Right now, with the 9th graders, we are using a modified version of this lesson as our closing project. In the project, students are asked to view images from modern Iran, answer the question "How has modern Iran been affected by the events of the Iranian Revolution?", conduct research, and write a piece of historical fiction based on their research and their photograph.
Somehow, this has turned into just about the most complex piece of writing I've ever assigned. And it's the 9th graders' first writing assignment.
In it, we are...
1) conducting research (one of the first time I've actually done this in our technology-starved school)
2) incorporating details into historical narrative
3) writing and planning a historical short story (exposition, main character, dialogue, problem, climax, resolution) with accurate details
It's a crazy complicated assignment and I'm really wondering what this are going to produce on Monday when they're due.
I spent Sunday afternoon writing a piece of historical fiction based upon a Great Depression photograph, so I could show them a model. We'll see if that helps.
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