event we have learned ways to prevent the spread of this virus, and even though there still is no cure, we have learned ways that aren't effective, along with ways to cure other diseases. Because of this event in history we learned one of many ways to keep our country safe and healthy. This event greatly impacted our past, present, and will improve our future. And as long as time goes on, we’ll just keep on learning and improving everyday.
ReplyDelete1: Maybe your character could be a doctor trying to find a solution.
Delete2:I suggest you write your story over the two months were the death rate went up to show how your character changes as more people die from yellow fever.
1 Maybe you could put more into setting
Delete2 maybe you could expand on the idea of insects transmitting diseases.
The lessons we learn from history are not “stupid” or “ineffectual” history has changed us now and forever so here is an example of how something from history made us learn a lesson that we will never forget, On April 11th 1912 the titanic started sailing the Atlantic, The titanic could carry about 2,435 passengers but with all the crew members on board there were 3,327 passengers on board. On April 15th 1912 the crew of the titanic spotted a huge iceberg. In a rush they turned the boat to the right in a swift motion in attempt to move the ship safely around the iceberg, but because of the late reaction to seeing the iceberg they hit the side of the large ship. The titanic had 16 watertight compartments which flooded due to the impact of the iceberg hitting the side of the ship. The captain Edward John Smith ordered only women and children go on the lifeboats so the loyal captain went down with his ship, The lifeboats could carry 1,178 women and children but the crew only put half of the lifeboats capacity which means they only put 589 passengers on the large lifeboats they had. It took roughly 2 hours and 40 minutes for the titanic to sink so by 2:20 AM on April 15th the Titanic hit the bottom of the sea in the Atlantic Ocean. A possible lesson that we can learn from this is that not everything that someone had planned doesn’t always work out the way you expected, the captain of the titanic didn’t really expect that the Titanic would sink but it did so not everything he had in mind went as planned.
ReplyDelete1. I suggest that you have two settings. One could be the Titanic itself, and the other could be your character's home town.
Delete2. You should use first person narration to express the personal feelings of your main character while he/she is witnessing the Titanic's sinking.
-You should use first person narration, it really would be cool to see the thoughts of your main character during this even and their perspective.
Delete-The falling action should be your character on a lifeboat or maybe even lost at sea.
Overall, the Titanic is a very interesting time period!
I think that you should do a first person story so you can bring out the fear and horrific traumas the character will go through that most people don't know about, and make sure to bring out the suffering they also go through so the reader can feel as if he/she is part of the story,this will help it come alive.
ReplyDeleteI think first or third person would work for this a a first person shows in depth one persons point of view but 3rd person gives many different ways to look at it.
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