In one paragraph, you will summarize the historical
time period or event that you have researched so far. In your paragraph, be sure to include:
● at least two specific details from your notes to help you
summarize the historical time period or event,
● a lesson that you think can be
learned from the historical time period or event and applied to the future, one that is supported by
the two details you include, and
● proper spelling, punctuation and
grammar.
The Titanic was a treacherous event which killed over 1,500 people but there are also some valuable lessons that the Titanic brought to light for us. When the Titanic sank on april 15th the lesson started to emerge that we should be prepared for the worst and not expect anything less. The Titanic's first problem was the lifeboats, the fact that they did not have enough lifeboats to provide for everyone on the ship put them in a situation where they were not prepared for when the ship sank. Another major safety factor was the fact that the radio told them about the icebergs but they ignored it and by the time they saw the iceberg it was too late. This applies very much to life today. Take covid for example covid came out and no one was prepared for how bad covid was going to get which led to millions of people's deaths.
ReplyDeleteIn your paragraph you mention how there wasn't enough lifeboats. I suggest you branch off of that and make your main conflict survival.
DeleteI think your main conflict should be about a person that survives the titanic and has Trhama
DeleteYour character should be about a boy thats survived the titanic but has tramua of the titanic hittig the ice burg and people dying
DeleteI suggest your character should be someone who would have their physically be impacted by it sinking maybe the character is covered in water. The character should talk about how they are scared of the ship sinking and talk about how your character is shaking from the water. Your character could be crying because they are scared and be a regular passenger on the boat.
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ReplyDeleteIwo Jima is a tiny island in the middle Pacific Ocean. During WWII, a battle took place between the American and Japanese militaries on the island. The Americans thought that Iwo Jima would be a strategic place to capture. The Americans wanted the island because they could launch bombs from there. During a 5-week battle, there were lots of casualties. 7,000 American Marines, and 21,000 Japanese were massacred. From Iwo Jima, we can learn that those going to war need to consider how many casualties may be too many and whether it’s worth it.
I think a good conflict for this is a solder who's fighting for the US or the Japanese
DeleteI think that a good conflict would be an American soldier fighting, and in the middle of it, he/she realizes all of the casualties they've caused.
DeleteI think a conflict for your story is the point of view of a soldier, or the point of view of a commander in chief giving orders back in whatever country he's in.
DeleteWhen they are in a battle you should have the soldier have something that realise what they did
DeleteYou should have a scared young boy who was drafted in the war and the mad general is yelling at him to keep moving but he is to scared to be there
DeleteThe character should have a cap with a U.S. Army emblem on a dark gray cap. They should also have ranking pins for the military to show their rank. Two big, brown pockets on a large, brown overcoat with a golden belt buckle at the waist.
DeleteThe Tri-State Tornado was a tornado that traveled two-hundred and nineteen miles, killed six-hundred ninety-five people, and left over two thousand injured. One of the huge reasons why this tornado reined so freely like a mass murderer on the loose was because of meteorologists. In 1925, the word ‘tornado’ was banned in American forecasts due to concern that people would be terrified. Because of that reason, the giant funnel cloud was unseen in the line of weather for the day, which resulted in over six hundred people dead by the end of that afternoon. Ignorance of small things might lead up to great consequences.
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DeleteI believe your main conflict is the fact that this tornado was so bad that the word ¨tornado ¨ is banned
DeleteI think that your main conflict should be about a young family who gets hit by the Tri-State Tornado and survives.
DeleteI think your conflict should be a reporter or a weather person giving emergency news to the people.
DeleteI think you should have a worried mom as a character. The mom is home with 2 young children and the father is at work.
DeleteYour main character should be a troublemaking boy who doesn't listen and talks back who learns to behave over the story.
DeleteThe people of Salem were extremely religious people who taught their children about the devil, witchcraft, and such. Because of this, it isn’t very surprising that when two young girls fell ill, they immediately blamed it on witches and wizards. Overall, 20 people were killed after being accused of witchcraft and many more imprisoned. When people react quickly and irrationally, others get hurt for no reason at all.
