Question

Local Historians

• Ask students to collect stories about their town from older people.
• Ask them to find out how the streets were named.
• Are there any interesting people or legends to which the street names refer?
• Are there any local places in town about which people tell stories?
• Any haunted houses?
• Let students find out when the town was founded and by whom.
• Visit a local historical society to see old photographs or artifacts.

Let students create an original historical fiction:

Describe the town from the point of view of a fictitious citizen who might have lived in the town long ago. Include local issues of the time in the story. Write the story of the town from the fictionalized point of view of a resident who actually lived.

Answer 1

Do it yourself.