Historical Fiction

Today in the lab, you're going to determine the time and place of your setting.
Specifically, you must

• Choose a decade between 1800-1970
• Choose a town, city, or specific area in any of the fifty states

As you work, you'll need to take notes on various aspects of the time and place you're writing in. Such as

• Major historical events taking place in the decade
• Information about people's daily lives in the decade (Were there telephones? Were women citizens?
• Sub-cultures--a group having social, economic, ethnic, or other traits distinctive enough to distinguish it from others within the same culture or society.
• How particular people in the decade and place behaved--Were women able to vote? Was it normal for a child to defy a parent?
• The geographic information about the town/city your characters will live in
• The way people in this time and place earned money

Use the links below to help you get started. Be sure all sites you use are reliable and collect bibliographic information as you work. All sites must be cited.

TIME
Animated Atlas --Timeline by Animated Atlas
American History Timeline--Smithsonian
American Memory Timeline--Library of Congress

PLACE
Fifty States--Information about each state
Interactive Map--Brief information on states
50 States--Unbelievably long list of links to information in each state

Remember: We have Britannica Online and other useful sources avaliable!

HW: Begin reading either "Cathedral" or "To Room Nineteen"