ReplyDeleteWhat I think you should do is have a charecter who was in the trail
DeleteYou could do your based off someone who was accused of witch but escaped and is on the run and is getting hunted
DeleteOne thing that a lot of people don’t understand is that just because something is labeled as “the best” or “indestructible”, doesn’t mean that you should push the capabilities. One example to support this claim is the tragic, sinking of the Titanic in 1912. The Titanic was known as “the unsinkable ship” and was the absolute best of its time. Unfortunately, during the Titanic's voyage from England to New York, the Titanic struck an iceberg late at night and sunk. The reason that the Titanic is a prime example of this claim is that the captain, Edward John Smith overestimated the unsinkability of the ship and ran the ship at a higher speed than advised for that section of water, even while knowing that there were icebergs in that water. The Titanic also left with not enough lifeboats to hold all of the passengers aboard because people thought it was unsinkable. This is only one example of someone overestimating something because it is labeled, “the best”.
ReplyDeleteI think a possible main conflict for this topic could be overestimating.
DeleteYour main conflict could be surviving the sinking.
DeleteA main conflict for this is overestimating and the Captain underestimating the icebergs.
DeleteI think your character could be working with the captain and could also overestimate the titanic. Since it was over 100 years ago they would be a male and would be old like 45 or older.
DeleteI think you should have the main character be on the titanic and make them try to stop the captain but it doesn't work.
DeleteThe Berlin wall was built on August 16th 1961 by the German Democratic Republic. It was built to split East and West Germany. It was made of barbed wire and concrete. On November 9th in 1989, the citizens of Germany had a major protest( They did not want the wall anymore because five days after 1,000,000 in a half = (500,000 ) people gathered in East Berlin in a mass protest.)The reason for protesting was that they did not want the wall built anymore and they wanted to be reunited with the country. This means they wanted people to be able to travel to other places to see other countries, states, cities, and other people. A good lesson that they learned is that when they are not divided, people can travel more or as long as they want so they do not have to be stuck in Germany.
ReplyDeleteYour main conflict could be about a teenage boy 16-17, who goes to the protests and is protesting his thoughts.
DeleteI like the idea of unison but I think in other places it's getting repetitive. Like the "They did not want the wall anymore because" it was repeated twice I think you can get rid of it.
DeleteThe main conflict can be that there is a protest group and they have to fight the goverment in secret.
DeleteThe main character could be from a strict family and has to do everything they want and never does anything against them. But disobeys them and goes to protest.
DeleteIn 1916 there were 5 shark attacks that happened from July 1 to July 12. In beach haven NJ and Matawan creek a shark, known as the “jersey man-eater”, was killing people left and right. This is very unusual because it’s more likely that you are killed by a car than a shark. This time period marks the beginning of climate change. Sharks regulate their body heat based on the water temperature, so as time went on the water temperature of the ocean had gotten warmer. The main part that hasn’t changed is the water temperature is close to the shore, this is why sharks have started moving closer to the shore. The “jersey man-eater” was identified as a 7 ½ foot long great white shark.
ReplyDeleteThe main character trying to survive/kill the shark while boating or kayaking.
Deletethe main conflict maybe the deaths on the beach
Deleteyour charectar should have some emotion like if your friend got eaten by the shark
DeleteI suggest the character to be a young adult, more quiet (doesn't talk that much), stubborn, happy/neutral most of the time.
DeleteThe assassination of Archduke Franz and his wife in 1914 kicked off the first-ever World War. This war was a fight for power and control which even turned the sea into a battleground. Because of this battle, Hiram Maxim built Britain's finest defense, the machine gun. Gavrilo Princip did not care how many families would suffer or how many people would die when he killed Archduke and his wife; all he cared about was overthrowing Austro-Hungarian control. This war teaches us to always think before acting, and we should always consider how our actions may affect others, not just ourselves.
