This lesson was developed by Denyse Wilson, Allison Lane, and Kit Thomas as a part of the Education Technology class at University of Maine. All pictures were taken from the American Memory Collection of the Library of Congress. We created this Webquest out of a desire to see history and language arts combined in an interesting manner. History lessons, we believe, are best served by challenging students to do something with their knowledge.
Fiction helps history come alive.
It is also important for students in the language arts classroom to see the process by which authors create historical fiction and to discover that they too can be authors of creative writing. Historic Hyperfiction is a Webquest that will take your students through a search for information about the Great Depression, about historical fiction and about hyperfiction. They will be asked to answer questions about the links they visited. The students will conclude this Webquest by contributing a character of their own to a migrant camp setting. Students may work independently or in groups.