Subject Area: Reading Grade 7
(Facts, Names, Dates, Information)
Students should know...
-a working definition for the genre including at least 2 elements or characteristics: stories to portray a time period or convey information about a specific time period or historical event usually from a time period at least 30 years in the past
-fictional stories blended with nonfiction events, settings, and people
-specialized historic fiction text vocabulary i.e. orphan train, frontier, adoption, child labor, abolitionists, free and slave states, etc.
-the importance of setting in historical fiction-time and place
-cause and effect literary term and how it interrelates historical events
Unit of Study: Historical fiction Anticipated Length: 4 weeks
(Concepts, Principles, Generalizations)
Students should understand …
Knowledge of history can be extended through the perspective of characters in historical fiction novels and stories.
Historical fiction reveals universal themes in literature.
Curriculum is interrelated and subjects build on other subjects.
Cause and effect play an important part in the sequencing of events through history.
Skills – written as a verb
Students should be able to...
Define in writing or orally the genre of historic fiction including its major characteristics.
Cite and apply information from nonfiction texts to historic fiction texts.
Discriminate between historic fiction and nonfiction materials.
Discuss historic fiction books using genre specific vocabulary.
Compare and contrast categories of information and ideas from a historical era to its corresponding modern equivalent in the form of sidebar research and judge their value and growth i.e. transportation, education, entertainment, politics, gender roles, careers, fashion, etc.
-Pick an appropriate leveled historic fiction novel.