HISTORICAL FICTION PBL Your Teacher is Absent PROBLEM

HISTORICAL FICTION PBL Your Teacher is Absent!

PROBLEM ▶ Please Help! Your teacher is absent. Your class is starting a new unit and the substitute doesn’t know anything about the new topic of the new unit. ▶ Your job is to: ▶ Research the characteristics of historical fiction ▶ Create an anchor chart to help the substitute teacher

WHAT DO YOU KNOW? ▶ How do Anchor Charts help us? ▶ What makes an Anchor Chart great?

WHAT DO YOU NEED TO KNOW?

Procedure ▶ Use your Chromebook to research “characteristics of historical fiction”. ▶You will rotate in research stations to gather research to answer the question, “What is historical fiction? ”

Procedure ▶ Use at least 3 different sources to finalize your list of characteristics. ▶A minimum of 7 characteristics of historical fiction are needed (on your chart) that accurately describe historical fiction.

WEBSITES ▶ Link 1 ▶ Link 2 ▶ Link 3 ▶ Link 4

HISTORICAL FICTION GALLERY WALK 1. What characteristics appear on all of the anchor charts created? 2. Why is the information on the charts important? 3. How might the characteristics be used while having book talks? 4. What should be the focus of our reading in this unit? 5. Using the research that you have gathered, what you learned about historical fiction?