Historical Fiction Planning

 

#1 Directions: Write about a time period in history as if you are a person living in that time. Choose one of the following people and era's from below. Be sure to write about the Setting and Characters in the first paragraph of your story in order to set the scene.

Choose from the list below!

 

 

American Indian living  in the Desert Southwest Before the Explorers (before 1492)

Christopher Columbus or crew member on his ship when exploring American 1492

 

Farmer in the Jamestown English Settlement Colonization 1607

 

Slave From Africa, Trying to escape the Plantation. 1607

 

 A  Major serving under George Washington and the French and Indian War 1754-1763

 

Colonist involved in the Boston Tea Party-American Revolution 1773

 

Soldier fighting in the American Revolution at Valley Forge 1777

 

One of the Farmers of the United States Constitution 1787

 

 

 

#2 Choose 2 characters using realistic names. Be sure to use adjectives to describe your good and bad characters, and think about what the characters do in the narrative you write.

 

 

 

 

#3 In the middle of you narrative write about the Conflict or problem you are faced with and have to solve.

 

 

4# How did you solve the problem and solve the conflict?

 

#5 You can tell the narrative in the First person as if the main character is telling the story. (I ,me)Or you can write the story in the third person as if a narrator knows about everything that has happened and is Telling the story to others (He, She, They)

 

 

Research Links to Help You

 

Of General Interest

 

 

American Indian-before 1492

http://www.historycentral.com/Indians/Before.html

http://www.insideoutsidemag.com/issues/2006/April_May/1491_New_Revelations_of_the_Americas_Before_Columbus/

 

http://www.theusaonline.com/history/colonial-times.htm

Christopher Columbus

 

http://latinamericanhistory.about.com/od/latinamericatheconquest/p/Columbusfirst.htm

 

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/columbus.htm

 

http://www.christopher-columbus.eu/voyage-1.htm‎

 

Jamestown Settlement

http://www.historyisfun.org/history-jamestown.htm

http://www.apva.org/history/

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/jamestown-founded

 

Slave from Africa

 

http://www.colonialwilliamsburg.com/discover/

 

http://americanabolitionist.liberalarts.iupui.edu/plantation_life.htm

 

http://www.apstudynotes.org/us-history/outlines/chapter-4-american-life-in-the-seventeenth-century-1607-1692/

http://afroamhistory.about.com/od/slavery/a/How-Did-Slaves-Resist-Slavery.htm

 

http://pathways.thinkport.org/about/about12.cfm

 

 

 

French and Indian War

 

http://www.mountvernon.org/frenchindianwar/10facts

http://www.shmoop.com/george-washington/french-indian-war.html

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-blood-of-the-french-and-indian-war

 

 

Boston Tea Party

 

http://www.watertown.k12.ma.us/cunniff/americanhistorycentral/07differencesdivide/The_Boston_Tea.html

 

http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/americanrevolution/p/American-Revolution-Boston-Tea-Party.htm

 

http://us-history.com/what-happened-at-the-boston-tea-party/

 

 

 

Framers of the Constitution

http://www.democracyjournal.org/21/the-framers-constitution.php

 

http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_founding_fathers.html

 

http://www.tikkun.org/nextgen/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/The-U.S.-Constitution-and-the-Intent-of-the-Framers.pdf

 

 

 

 

The above links are just a start. Remember there is much more out there. !