ReplyDeleteyour main conflict maybe people just kill and do bad stuff just for power or to be a higher rank than someone
DeleteYou could be, you are a relative of Archduke and have to survive and go through the hate for being blood related to Archduke Franz
DeleteYou should show the point of view of a character who has to go through the deaths of Archduke Franz and his wife in 1914.
DeleteOn the night of December 16, 1773, 60 men dressed up as Mohawk indians, got into a boat and dumped €18,000 worth of tea into the Boston Harbour. Why? They were protesting British taxation without representation. The colonists were fed up with the control that the british constantly had over them. Taxations on tea, sugar, and imported goods made them angry. So they decided to protest and take a stand. Their missing 342 chests of tea made the british livid, and it could have been avoided. A lesson we could all apply to today's life is that you cannot take control of others and expect them to stay quiet. If you feel that something is wrong, you should stand up for yourself.
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DeleteA possible main conflict is the things between the Colonists and the British.
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DeleteThe main character fighting the British.
DeleteYour main conflict could be the main character being hard to wear down to join the rebels to throw the tea over board.
DeleteI suggest that maybe you should make the main character go through fighting the British and how that will go.
DeleteThe Iranian embassy siege happened in 1980 from April 30 to the fifth of May in London. It was a hostage situation between six Arabian men and the SAS (British Special Air Service). the men believed the Arab Authority was being suppressed and so took hostages in the building to use as leverage. the result of this violence left two hostages and five arab men dead. There is a lesson that can be forged from the six days. Violence is and will never be the answer; it harms both sides and the bystanders who had nothing to do with it.
ReplyDeleteFor this event you could base it off being a hostage that survived after the fact and it could be a journey to recover from the trauma you got that day.
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Deleteyou could make it about the hostages hiding from the men? im not sure
Deleteyour main character could have a lot of hallucinations about another event happening and lots of panic attacks and mental break downs
DeleteSeptember 11 2001. 2 planes slammed into the Twin Towers based in New York. The Terrorist group Al Qaeda. Planned and directed the attacks towards America. 4 planes would be hijacked and hit their targets. 2 planes hit the Twin Towers. The 3rd was thought to be directed toward many different places but crashed into a field. The fourth crashed into the pentagon. The attacks amounted in a large loss of life. 2,996 were listed as dead. And up to 25,000 injured. A lesson I think can we learn from this is always be ready for the unexpected. Even if its a routine that you’ve gone through everyday. The unexpected can still occur.
ReplyDeleteA police officer that dies on 9/11 and the effect on his community and family.
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DeleteGood job on the important detail like saying the group name of the people that hijacked all of the planes that caused 9/11. The conflict/ lesson was always expect the unexpected.
DeleteWhat I think you should do is have a kid who saw 9/11
DeleteI think that for this the main conflict could be, how the twin towers killed so many people.
DeleteI suggest that you make your character a teenager that had just found out that his/her mom/dad are dead from 9/11
DeleteYour main character can be an elderly police officer who thought about skipping work to attend his daughter's engagement but there was a big robbery and he felt like he had to go.
DeleteI suggest for your character you have a family member of someone that died in 9/11, and you show how the attack impacted their life.
Deleteit should have peoples behavoir on the ground or on the plane
DeleteWhat I think you should do for a character is that they were affected by 9/11
DeleteThe Spanish Influenza pandemic, overshadowed by the first world war, created economic crises and social unrest. Because of the novelty of the deadly, contagious influenza A virus, no medications were able to prevent or dull the effects of contracting the virus, leading to a horrible pandemic: the “purple plague.” The priority of the time was mainly WWI, whether that be sending nearly all doctors out to war, leaving only some to attempt to treat the influx of those infected. A lesson that can be learned from this pandemic is, although other things may be of importance, helping your people takes priority, no matter what.
ReplyDeleteThe main conflict can be that people are trying to help each others but all of their resources are taken away for war.
Deleteyour main conflict maybe the deaths or impact on the world
DeleteThe main character can be a young lady with a kind heart who sees her family and friends suffering ,and she tries to help people even though she has few resources.
