Women's+History

=Moment in History: A Writing Project =

==Write about an historic event — or a moment during an event — from the perspective of a famous woman who was there. You will read these fictional accounts to one another, and then they will be discussed within the classroom. ==


 * What was it like to be **Harriet Tubman** one night as she secretly led fugitive slaves through the deep South along the Underground Railroad?
 * What was it like to be **Marie Antoinette** as she was being led to the guillotine?
 * What was it like to be **Sally Ride** as she was about to lift off into orbit?
 * What was it like to be **Joan Benoit Samuelson** when she raced into the Los Angeles Coliseum in 1984, the leader of the first Olympic marathon for women in history?
 * What was it like to be **Joan of Arc** when she led the troops of France into battle against the British outside the city of Orleans?

Put yourself in the place of a well-known woman in history. Try to imagine what it was like to be her at an important moment in her life. Think about what she was feeling; think about what she was seeing and hearing. Think about what she said or did.

Now, write her story.