Overview
This prompt asks students to address a given question by writing an imaginative piece that tells about a significant person or historical event in the text.
Follow these steps to customize this historical narrative task:
- Review the steps in the handout "Plan for Write to the Source."
- Review the sample task and then fill in the task template fields below the sample task.
- Review the handout "Narrative Writing Rubric." Adapt as necessary.
Sample Task
Essential Question: Historically, how has collective action contributed to progress?
Text Title(s): Read “Investing in the Community."
Suggested Writing Product: Address the question by writing a piece of historical fiction that tells about the Million Man March.
Additional Task Demand: Write your narrative in third person, and incorporate information from the text into the storyline.