RAFT by Frances Blake

                                                                                                                

  US History Writing Assignment

You were a 14 year old boy in 1861; you have joined the service of the Virginia military. You, as a young man, had to lie about your age to fight for your state, the Confederacy, and beliefs. You survived the civil war and return home where your county is now a part of the new state of West Virginia. It is now 1915 and 50 years since the end of the Civil War. Lots of changes have happened and due to the 50^th anniversary of the Civil War ending; a journalist has convinced you to write a series of memoirs of your experiences during and after the war for a magazine.  

Your assignment is to be this man and recount a memory and write a story of something he may have encountered as a young boy being a soldier for the Confederacy and/or coming home after the war. (How was he treated now being a part of a new state where the majority of the people had supported the Union?)

Begin your writing by following RAFT

                        What’s your ROLE: _________________________

What’s your AUDIENCE: _____________________

What’s your FORMAT: _______________________

What’s your TOPIC: _________________________

*Each Memoir should be 250-300 words