Overview
Take a deep dive into the eras we’ve been discussing. Centuries ago, there was no Internet or social media. I want you to imagine what things might have looked like if there had been.
Adopt the character of a person from between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries and write up a blog post for them. Choose one of the following individuals to portray:
- A French nobleman living at Versailles under Louis XIV (c. 1700)
- A French commoner on the day that King Louis XVI was executed (January 21, 1793)
- A French soldier during Napoleon’s Hundred Days (March 20th – July 8th, 1815)
- An English factory worker at the time of the Factory Act (1833)
- A Prussian soldier on the day Wilhelm I was crowned Kaiser (January 18, 1871)
- A British journalist covering the Boer War (1899-1902)
- An American survivor of the sinking of the R.M.S. Lusitania (May 7, 1915)
- A Russian factory worker during the March Revolution (March, 1917)
- An British soldier on D-Day (June 6th, 1944)
- An East German during the fall of the Berlin Wall (November 9,1989)
If for some reason you wish to write on another historical event, please email me so we can discuss it.
Do some solid historical research on the event you’ve chosen.