Literature Circles for Any Historical Fiction Book Club Activities

Ready for book clubs, but not sure where to start? Book clubs and literature circles will be a breeze with this unit that has everything you need to start book clubs with historical fiction today!

With these mini lessons, you can provide whole class instruction and your students can read different books. Perfect for differentiation since students can read books that are at their reading level!

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This unit is perfect for literature circles, book clubs or whole-class instruction. Divide the book into four sections, and go! Group activities provided along with mini lessons and independent practice. Wrap up the genre study one of the extension ideas.

Use multiple times with any historical fiction novel! Students can read different books, yet the whole class can participate in studying the genre.

This is going to save you so much time!

This is what you'll get:

• 20 mini lessons that you'll use to teach historical fiction
• teacher lesson plans that include journal prompts, suggestions for assessment, and homework
• an editable planning calendar
• four vocabulary activities
• 12 extension ideas for student projects
• suggested answer key
• teaching tips and help for getting the most from this resource

The mini lessons include:

1. what is historical fiction?
2. pre-reading survey
3. setting up a reading schedule
4. author research
5. reading summary and questions for the first section
6. notes on historical fiction
7. evidence of genre
8. finding evidence in the text
9. reading summary and questions for the second section
10. historical fiction and the setting
11. identifying elements of the setting
12. historical research
13. reading summary and questions for the third section
14. identifying characters
15. character profile: the protagonist
16. character profile: the antagonist
17. reading summary and questions for the fourth section
18. themes in literature
19. finding proof for theme
20. post reading survey & book discussion questions

Great resource for readers workshop, whole class, instruction, or sub plans!

Just add books, and you are ready to go!

Need a distance learning resource for book clubs? You can find one here:

Distance Learning Book Club

You may also be interested in these resources:

• Dystopia Literature Circles
• Informational Texts: Mini lessons
• Book Talks: A Guide to Running Successful Book Talks in your Classroom

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