Question

• History Poetry Assignment •
(Please help me out with this worth 55 points!!)

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

Answer 1

Here could be the start of an acrostic for improvements to the railroads:

If you want more help, feel free to ask.

the railroads in the eIghteenth century saw some changes,

trains provided quicker, safer, seaMing better way to travel

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