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Now that you have identified at least one historical moment, stories of a relative you interviewed, and a few artifacts, you are ready to propose some ideas for your Dramatic Monologue and IRP. The Dramatic Monologue is the creative way of bringing history alive by pretending you are some one from the past in your family and convincing your audience that they too can sense what it was like in that time and place. It can be a humorous, dreadful, everyday, or any story. In the Independent Research Paper, American Historical Context for Moving Voices, you will describe a historical moment as the context for your family story. You will look at how that time and place and people, including your family, interacted, caused change, and connected. The theme that helps you focus is movement: emigration, immigration, migration, social movements, and so on.
Write at least two paragraphs that describe your idea(s) for your Dramatic Monologue and your IRP. We want to see what you’re thinking, so you may describe more then one idea. Explain why you’re thinking of this. Remember the to tell who, what, when, where, why, and how as best as you can at this point. Insert questions that you still have. Try to connect the story that you will tell with a historical moment your interested in and to the theme of movement. This is for both American Literature and US History. Due Thursday 9/27 or 9/28