Learning About the Past through Historical Fiction

We have begun a new reading unit called Historical Fiction. This is a genre that takes us on journeys with the characters in our books into the past. It can be a bit difficult to understand sometimes as we travel back to times that we don’t know because we weren’t alive then, and to places we have never visited. To read and understand Historical Fiction we must stop often to visualize the time period and piece together, like a puzzle, the lifestyle of the characters and the important events on the time.

Think about one of the Historical Fiction books you have finished.

* Write about the time period the book took place and how you know this.

*What did you learn about the time period that you did not know before you read the book?

*Why did the author write the book?

Be sure to use the "tracking your thinking" notes in your Readers Notebook to do this reflection!

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