Open-ended and intriguing, a writing prompt about two people from history is sure to get your young scholars thinking. Have them choose two historical figures, and after brainstorming their similarities and differences, successes and failures, and impact on the modern world, assign the writing prompt to help kids structure their essays. For an extra challenge, have them choose two figures at random from completely different periods in history.

Concepts

explanatory writing

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Additional Tags

history writing prompts, Writing Prompts, compare and contrast writing prompts, english language arts

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Pros

• A good addition to a language arts or social studies class
• Useful as a timed-writing prompt or a final paper at the end of a unit

Cons

• None