1. UNIT 2- MIGRATION STORIES
Lesson 2: Establishing Historical Context

2. INDEPENDENT READING
 Get an SSR book and read for 15 minutes.
 Instead of a metalog…
 On page 10 of your workbooks write 2 questions that
you have, based on your SSR reading.
 Be sure to include all parts (Date, Title, etc.)
 Record your reading on page 33 of your workbook

3. WORD STUDY
Precarious
 (adj) dangerously
unstable, unsteady
or insecure

4. WORD STUDY
Humiliate
 (verb) to damage
someone’s
dignity or pride

5. READ-ALOUD/THINK-ALOUD
 Strategy: Ask questions/clarify
 Summarize chapter #1
 Reading pages 6-12
 Focus on the differences between then and now
 Stopping points
 Page 8, Paragraph 5
 Will the children be involved with the issue of slavery?
 Page 11, Paragraph 1
 Why does the mother back away from Frances Mary?
 Identify target words in context

6. CLASSROOM CONVERSATION
 What do you think about the lives of
the Kelly family?
 What are some of the advantages
that the Kelly’s have?
 What challenges could the family
have in the future?
 What questions do you have about
the family and the situation so far?
 Add questions to next slide.

7. QUESTIONS ABOUT: A FAMILY APART
 Student Responses:
 Who was the man that gave the book/combs to
Frances? –Aris
 Do we know their names? –Nielah
 What is the main characters name? –Nyesha
 Why is the family so poor? –Yenissa
 Where is the family going to go “in the future”? –
Ethan
 Why was the man so mean to Francis Mary? –Tia

8. WHOLE CLASS INSTRUCTION

9. FEATURES OF HISTORICAL FICTION
 Student Responses:
 Based on a particular time period. –Tia
 Real events. –Donquell
 Characters don’t need to be real. –Yenissa
 Uses elements from specific time periods. –Kereston
 It’s a narrative, a story.
 The setting is in a real time or place of the past.
 Plot or action may include a significant event from
the past.
 Characters may include real people who made
important contributions to the culture or time period
in which the novel is set.
 Real and fictional events are woven together.

10. ESTABLISHING HISTORICAL CONTEXT
 Findthe copyright date of A Family Apart
in the front of the novel.
 How does the author make the time
period of the novel believable?
 Whatare the differences between then
and now?
 Transportation, schools, clothing, social
customs, money, jobs, etc.

11. HISTORICAL DETAILS
THEN NOW
 10 cents was a lot of  10 cents alone can
money barely buy a piece of
 Top hats & canes were gum .
cool  North face
 Handsome cab (horse jackets, beanies, “skul
and buggy) ly”
 Cars

12. HISTORICAL DETAILS
THEN NOW
 4-Cent pamphlet on  $20+ books on current
Abe Lincoln politicians
 “urchins”  “kids”
 Iron-rimmed wheels  tires

13. SMALL GROUP WORK
 Create a story about a character who has to run
an errand for a teacher in school today (the main
character may be fictional or real).
 Work in small groups to brainstorm
 Kind of errand, transportation, location, etc.
 Write a short story on Page 2 of your workbooks
about how the errand is completed.
 Include: Setting, main character, other characters, etc.
 Each student will write their own narrative.
 Underline details that show the reader that this
event happened in the present.

14. CLOSURE
Share Writing!
Homework:
 Over vacation… Ask the oldest person that
you know what they might include in a
historical novel based on their childhood.