Sentence examples for historical homework from inspiring English sources

But if Kushner and Spielberg have done their historical homework, it may well be that this portrayal expresses the real meaning of the House vote, even if it falls far short as a depiction of what literally happened.

Occasional details sound too made-up; when the torturer comes down with adult measles, which might have killed him, his daughter claims that at the age of eight she "looked up the word 'kill' in every dictionary and encyclopedia at school, trying to understand what it really meant"—an arty idea that strains credulity in real life.Ms Danticat has done her historical homework.

James Schamus, chief executive of Focus Features, said "Milk," a biopic of the slain gay-rights hero Harvey Milk, will pick up some heat from the current angst over Proposition 8, but added that he doesn't want the movie to be seen merely as historical homework.

Although Lawrence and Lee may not have painted a fully accurate picture of the Scopes trial itself, they most certainly did their homework from an historical point of view; the cultural context in which they place their work is authentic and richly detailed and, in my judgment, has little to do with the 1950s.

For homework, based on their research, students should write a historical-fiction journal entry from the perspective of a person living through the "scare" or epidemic that they researched.

Like Leithauser, she's done her homework, and the London she sketches is a rich farrago of historical fact and outrageous fancy, teeming with slaves, socialites and drag queens.

You encounter a problem while doing homework and your instructor tells you to search the online Taiwan Historical Dictionary database.

I set the text to read as homework before we discuss it, including the way characters are linked to historical figures.

Brooks has clearly done her homework, and in scenes like these she gives us what we want from historical fiction: a glimpse into the strangeness of history that simultaneously enables us to see a reflection of ourselves.

He did his homework, but claimed a novelist's freedom of imagination - arguing that the better a historical novel was, the less likely it would be "cluttered by the detritus of fact".

4. WRAP-UP/HOMEWORK: For homework, each group member writes a summary, minimum of one page, on one of the themes researched in class (Historical Context, Key Characteristics, or Main Artists and Works).