Imagine that you are a person living in Europe sometime between the years 1400 B.C.E. and 1400 C.E. You can choose to be either a man or a woman.
• Choose an occupation that allows you to be involved in state leadership, education, and/or in the creation of buildings, visual art, performance, literature, or music.
• Write a first-person essay about the time in which you live and the work that you do.
• Use specific terms and historic references that place you in the field and the time period you have chosen.
• As a part of the essay, express WHY you make the decisions and/or the art that you make in the culture in which you live, and WHAT VALUE you hope your work will have for the future.
• Cite fully any sources you use for research on a bibliography page titled List of Works Consulted. Direct quotes from sources must be shown as such in the body of the essay, and end-noted in the text to agree with the works quoted in the Works Consulted on the bibliography page.