Thank you for educators around the world who express interest in our classroom and our studies.
We have been studying our nation- its land, its history, its symbols; and the location of Canada and its political regions. Our inquiry investigates how knowing our past influences our present.
To complement our study of Canada, we are studying historical fiction. Because historical fiction tends to start at a time of great historical tension, which almost inevitably means a time of change, readers who
pay attention to the feelings that a setting engenders will probably be
experiencing rising tension. In most historical fiction, the setting for the
story is a place that is in the throes of great pressures.
This unit, however, is not simply a unit on reading historical fiction. It is a unit on tackling complex texts. It is not simply to entice students to be swept up by the settings in their historical fiction novels. It is to help readers be more attentive to the tone and atmosphere in a setting and more alert to gathering tensions—to the winds of change.
Artifacts of learning and learning tasks will be posted soon!
