奶奶的生日——讓我們回顧歷史

Write down your birth date. Next， note down the birth date of one of your grandparents. Then do some 1）historical research. Try to find out what happened on those two days in history. Maybe you can 2）get access to a newspaper from those time periods by looking on the web or going to your library or local 3）archives. If you can’t get access to those， then just ask your elders. Try to find out what happened， not just in your own home area but also in at least two countries that are far away from your own—what political 4）conflicts， what wars were happening， for example， what were people thinking about， what were they worrying about， were there new inventions， technological breakthroughs， can you figure out how people spent their time. It should be fun and 5）intriguing to do this research， but your goal would also be to use the past， and thinking about historical change， to 6）wrestle with 7）timeless human questions， like how did we become who we are， how can we win freedom， and how can we face the future with creativity and 8）resilience.

寫下你自己的生日。接著，記下你祖父母其中一人的生日，然后作一些歷史研究。嘗試找出歷史上在那兩天發生的事。也許你能通過查找網站、圖書館或者當地的檔案館找到那個時期的報紙。如果你通過那些方式都找不到，可以問問你的長輩。嘗試找出在那時發生了什么，不僅僅是在你自己的國家，還有在至少兩個遙遠的國度——例如，那里發生了什么政治沖突，爆發了什么戰爭，人們有何想法和擔憂，有什么新的發明、技術的突破，人們是怎么打發時間的。作這些研究是很有意思的，但是你的目標是通過過去，思索歷史變遷，努力解決人類永恒的問題。諸如人類是怎么來的，我們是如何獲得自由的，以及我們如何用創造力和順應力來面對未來。