Term Project Topic Ideas

Remember that you will be choosing from Options 1, 2, or 3 that combine both Web presentations and traditional research writing.

• Sarah Kemble Knight - You might like to explore her unusual life, trace her travels, examine the role of humor in her diary.
• Samuel Sewall - his Diary is rich in social history; what might have been some of his typical days?
• John Greenleaf Whittier - How about a whole Snow-Bound Web page?
  
• Edward Taylor - Much has been written about Taylor's theology as manifested in his writings, but what can we learn about the day-to-day life of a New England clergyman from him? Especially, how does his life as a poet square with his profession?
  
• 1776, the musical - We know that a musical is by definition a fantasy, but what does this musical production show us that is real about life of that time and the enduring document?
  
• Mary Rowlandson - Do you have a sense of what her day-to-day life in captivity was like? Could you recreate that in a Web environment? What other issues raised by her narrative interest you?
  
• "Good Health, Good Thoughts, and Good Humor, than God Almighty" - Read more of William Byrd's Secret Diary. Could you create a Web page that would help viewers be able to know what the texture of his life was?