Historical Fiction

Historical Fiction:

Stories that take place in a particular time period in the past

Novel Examples  1.  Number the Stars

        2.  The Devils Arithmatic3. Letters from Rifka

4. Johnny Tremain5. Sarah Plain and Tall

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• Forbes, Esther. Johnny Tremain. New York: Bantam Double Dell Books for Young Readers, 1943

• Hesse, Karen. Letters From Rifka. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1992

• Lowry, Lois. Number The Stars. New York: Bantam Double Dell Books for Young Readers, 1989

• Mac Lachlan, Patricia. Sarah Plain and Tall. New York: Harper Collins Publishers Inc., 1985

• Yollen, Jane. The Devils Arithmetic. Viking Penguin Inc., 1998

Novel Diagram

Letters From RifkaLetters From Rifka

Sarah Plain and TallSarah Plain and Tall The Devils ArithmeticThe Devils Arithmetic

Number The StarsNumber The Stars

Johnny TremainJohnny Tremain

Historical FictionHistorical Fiction

1. 1. Mary's Song by Sylvia Plath. .

2. 2. Holocaust by OKesta

• The Sunday lamb cracks in its fat.The fatSacrifices its opacity. . . .

A window, holy gold.The fire makes it precious,The same fire

Melting the tallow heretics,Ousting the Jews.Their thick palls float

Over the cicatrix of Poland, burnt-outGermany.They do not die.

Grey birds obsess my heart,Mouth-ash, ash of eye.They settle. On the high

PrecipiceThat emptied one man into spaceThe ovens glowed like heavens, incandescent.

It is a heart,This holocaust I walk in,O golden child the world will kill and eat.

–Count the graves,Beheld on both sides of the battle lines,See the pain, Of families torn apart by death,Hear the cries,People dying alone in the dust,Wonder why,Such pain could be allowed in the world,Feel the tears,Wept silently by those who remain,Dream of life,Before the camps, the fire, the cold,Try to know,Terror they faced, forgotten by all,Understand,Those who were killed comitted no crime

Citation’s

»1. Plath, Silvia. Mary’s Song. http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/sylvia_plath/poems/18934.html

»2. OKesta. Holocaust. http://www.booksie.com/war_and_military/poetry/okesta/holocaust

Citation

»Deitch, Donna, dir. The Devils Arithmetic. Kirsten Dunst and Brittany Murphy. 1999. DVD. Showtime 1999

• Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom’s Cabin. 1852

• Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere. 1863