Reading Unit 5 Questions: Historical Fiction Directions: Choose a question to respond to in your reading notebook. Remember to restate the ​ question in your topic sentence, provide pieces of textual support from the book along with a direct quote, and end with a concluding sentence. Make sure your response is at least 3-5 sentences (QJ) or 5-7 sentences (write long). Each time you complete a question,check it off. Each Entry MUST be Headed With: Text Title: Author: Date: Question #: Historical Fiction Bend I 1. Describe to me the setting. Provide both physical details & details to describe the emotional atmosphere. 2. What can you tell about this society from the book? 3. How has the author created mood through the setting details? 4. Which detail from the story best helps me understand why a character displays a particular response or emotion? 5. What message does the author get across through a character’s response? 6. Describe any setting shifts within your book. How does this shift help you understand the text? 7. Are there phrases about the future (foreshadowing)? Do characters or the narrator observe something in the background that might be a hint about something to come later? 8. Identify a symbol in the text. Explain what it represents and its’ significance. 9. How is a character’s behavior shaped by the historical context (social pressure, community norms, forces around them)? Bend II 10. Describe the plot of your story. 11. How have your initial ideas of your story changed? Do you have any revised thinking now? 12. How does your story help teach the characters lessons? Bend III 13. Describe the story or an event from a secondary character’s point of view. 14. Who has the power in your story? How is that power visible? Provide examples. 15. Describe a shift of power within your book. 16. Compare/contrast the time period of your book with true accounts. 17. Talk about the time period in which the story is set. How well does the author convey the era? 18. Is this a time period that you knew a lot about before you read this book? If so, did you learn anything new? If not, did you come away with a greater understanding of what this particular time and place in history was actually like? 19. Is it difficult to keep our own, modern-day experiences from influencing the reading of a historical fiction tale? Can we imagine what life was really like for the characters within the context of the time period? 20. Compare this book to other works of historical fiction your group has read. Is it similar to any of them? Did you like it more or less than other books you've read? What do you think will be your lasting impression of the book? .