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1+ hour
Drama and Creative Writing, Local History and Heritage
A Room with a View (Through Time) Every place has it’s own history and it’s own stories. In this activity, you will think about a place you know well and write three exciting short stories about it.
Choose a room, or a place that you know well. This can be a place that means something particularly special to you, where something happened, or just somewhere you like to visit. Consider what kinds of things may have happened, or may yet happen, in this place. 1) Firstly start by writing a story set in an historical era. Where is this place and who may have lived, worked, or visited there. Choose a period of history such as the tudors, during the world wars, or maybe the 1960s. If the room you have chosen is in a modern building, think about what might have existed there before the building. Use knowledge you have of that time, and the place, and try and make it as accurate as possible to how people might have lived then. 2) Your second short story should be set in the present day. It can be about you, and your memories of the place, or about something completely fictional. Consider what you or the people in your story might feel being in this place. What might they smell, hear, and see? Try and capture the atmosphere of the place in those few paragraphs. 3) This final story is set in the future. It could just be 20 years into the future, or it could be 40,000 years! Have a think about how people might live. What sorts of technological advances and scientific breakthroughs might have been made? How would those things impact on this place? What might people use this place for in the future? For this story really consider the similarities between this and the other two stories. What sorts of things might stay the same throughout?
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