Writing Prompts from History for Teens

Take your writing – and knowledge of history – a step further with these writing prompts from history.

1. You are a steelworker building the Empire State Building in New York City, New York. Describe a day on the job.
2. You are living in Oklahoma in 1935. Describe the dust storms that you face and share what your family does in response.
3. You are a member of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s church in 1935. Share the events of one day when you help Jews escape from Nazi Germany.
4. You are present in 1940 when the first successful helicopter flight in the United States is made. Write a news account of the event.
5. Your mom gives you a new type of cereal for breakfast—small circles made from oats. Do you like it? What is different about it? Do you think such a thing will ever catch on?

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