History

Your assignment is to imagine that you are living during one of the time periods we are studying   during the semester, and also that you are a close friend/relative/associate of a historical figure. You   can choose to be one of the following:   A close friend of Socrates   A Macedonian soldier traveling with Alexander the Great   Cleopatra’s best friend   A Senator living during Emperor Nero’s reign   Clotilde, the second wife of King Clovis   One of Charlemagne’s daughters  You will write a series of diary entries (4-6 entries in all) in the first-person in which you reflect upon  your friend/relative/associate. Your diary entries should discuss, but not necessarily be limited to the   following:   The political situation surrounding the friend/relative/associate    How your friend/relative/associate reacts to various situations, including obstacles and   victories.    General characteristics of the personality of your friend/relative/associate    How other people feel about your friend/relative/associate. (Are they feared? Loved?   Respected? Hated? Do they incite any other strong emotions? What causes the feelings about   them you have highlighted?  Please remember that the diary entries need to reflect the mores and culture of the time, rather than   those of the twentieth-first century.   So where should you begin? Start by looking up facts about the friend/relative/associate that can be   found in your textbook.   Then, go Wikipedia. Check out general information about your friend/relative/associate as well as   the time period during which he or she lived. You can also check out other websites to get additional   information.  Finally, visit the library at UCC (virtually, that is) and do general searches in the library   catalogue/database on the time period and your friend/relative/associate.   There is a lot of room for creativity, so use your imagination along with the research you do!  Citation: make sure you include a Works Cited page with all the resources you used  This assignment must be at 1200