DeleteEarly in the morning all you could hear was the trees swaying and the cold wind howling. It was so quiet all the men lay asleep except for a few guards no one expected they were about to be bombarded. This was the battle of the bulge during WWII 1944 december through january 1945. It was the Germans trying to split the allied front in half. It was the spouse to take the Americans by surprise and they did. They went right through the front with 200,000 German troops and 1,000 tanks.It made a bit of a bulge into the amrican line and they were stopped by 101 airborne division. They pushed the Germans back to the front. This teaches us to never let our guard down or bad things happen.
ReplyDeleteI like how you went into detail when the germans tried to take the americans by suprise.
DeleteI suggest that you make your main conflict would be how the americans let their guard down and let them get pass.
DeleteOne of your characters should be someone who was in the American line.
DeleteChernobyl was a very large power plant in Russia that blew up. It happened at one o'clock in the morning. It was a disaster that they weren't ready so everybody in the area died. It was because they weren't ready to escape and suffered from radiation poisoning. So it is always good to be prepared and that was why it blew up so it could've been prevented.
ReplyDeletethe main conflict could be about someone who was driving out of that area to go somewhere important but didn't make it out of the area in time to survivor the power plant.
DeleteThe main conflict was that the Russians were not ready when one of their power plants blew up and that it could have been prevented.
Deletemaybe one of your characters could be someone who knew someone who died in the explosion.
Deletethere could be a man that likes to wear baseball hats and is a very happy person over all but he was out of town for a while hanging out with some friends and then came home to see his wife and daughter dead...(its kinda had to do because I don't know the time period )
DeleteThe Salem Witch Trial was a period in time when 174 people were accused of being a witch in Salem village. Most people who had been accused were only accused because they had been different or not religious. Salem village was home to the Puritans which was a very religious group, and anyone that didn’t do things such as attending church or believing the things the Puritans believed in would be a witch. From the Salem Witch Trials, you could learn that just because people someone is different or doesn’t believe the same things you believe doesn’t mean they are bad or a “witch”.
ReplyDeleteGriefing of a loved one being taken away by the witch trials? Someone watching the first trial in fear? A family member visiting a graveyard filled of victims of the witch trials
DeleteI think you should show it from the victims point of view, showing their emotion going through being accused of being a witch. Characters have to survive being hated on by other people.
Deleteyou could do this by the victims parents person of view and they are really upset that people could think their child is a witch.
DeleteHeres a idea for a character someone who is aganist the witch trials and dr.griggs(the main doctor during the witch trials) and attempts to assassinate him after the death of a loved one?
DeleteI think a good character idea would be someone who tries to stand up for themselves and has pride in what they believe.
DeleteEvery four years sports teams come together for the winter Olympics. On February 22, 1980 the U.S had beat the Soviet Union ending their gold medal streak. The Soviet Union had hugged the gold since 1964 which ended in 1980. The game took place in Lake Placid, New York. It was a huge downturn for the Soviet Union since they had taken the name of “being the best.” Many peers had doubts regarding the U.S overtaking the Soviet Union since their team had been made up of a bunch of college boys. But, though many had sided with the Soviet Union the U.S coach wasn’t letting the assumptions get to him. He had pushed his team and gave them talks reminding them that though they may be a bunch of college boys they are capable of anything no matter how many others have doubts.
ReplyDeleteI think that it would be good to show a character expressing their emotion during the game, and how they felt after the game. The conflict would be the team being low on points at the end of the game, knowing that they wouldn't win.
DeleteMariam, maybe you could write from the perspective of one of the athletes. Doing so may be a good way of showing all the conflict the players had to face, and get past to win the gold.
DeleteYour main conflict should be about a person that on the U.S olympic team that overtakes the Sovient union and gets the gold medal
DeleteYou should do it from a character who has worked really hard, and is upset to lose the Olympics.
