Anybody for some story ideas?

Question

Hey guys. I have this English assignment I could really use help for. We have to pick a topic and gather facts about it and basically do some research. And then once we have that write a short story using the facts. The facts will help us to have a base and make our story sure and strong. Now here's the problem. I just don't know what subject to pick. Anybody has any suggestions? Thanks a lot. I'll really appreciate it!

Answer 1

Do some research on the relocation of the Japanese Americans at the beginning of World War II, then write a story of that re-location from the viewpoint of a young elementary school student who is being relocated or from the viewpoint of a young Caucasian student whose best friend is being taken away from him/her. If you get ambitious, you could attack it from both sides alternating from one side to the other.

Good luck.

Answer 2

How about the Ten Plagues? Sorry if that is random, but I was watching Prince of Egypt yesterday.

So basically, I'm saying that you could make the story from an Egyptian person's point of view. You could tell what they went through at that time, since the Ten Plagues is a known topic.

Again, sorry if this suggestion is weird, but it could work for an English assignment!

Answer 3

look at a current events. so maybe newyorktimes.com or something. they'll spark an idea because you could use the events, the setting, etc from a current event and write a creative story out of it.  

Answer 4

try finding a culture that you are interested in and looking up a certain time period within that culture and writing about what your life would have been like, but with an iteraesting twist in the story so it doesn't just seem like a boring journal.

Answer 5

Write about a personal experience of one of your family members for example .

In this way you will feel more comfortable and you would not have to search that much and then you can write the story in your own words still keeping the reality .