2. INDEPENDENT READING
Get an SSR book and read for 15 minutes.
Instead of a metalog…
On page 10 of your workbooks write 2 questions that
you have, based on your SSR reading.
Be sure to include all parts (Date, Title, etc.)
Record your reading on page 33 of your workbook
5. READ-ALOUD/THINK-ALOUD
Strategy: Ask questions/clarify
Summarize chapter #1
Reading pages 6-12
Focus on the differences between then and now
Stopping points
Page 8, Paragraph 5
Will the children be involved with the issue of slavery?
Page 11, Paragraph 1
Why does the mother back away from Frances Mary?
Identify target words in context
6. CLASSROOM CONVERSATION
What do you think about the lives of
the Kelly family?
What are some of the advantages
that the Kelly’s have?
What challenges could the family
have in the future?
What questions do you have about
the family and the situation so far?
Add questions to next slide.
7. QUESTIONS ABOUT: A FAMILY APART
Student Responses:
Who was the man that gave the book/combs to
Frances? –Aris
Do we know their names? –Nielah
What is the main characters name? –Nyesha
Why is the family so poor? –Yenissa
Where is the family going to go “in the future”? –
Ethan
Why was the man so mean to Francis Mary? –Tia
9. FEATURES OF HISTORICAL FICTION
Student Responses:
Based on a particular time period. –Tia
Real events. –Donquell
Characters don’t need to be real. –Yenissa
Uses elements from specific time periods. –Kereston
It’s a narrative, a story.
The setting is in a real time or place of the past.
Plot or action may include a significant event from
the past.
Characters may include real people who made
important contributions to the culture or time period
in which the novel is set.
Real and fictional events are woven together.
10. ESTABLISHING HISTORICAL CONTEXT
Findthe copyright date of A Family Apart
in the front of the novel.
How does the author make the time
period of the novel believable?
Whatare the differences between then
and now?
Transportation, schools, clothing, social
customs, money, jobs, etc.
11. HISTORICAL DETAILS
THEN NOW
10 cents was a lot of 10 cents alone can
money barely buy a piece of
Top hats & canes were gum .
cool North face
Handsome cab (horse jackets, beanies, “skul
and buggy) ly”
Cars
12. HISTORICAL DETAILS
THEN NOW
4-Cent pamphlet on $20+ books on current
Abe Lincoln politicians
“urchins” “kids”
Iron-rimmed wheels tires
13. SMALL GROUP WORK
Create a story about a character who has to run
an errand for a teacher in school today (the main
character may be fictional or real).
Work in small groups to brainstorm
Kind of errand, transportation, location, etc.
Write a short story on Page 2 of your workbooks
about how the errand is completed.
Include: Setting, main character, other characters, etc.
Each student will write their own narrative.
Underline details that show the reader that this
event happened in the present.
14. CLOSURE
Share Writing!
Homework:
Over vacation… Ask the oldest person that
you know what they might include in a
historical novel based on their childhood.