HISTORIC AL FICTION Ms. Lippert Ms. Murphy

Historical Fiction: A Paradox  History  Elements occur during a real time in the past Setting Dates Characters Momentous events  Fiction  Some elements of work are made up Characters Places Plot sequences

Setting  Set in the past  Definite time period in history  Real place in history  Accuracy and/or authenticity important  Information about time period, place, people, and culture The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien  takes place in Middle Earth Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi  takes place in 14 th century England

Historical Events  About important events that occurred in the past  Usually events greatly impacted people living during that time Moby Dick by Herman Melville  Shark attacks by Moby Dick Amelia’s War by Ann Rinaldi  Civil War

Characters  Can be actual, historical figures  Can be fictitious people  live in a real, historical time and place  Behave in realistic ways Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll  the Caterpillar, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat So Far From Home by Barry Denenberg  Mary Driscoll, fourteen year-old girl

Language and Slang  Modern voice, but  Slang  Accents/dialects  Vocabulary (jargon of a particular culture/geographic region) Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse -“Ma” page 10 -“local song plugger” page 10 -“a rattler” page 5 -“speed-writing test” page 10

Cultural Artifacts  Objects from the specific time period  Makes setting believable  Clothing, hairstyles, appliances, machines, inventions, TV shows or movies, pieces of literature, music/artistic references… Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse  “wearing my straw hat” page 8  “speed writing-test” page 8  “the memory book” page 8