Ancient Roman History - Youtube video

Roman History - Youtube video

Historical Fiction Genre Study & Book List

Historical Fiction Book List on Good Reads - click to open

  Mostly True Adventures of Homer P Figg - Level T/U - great HF book based during Civil War.                                             

Essential Questions:

1.    How can we better understand elements of historical fiction?

2.   How can we connect the history understanding and the story narrative to create meaning?

3.   How can we understand the perspective in our story?

Historical fiction is a complex genre. History comes alive in this genre.

 Historical fiction stories...

•  are written to portray a time period
•  convey information about an historical event
• contain a lot of setting details
• contain characters who are either imaginary or who have actually lived during the time
•  introduce readers to themes that occur in our history… such as war, famine, and migration.
 

 Historical fiction  has many features of the fiction genre.

Stories are written as narrative because they tell a story about the character’s life.

The story may begin at any time in the subject’s life, dealing with events happening in the world at the time.

Descriptive  setting details give a sense of what is was like then.

Descriptive character description to make them seem real and important.

Historical fiction stories often compare the character to other people at that time. 

Strong cause and effect. Events in history set off a chain reaction and the character’s actions are part of that chain.  Decisions characters make are influenced by the events taking place. 

  Stories often explain the problems and obstacles faced by the subject and actions he took to overcame them.

Stories often explain motives – why the subject did something.  What did the person hope to accomplish in the world?

The author has a perspective and the story expresses that point of view.

 Stories often are written using the following sources, letters, diaries, interviews, documents (obituary, birth certificate, passport, speeches), research, informational texts, newspaper and magazine articles

Historical Fiction Story Elements

1.           Characters – imagined or real, on both sides of historical issue 

2.           Plot – portrays daily life, follows historical events

3.Conflict – real historical problem or event is catalyst, problems of yesterday can reflect problems of today

4.Setting Details– Place of historical significance, specific factual use of time, use of authentic details, words of long ago.

5.Perspective – author or character’s point of view on history, position on issue depends on point of view

Rap Version of The Odyssey - Connect to Hero's Journey

 


Watch and listen to this rap version of The Odyssey.

• How does this rap Odyssey help you to understand the story better?
• How does it connect to what you learned about The Hero's Journey, The Lightning Thief or ancient Greece?
• What words or images stand out to you?

Post your comments so that we can all see them.


 http://www.flocabulary.com/odyssey/

Katy Perry Firework Uses Figurative Lanugage

How does Katy Perry use Figurative Language to create her message in her song Firework?
http://youtu.be/tym_UEpp7GY

Top Ten Reasons to Read This Book

Tell us why we should read this book!  Choose one of your recent favorite books to post about.

Post Book Title, Author, Genre and Top Ten!

1. Top ten reasons to read this book.

2. Top ten things, or reasons, I hate or love about my character.

3. Top ten favorite quotes from my book.

4. Top ten questions I would like to ask the author of my book.

5. Top ten lessons I have learned from this book.

6. Top ten places mentioned in my book.

7. Top ten things I wanted to scream out loud about my book.

8. Top ten things I can’t stop thinking about in my book.

9. Top ten other movies, books, magazines and other world events that have happened that relate to my book.

10. Create your own top ten list that fits your book!

Egypt Protest Photos 2014 Lang/Zabbia Responses

 


Choose 3 photos from the link below, and explain your thinking about the protests in Egpyt.

• Start with your name and the date and number of the photo
• Observations - what do you see in the photo?
• Inferences - I think this means...
• Questions - I wonder....
• Use 2 protest vocabulary words for each photo.
• Post replies to two other student posts.   Say "This is for...." and then explain how the other post helped you to improve your thinking about this topic. http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/world/middleeast/201101-egypt-protest-gallery/