Research of an Emerging Market

Narrative Writing

For this paper, you are going to create a story based on one of the four era’s listed on the next slide. The setting of your story must take place in one of those eras. You will need to research the epoch in order to describe the setting. You need to be accurate and use references to describe the era. For example, if you discuss the plague symptoms, cite the reference you used to acquire that information. In addition, if your story takes place in the time of The fall of the Berlin Wall you can’t mention cell phones because they did not exist yet. You will need four sources for this paper and you will use MLA in-text and work cited page format. This should be the easiest paper from the last three.

Pick One

1.The Plague and the Middle Ages

2.Rome under Caligula

3.The Great Raid

4.The Fall of the Berlin Wall

Parameters

• The story needs to be 800-1000 words long.
• You need four resources and you must use MLA formatting.
• You can use only one film as a resource.
• The plot can be anything you like but it must take place during the era and you must refer to the time period through the story.

Rubric

		5	4	3	2	1	0
Word choice	25	25	20	18.75	15	12.5	0
Setting	35	35	28	26.25	21	17.5	0
Grammar	15	15	12	11.25	9	7.5	0
Citation	5	5	4	3.75	3	2.5	0
Work cited	5	5	4	3.75	3	2.5	0
Presentation	5	5	4	3.75	3	2.5	0
Organization	10	10	8	7.5	6	5	0
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