•history poetry assignment •
( me out with this worth 55 )

you need to write a poem based on one of the new advances in transportation or communication.

• the poem must be a minimum of 3 stanzas long

topics to choose from:
• improvements to railroads in the late 1700s
• canals
• steamboats
• robert fulton
• “the rocket” (steam powered locomotive)
• george stephenson
• transcontinental railroad
• telegraph
• samuel morse

poetry styles to choose from:
• acrostic
•narrative
•free verse
• ode