tailieunhanh - Express yourself part 11

You may now consider transcribing your social studies notes into stories to help you remember details. After you have written your story, go back to the rubric and see how well you did. Here are some sample activities to get you started: 1. Write an account of a day in the life of a Confederate soldier after the Battle of Antietam. Be sure to include details about his food, uniform, and spirit. Include dates and important battle sites and names of generals. 2. Write up your notes about President Truman’s dilemma to bomb Japan to end World War II as. | You may now consider transcribing your social studies notes into stories to help you remember details. After you have written your story go back to the rubric and see how well you did. Here are some sample activities to get you started 1. Write an account of a day in the life of a Confederate soldier after the Battle of Antietam. Be sure to include details about his food uniform and spirit. Include dates and important battle sites and names of generals. 2. Write up your notes about President Truman s dilemma to bomb Japan to end World War II as if you were the President writing in his diary. Be sure to include two reasons why he was sure he was right and two reasons why he thought he might be wrong. Include dates and names of famous people who were part of Truman s cabinet. 3. Become a spectator at President John F. Kennedy s funeral procession and relate the sights sounds and conversations you hear. Be sure to talk about the speculations surrounding his assassination and include reference to the vice president who succeeded him. 4. Recreate a day in the life of a child working in a factory in Great Britain during the Industrial Revolution. Be sure to include details of his entire day from rising in the morning to going to bed at night. Give dates as a reference include the name of a specific city and name a specific item of manufacture. 5. Describe the farm life of a Chinese peasant. Include details of his housing farming tools crops and general working and living conditions. Include location and even the names of Chinese officials. Even though you might not be assigned these writing topics you should still consider making them part of your independent study program. You could also ask your teacher for help in identifying what a good narrative prompt would be. Often students complain that they just don t understand something and they simply give up when all the while they have the tools at their disposal to make new ideas meaningful to them. Writing stories is one