HISTORICAL FICTION/RESEARCH PROJECT

As a result of your work on the Annotated Bibliography you are now an expert, or quite familiar at least, with the event you were assigned. You now have an illustration that depicts this event or a part of it as it happened.

Objective: Your task is to use this illustration and your knowledge of the assigned event to create a work of historical fiction that accurately depicts this event. Your illustration should be a scene that is described in the story you create. In other words you will create a fictional character that experiences your “real” historical event, either as a participant or a witness.

___Step 1: Study your illustration and answer the questions on “Illustration Examination.”

___Step 2: Come up with “Research Questions” based on your illustration and answer them with the sources you’ve already found or new sources (If you need new sources, be sure to create more-Source & Information note cards and to update your Bibliography on Noodle Bib).

___Step 3: Story Ideas/Rough Outline (Characters/Narrator, Plot, Scenes).

___Step 4: Come up with more “Research Questions” based on Story Ideas. Answer them with the sources you’ve already found or new sources (if you need new sources, be sure to create more Source & Information note cards and to update your Bibliography on Noodle Bib).

___Step 5: Final Outline.

___Step 6: Start writing.

___Step 7: Peer Editing- Spelling, Punctuation, Grammar.

___Step 8: Corrections for Final Draft.

-Title page (Title, Name, Date, Class & Teacher).

-Bibliography (without notes).

STEP 1

ILLUSTRATION EXAMINATION

What does your illustration depict? What is happening? At what point during your event, do you think, is the illustration showing (beginning/middle/end)? How are the people reacting to what is happening? (NO DETAIL is TOO SMALL)

STEP 2

RESEARCH QUESTIONS (Illustration)

Based on what you already know from your research on this event, what questions does your illustration raise? Is there more specific information you need to clarify what you see going on in the illustration?

Examples- Who was involved specifically? How/why were they involved? What was the outcome of their involvement?

(Does your Annotated Bibliography help you to discover the answers?)

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STEP 3

STORY IDEAS

CHARACTER(S): Who are they? How are they involved? (active participant or observer)

POINT OF VIEW: Who is telling the story?

PLOT: What is going to happen? When is it going to take place?

SETTING/SCENES: Where/when will your story begin? What will your “main event” be? How will your story end?

STEP 4

RESEARCH QUESTIONS (Story Ideas)

Based on what you already know from your research on this event, what questions do your Story Ideas raise? Is there more specific information you need to create accurate scenes or a believable character?

Examples- Where does my character live? What would they be wearing? How do they make a living? What is it like to be a Minuteman/British soldier? How/why were they involved? What was the outcome of their involvement?

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