If you could choose another time in history to visit, which time period would you choose? What country would you choose? What would you hope to discover?
Point-of-View Writing
Write a letter to a great-grandparent or another relative who lived in the past. Explain how life today is different from the way it was before.
Write a five-paragraph essay (or prepare an outline) describing the best time or the worst time (past, present, or future) to be alive and why.
Write a five-paragraph essay (or prepare an outline) explaining the reasons why you think we should study the past. Does the past teach us lessons for the future?
Thesis Statement: Creating Unity
The thesis statement of an essay creates unity
What is unity? An overarching idea.
A good thesis statement is supported by the other ideas, explanations, and examples in the introduction, body paragraph(s), and conclusion.