MIDDLE SCHOOL READING UNITS OF STUDY: Historical Fiction Book Clubs

Readers of Historical Fiction Ask . . .

(Session 1) What kind of person is the main character?
What’s going on?
(Session 4)  re there character traits that collide with
A
what’s going on?
 ight the resulting tension be the conflict at
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the heart of this story?
(Session 5)  hat are the perspectives of minor
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characters?
(Session 6)  ow does the ending of the book lead to new
H
insights about possible themes and about
what came before?
(Session 8)  ow do other stories set in this same era
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offer a different window into the time
period?
(Session 11)  hat nonfiction sources can I use to build
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background knowledge about the era?
© 2018 by Heinemann and Lucy Calkins et al., Units of Study for Teaching Reading, Middle School: Historical Fiction Book Clubs. Anchor Chart 1: “Readers of Historical Fiction Ask . . .”
© 2018 by Heinemann and Lucy Calkins et al., Units of Study for Teaching Reading, Middle School: Historical Fiction Book Clubs. Anchor Chart 1: “Readers of Historical Fiction Ask . . .”
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