Historical Fiction

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Historical Fiction
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Historical Fiction.

• Some characters may be real and others may be
  fictional.
• The story takes place during a period in history.
• Real events from history are mixed with fictional
  events.
• Characters may speak in a way that represents the
  time period.

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• Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned
  peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees
  his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler
  who holds a dangerous secret.

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• In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo
  relates the hardships of living on her family's
  wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years
  of the Depression.

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History Trivia

• When did the Great Depression take place the
  1930s, the 1860s, the 1890s or the 1960s?
• The 1930s

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• Kidnapped by the crew of an Africa bound ship, a
  thirteen-year-old boy discovers to his horror
  that he is on a slaver and his job is to play
  music for the exercise periods of the human cargo.

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• Tim Meeker's older brother, Sam, comes home from
  college to announce he has joined the Patriots to
  fight the British.  Their father is loyal to the
  king, along with most of the community. Sam
  leaves then for the war, even though his father
  is against it.  Tim continues his work, through
  the years of war, at the family's tavern but
  struggles with deciding what people are on what
  side and which side is right.  Tim's hardest
  struggles come when war affects his life, and he
  sees both sides take the life of many.

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History Trivia

• Who is traditionally known as the Father of the
  United States Constitution Ben Franklin,
  Thomas Jefferson, James Madison or John Hancock?
• James Madison

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• This is a story of an African-American family
  living in Mississippi during the Depression of
  the 1930s, whose children do not understand the
  prejudice and discrimination aimed at them.

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• In 1943, during the German occupation of
  Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be
  brave and courageous when she helps shelter her
  Jewish friend from the Nazis.

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• Philip, an adolescent white boy who is blinded
  in a torpedo attack at sea during World War II,
  acquires a new type of vision and courage when he
  is stranded on a tiny Caribbean island with
  Timothy, a kind, elderly black man.

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History Trivia

• The Battle of Normandy took place during what
  war Vietnam War, Korean War, World War I or
  World War II?
• World War II Started June 6, 1944 and continued
  for the next two months over 400,000 soldiers
  were killed or wounded.

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• The ordinary interactions and everyday routines
  of the Watsons, an African-American family living
  in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after
  they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer
  of 1963.

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History Trivia

• Who gave the I have a Dream speech?
• Martin Luther King Jr. in 1963

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• In 1687 in Connecticut, Kit Tyler, feeling out
  of place in the Puritan household of her aunt,
  befriends an old woman considered a witch by the
  community and suddenly finds herself standing
  trial for witchcraft.

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• Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in
  Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression,
  escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search
  of the man he believes to be his father--the
  renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand
  Rapids.

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History Trivia

• Which U.S. President said the only thing we have
  to fear is, fear itself John Kennedy, Franklin
  Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln or Ronald Reagan?
• Franklin Roosevelt

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• Left alone to guard the family's wilderness home
  in eighteenth-century Maine, a boy is
  hard-pressed to survive until local Indians teach
  him their skills.

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• Thirteen-year-old Rosie and members of her
  family travel from their Illinois farm to Chicago
  in 1893 to visit their aunt and attend the
  World's Columbian Exposition which, along with an
  encounter with Buffalo Bill and Lillian Russell,
  turns out to be a life-changing experience for
  everyone.

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• Told in the voices of eleven characters, about
  two young girls, one Jewish and the other
  African-American, who come to the attention of
  the newly formed Ku Klux Klan in a small Vermont
  town in 1924.

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• When their father invites a mail-order bride to
  come live with them in their prairie home, Caleb
  and Anna are captivated by their new mother and
  hope that she will stay.

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• Sequel to Sarah, Plain and Tall.
• When a drought tests the commitment of a
  mail-order bride from Maine to her new home on
  the prairie, her stepchildren hope they will be
  able to remain a family.

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Dear America Series

• A fictional journal kept by twelve-year-old
  Augustus Pelletier, the youngest member of Lewis
  and Clark's Corps of Discovery.

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Dear America Series
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Refresher Questions

• What makes historical fiction different from
  other types of fiction?
• True or False Some characters in historical
  fiction may be real and other characters may be
  fictional.

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