1. © 2004 The McGraw-Hill Companies. All rights reserved. Chapter 10 Historical Fiction

2. © 2004 The McGraw-Hill Companies. All rights reserved. Historical Fiction  Historical Fiction for Today’s Child  Stories of Prehistoric Times  Stories of the Eastern Hemisphere  Stories of the Western World  Into the Twentieth Century

3. © 2004 The McGraw-Hill Companies. All rights reserved. Historical Fiction for Today’s Child  The Value of Historical Fiction  Types of Historical Fiction  Criteria for Historical Fiction

4. © 2004 The McGraw-Hill Companies. All rights reserved. Evaluating Historical Fiction  Does the book tell a good story?  Is fact blended with fiction in such a way that the background is subordinate to the story?  Is the story as accurate and authentic as possible?

5. © 2004 The McGraw-Hill Companies. All rights reserved. Evaluating Historical Fiction (cont.)  Does the author provide background information in an afterword or author’s note that will help readers distinguish between what is fact and what has been fictionalized?  Does the story accurately reflect the values and norms of the culture depicted?

6. © 2004 The McGraw-Hill Companies. All rights reserved. Evaluating Historical Fiction (cont.)  Does the author avoid any contradiction or distortion of the known events of history?  Are background details authentic, in keeping with accurate information about the period?  Does the story accurately reflect the values and spirit of the times?

7. © 2004 The McGraw-Hill Companies. All rights reserved. Evaluating Historical Fiction (cont.)  Are different points of view on the issues of the time presented or acknowledged?  Is the dialogue constructed so as to convey a feeling of the period without seeming artificial? Does it reflect character as well as setting?

8. © 2004 The McGraw-Hill Companies. All rights reserved. Evaluating Historical Fiction (cont.)  Is the language of the narrative appropriate to the time, drawing figures of speech from the setting?  Does the theme provide insight and understanding for today’s problems as well as those of the past?

9. © 2004 The McGraw-Hill Companies. All rights reserved. Stories of the Eastern Hemisphere  Ancient Times  Tales of Early Britain  The Later Middle Ages  The Emergence of the Modern World

10. © 2004 The McGraw-Hill Companies. All rights reserved. Stories of the Western Hemisphere  Native Americans  Colonial America  The Revolutionary Era  The American Frontier  The Civil War Era  Resistance to Slavery  The Civil War

11. © 2004 The McGraw-Hill Companies. All rights reserved. Stories of the Western Hemisphere (contd.)  The Age of Economic Revolution  Immigrants

12. © 2004 The McGraw-Hill Companies. All rights reserved. Into the Twentieth Century  The Struggle for Civil Rights  The Great Depression  The World at War  Escape and Resistance  The Impact of World War II on the Home Front  War Continues