Honors Research Paper

Historical Narrative Research Project (Fall-October/November)

Assignment: Prepare a imaginary first-person account of an event in history.

• Use 10 facts found during research
• must be an account of a person who would have been there during event but cannot be a specific famous person
• tells a story of the event or part of the event
• facts will enhance and support story
• 1-3 pages

Suggestions:

• School shooting in Columbine High School
• Attack on 9/11
• Hurricane Katrina
• Assassination of Abe Lincoln
• Apollo 11
• Signing of the Declaration of Independence
• Salem Witch Trials
• Hindenburg Disaster
• Pearl Harbor
• Landing on Plymouth Rock
• Murder of the Black Dahlia
• Woodstock
• Great Depression
• Nixon's Watergate Scandal
• Battle of Gettysburg
• Kent State University Shooting
• Bombing of Oklahoma Building
• Boston Tea Party
• Boston Massacre
• Gold Rush
• Dust Bowl
• Launching of Sputnik
• Jerry Sandusky Case
• Space Shuttle Challenger Accident
• 1st World Series

Objective: teaches students how to properly conduct research and use facts found to support writing.

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