Cross curricular assignments do double duty.

Historical events can be used as starting points for Creative Writing.

After genuine historical facts are studied — writers can ask “what if?”

and then create alternative histories and side stories. An excellent example of this is

the YA novel: The Name of the Star in which author Maureen Johnson creates a

fascinating, yet fictitious, paranormal story about London’s historic Jack-the-Ripper.

(By the way, our best wishes to Maureen who is convalescing at the moment,

I understand). http://maureenjohnsonbooks.tumblr.com/

Steampunk fiction authors often rewrite history inserting anachronistic devices.

An excellent Steampunk TV series is Murdoch Mysteries. A bit of history is often woven

into the plot. http://www.cbc.ca/murdochmysteries/about/

A great resource for Creative Writing Teachers is “This Day in History”

which is found here:

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/percy-bysshe-shelley-and-mary-wollstonecraft-godwin-wed?et_cid=68906251&et_rid=1179955491&linkid=http%3a%2f%2fwww.history.com%2fthis-day-in-history%2fpercy-bysshe-shelley-and-mary-wollstonecraft-godwin-wed

Your assignment for today: write some fiction which includes a bit of real history.