DeleteThe Mau Mau was a rebellion against the British that began in the 1950s and ended in the 1960s. This rebellion began because of poverty, lack of political representation for Africans, and losing their land to white settlers. Most of the people enrolled in the Mau Mau were Kikuyu. During this time if you were found to support the British even as an African you would be killed immediately. Counter gangs would impersonate the Mau Mau to obtain information. The Mau Mau rebellion ended up hastening Kenya's independence as Kenya gained independence in 1963. President Kenyatta was imprisoned he was thought to be leading the Mau Mau. After gaining independence Kenyans were put in concentration camps and were massacred, In the end, the total death count after the Mau Mau rebellion was 12,090 people killed. The lesson learned from the period is that when we people are suppressed they will rebel, and detail supporting this would be “This rebellion began because of poverty, lack of political representation for Africans, and losing their land to white settlers.”
ReplyDeleteI think that a possible main conflict for your story could be someone that got out of a concentration camp and trying to deal with past memories and/or trauma.
DeleteYour main character could escape the concentration camp and try to get out of the country.
DeleteYou should have a person in the rebilon
DeleteI think your character should be a guy with short jet-black hair and brown skin. They should have a dark plaid blazer with light plaid pants. Under the blazer should be a white dress shirt. They should be wearing plaid socks that are lighter than the pants and blazer. Finally, they should be wearing high heel dress shoes.
DeleteWhen the Titanic sank they didn’t have enough lifeboats to save everyone; they weren’t prepared for the humongous boat to sink because they were worried about the look of the boat instead of the what-ifs. The Titanic only had 20 lifeboats which could only save 1,178 out of 2,229 people on the ship. Around 1,500 lives were lost in the sinking because they couldn’t fit all of the passengers on the lifeboats. The architects wanted the ship to look good instead of being worried about the what-ifs. In conclusion, you should always be prepared for the unexpected.
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DeleteI think a main conflict for your story could be survival.
DeleteKeeley, you mentioned the fact that the Titanic didn´t have enough life boats; maybe you could write from a point of view of a survivor who did get on one of those lifeboats. Maybe share some of the guilt they felt leaving all those who died behind?
DeleteI think that a main conflict should be one of the passengers who left their family behind on the Titanic and got into a lifeboat.
DeleteLooking back on my earlier thought, one of your characters could be a sibling being separated from their sibling. This would give you a good opportunity to show a ton of emotion. (especially sad emotion)
DeleteThe space race started when both the Soviet Union and the US wanted to prove they're the superior country. The Soviet Union was the first to space with Sputnik. The US didn't want to be left behind, so they made NASA and started working on something that could go to space. They made Vostok 1 and then Vostok 1 but improved. Project Apollo was made and said they'd be on the moon by the end of the decade.They were set back by an Apollo test launched which killed 3 astronauts. In the end the US effectively won the space race by landing on the moon. Competition isn't all about being competitive. Sometimes it is about collaborating and helping each other instead of going against each other.
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DeleteI think the main conflict could be something like the about competition of the space race and also about how stressful it was to show which of them is better.
DeleteI think the main conflict should be an engineer who warns NASA that the rocket isn't ready yet but they launch it anyways.
DeleteI think the main conflict should be quality over quantity from the 3 people who were killed
DeleteI think that one of the characters could be really loud and angry.
DeleteA NASA engineer who is shy and does not want them to launch the rocket into space because they never where able to finish the calculations.
DeleteWomen in Afghanistan have been treated extremely unfairly by the Taliban for several years now. They have been abused and stripped of their right to education very often. One of the lessons taught from the Taliban rule that had lasted from 1996-2001 is that people should not sit back and wait when bad things start to happen; they should take action. Over the course of a few years, the Taliban took over different parts of Afghanistan, picking them off. The Taliban had taken over Kandahar, a city in Afghanistan, in 1994. The attack on 9/11 did not happen until 2001. The Taliban had been a threat for many years, so we should have acted on them sooner before many lives were lost.
ReplyDeleteI feel I cannot figure out if your main conflict is about terrorism or rights. I think that you should look at rights more deeply because it's something that everyone should have.
DeleteThe main conflict about your story should be about a afghanistan girl that gets abused but takes action.
DeleteI think the main conflict is that women in Afghanistan are trated very unfair.
