Talking With a Historical American

Students will continue to work on creating powerful paragraphs writing about meeting a historical American they admire (some kids picked some not-so-historical Americans BUT ok'd it with me first). This writing assignment has an opening paragraph that should mention their ROLE as a writer. Students are to pretend that an essay they wrote on their historical American won an essay writing contest and the prize is to attend an evening gala at the Kennedy Center of the Performing Arts and to meet their historical person (who is being honored). They are to write a dialogue between their historical person and themselves that discusses five similarities and three differences. Students will need to support the dialogue with facts. For example:

"Good evening Juliette Gordon Low! I am so excited to meet you! Since we both are deaf, would you prefer that we use sign language, or can you understand me ok?" Juliette G. Low lost her hearing as a young girl when she was very sick with ear infections just like me. She didn't let that slow her down as she went on to be the founder of Girl Scouts.

Students will need an introduction paragraph, a body with dialogue, and a concluding paragraph. The rough draft should be ready for peer review either Thursday or Friday depending on our schedule. The final draft will be typed up on google docs on Monday/Tuesday before camp and turned in as a hard copy.