Take your writing – and knowledge of history – a step further with these writing prompts from history.
- You are living in Oklahoma in 1935. Describe the dust storms that you face and share what your family does in response.
- 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.
- You are present in 1940 when the first successful helicopter flight in the United States is made. Write a news account of the event.
- 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?
- You walk into Gimbels Department Store in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at Christmastime. A man by the name of Richard James is demonstrating a toy that looks like a metal spring that can “walk” down stairs. What is this new toy, and how do you react? Do you buy one? If not, why not? If so, do you give it as a gift? How does the recipient react?
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