In this lesson, students will research and write a three-page short story “treatment” about a factual event in history for the purpose of pitching it as an idea for a feature film. In doing so, they will learn about cause and effect, chronological events, and historical narrative.Many movies are a fictional retelling of historical events, such as Titanic. Biopics are much in the same vein, based on a true story about a particular person, such as the Oscar-winning film The King’s Speech. These st