DeleteYou should have a girl who had been denied the rights to go to school ,and maybe have a little something with her being sassy that she can't go to school but she is smart.
DeleteOne character should be a girl named Mahima. Her apperance should be Long black hair, Short sleeved shirt, and Long pants. She should be very formal when it comes to speaking (Diolauge). Her behaveior should be nice. Her emitons should be happy but Depressed
DeleteThe Great Depression was a harsh worldwide economic lowness between 1929 and 1939 that began after a considerable fall in stock prices in the U.S. The severe economic crisis spread around September 4, 1929, and became known worldwide as Black Tuesday, the stock market crash of October 29,1929. The lesson learned is don't put all your eggs in one basket. You never know when there can be a downturn in the economy. Some things to prepare you are savoring and appreciating things, not going into debt,growing your own foods, canning your own foods and buying things that last.
ReplyDeleteIn conclusion, while you can’t predict economic downturns, you can be prepared.
Your main conflict could be fear what I mean by that is that your character could be a farmer who could have his land taken.
DeleteThere was a lot of teanagers who dropped out of school during the great depression you could do the experience of a teen surviving and finding there way
DeleteYour character could be a farmer that is in severe debt.
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ReplyDeleteThere was a time period where the school you went to was decided by the color of your skin. It was known to be “Separate but equal.” In reality, you could tell that was not the truth. Ruby Bridges was a six-year-old girl who was chosen to seek better education by integrating an all-white school. She was excited more than ever to go to William Frante Elementary School, and did not understand why her parents feared her safety. As Ruby and her mother were escorted only a few blocks away from Ruby’s home to her new school she had realized why. Riots of people from all age groups there to protest against Ruby. Protesters held signs with such remarks as, “We don’t want integration.” or screamed such violent slurs; the worst thing Ruby had experienced was seeing a woman hold a baby doll of color in a coffin. Not one remark made changed Ruby's confidence because she walked into her school everyday knowing that her presence was not welcomed. Ruby did not only deal with horrible treatment outside of school, because inside her classroom she was all alone. Ruby’s classmates shunned her completely, and that left her only friend to be her teacher. Ruby ate lunch with her teacher, she played with her teacher at recess, and there were even days the only two people to show up were Ruby and her teacher. They knew they could not miss a day of school because most importantly they needed each other. Ruby continued to show up everyday while the other kids were dropping out of the school, and she continued to walk past the angry riots day after day. Ruby Bridges persevered for her education, but not knowing she was changing history for us children and adults today.
I think your main character based of my suggestion could always think they aren't doing enough to help rose and is always going above and beyond for rose
Deleteyou could do the experience of her teacher and the troubles they went through to help ruby
DeleteThe main conflict could be how it affected their education.
DeleteWhat I think you should do is what was her life in her school
ReplyDeleteYour main conflict could be the main character being targeted and bullied for being black.
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ReplyDeleteYour main character could be one of ruby's bodyguards that defends her from the people who want to hurt her.
ReplyDeleteTet offensive was attack staged North offensive forces beginning in the early hours of January,1968 during Vietnam war.he Tet Offensive consisted of simultaneous attacks by some 85,000 troops under the direction of the North Vietnamese government.What happened in the Saigon attack was that their forces had to collapse under the rapid advancement of the North Vietnamese.If the North Vietnamese violated peace treaty they army felt emboldened to launch the major offensive in March 1975. The viet cong were guerrilla attacks the U.S Embassy in saigon.The soldier were held for hours six until an assault forces of U.S paratroopers.The tet offensive was planned as a massive,simultaneous attack on the major cities and provincial capitals of the south vietnam.
ReplyDeleteMy story takes place in 1620 on the Mayflower and follows an English man named William; trying to persevere through the tough storms, diseases, and threats that might make the Mayflower need to turn around or worse, SINK. It's a story about trying to get to Promised Land.
ReplyDeletefun fact #1 The Mayflower carried 102 people, 103 in this story.
The main idea of the story is that things are never what they seem or as easy or hard as you think they might be.