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Historical Fiction

Retrieved from: http://www.mysterescanadiens.ca/blooden.html. Historical Fiction. ‘Making and Remaking the Past’ Dr. Wendy Donawa Reading Canada Dr. Leah C. Fowler. SECTION VI. Case Studies. Retrieved from: http://www.arts.on.ca/Page1422.aspx. Case Study A.

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Historical Fiction

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  1. Retrieved from: http://www.mysterescanadiens.ca/blooden.html Historical Fiction ‘Making and Remaking the Past’ Dr. Wendy Donawa Reading Canada Dr. Leah C. Fowler

  2. SECTION VI Case Studies

  3. Retrieved from: http://www.arts.on.ca/Page1422.aspx Case Study A Historical thinking and literary insight in The Crazy Man by Pamela Porter

  4. Porter’s (2005) novel The Crazy Man is an accessible and engaging portal for students to develop historical thinking and literary insight and to learn to become lifelong inquiring readers.

  5. Historical Thinking... • Readers engage in historical thinking as they experience the drought and poverty of the Canadian prairies as the background to family and physical loss, relational struggles, prejudice, difficult neighbours, and the important role of the school in farming communities

  6. Interpretive Community... • In the interpretive community crucible of early junior high school class discussions, present-day questions reverberate across the decades about why people are dangerous when they are afraid, what really “makes people crazy”, and what makes people whole again.

  7. Curriculum Content • Students can observe education, child development, social justice, farming practices, and treatment of and attitudes toward mental illness of the 1960s.

  8. Retrieved from: http://freshlyeducatedmen.wordpress.com/2009/08/26/the-book-of-negroes-the-motion-picture/ Case Study B Historical thinking and literary insight in the Canadian section of Lawrence Hill’s The Book of Negroes

  9. Questions to Consider • How does Aminata describe her own appearance, health, and wellbeing throughout her long life? • How does she grow and change, and how does the author make this change believable? • What choices is she faced with, and what do they reveal of her character? • How does she articulate her understanding of freedom? • How important to her sense of self is her identity as witness and storyteller?

  10. Author Study: Lawrence Hill • What values and discourses shaped the writer’s work? • How have political events during his lifetime shaped what he has written? • How have social/cultural customs of Hill’s time influenced his outlook as a writer? • What elements in his writing career seem to have led to The Book of Negroes?

  11. Both The Crazy Man and The Book of Negroes are excellent Canadian novels to engage, teach, and inspire secondary students about the value of historical literature, looking back at another time and place.

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