Overview
You have built a time machine and have decided to give it a test run. The first set of travel destinations you will trek to are listed below. You will spend a few hours in each time, write down you observations. Write an entry in your journal for each of the stops you make. Since you will be seeing and observing a lot, each of your entries is a paragraph in length (minimum six full sentences), remember more is better. This is an exercise in creative, descriptive, immersive, and historical writing.
You have already learned about some of these historical periods from Power Points, your eBook, and handouts etc. You can include that information in your entries along with your own creative observations. The eBook, Power Points, Google (Images) will help you with information for your entries.
Your entry should be accurate, for example, in the 1920’s you are not going to notice jet airplanes flying overhead, or during the Gilded Age you are not driving your car to the factory since they have not been invented or were not readily available. In other words, keep it real and in context, but be descriptive. Most important write this in first person, the entries should not read like a book report. Remember, you are observing each location for a few hours, and in that time what would you witness; This should not read like a book report. If you were there, in that place, at that time, for a day, what would you see, smell, hear, or feel as a witness to that place and time?
Your time machine stops for a few hours in each of the following locations:
- Reconstruction Era – Charleston, South Carolina, a day in the 1870’s
- Massachusetts Textile factory during the Gilded Age – a day in the factory during the 1880s
- World War I U.S. – 1918 United States' Trenches in France
- June 4, 1919 – U.S. Congress (clue: look up the significance of this date in U.S. history)
- Chicago – any day in the 1920s
- New York – any day in the 1930s during the Great Depression
- World War II Homefront – any day, anywhere in the United States during the war
- Little Rock, AR – September 4, 1957 (clue: look up the significance of this date in U.S. history)
Format: Your journal entries should be typed in 12 font, double spaced, Times New Roman. Each entry should be titled with the destination. All eight of your journal entries will be submitted at the same time here after being saved in a WORD document or PDF on or before the due date. Do not use AI, ChatGPT, Grammarly, no AI generating program or grammar checking program, etc. If your paper shows any AI usage or plagiarism you will receive a zero with no opportunity to re-write the paper for points.
Worth: 100 points (each entry is worth 12.5 points)
Example: My example is from History 1301 (your destinations are listed above, History 1302).
War of 1812 Washington D.C. (put the title of every entry at the top in bold font, like this)
I have only been in the city for a few minutes, and I can already hear the approaching British troops. Their boots march along the cobble streets, they are near. I occasionally see the residents peeking out of their windows, waiting to see the enemy and then scurry to their hiding places in their homes. There is a faint smell of smoke in gun powder in the air, some government buildings have already been lost to the flames. I can now see them in the distance, the troops red coats are hard to make out, but they march in perfect formation. There they are the most powerful army in the world, they number in the hundreds, a frightening sight; They are marching in the direction of the President’s House, it will burn tonight