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Your assignment:
Discover some thing, place, event, or person in your
own backyard that kids across the U.S. will want to know about.
The only catch: Your subject must be 50 years old or older!
This does not mean that if you are highlighting an individual
that he or she is 50 years of age or older but that they died
50 or more years ago. An event must take place prior to 1950!
In other words, your subject should have a lot of background
information!
Look for drama, tension, adventure, poetry, triumph, and
humor. It would great to incorporate all six but that’s
tough. Shoot for at least one or two.
Write “Notes” about your writing assignment–sort
of like journal entries.
Create/write a “rough” bibliography. Actually
talk to the people in charge of the places you visit for research.
Your bibliography should include primary sources (text and
photos), secondary sources, places to visit, and important
contacts. Please locate any experts who will be willing to
review your finished article or chapter. (To write the Great
American History/Historical Fiction article or book, it is
necessary to include (or “incorporate”) strong
quotations/anecdotes. Look for these in your research.)
Create/write a summary and “rough” outline.
Your article or chapter should be between 1000 to 1500 words.
Also, please make sure that they are easy to read (no coffee
stains and no poor handwriting), as we will be sending, each
of you, in advance the assignments to review and will refer
to them throughout the workshop.
Great luck and happy researching and writing!
Carolyn Yoder |
