A Gathering of Days
Historical Fiction
Reading Strategies
100
The author
Who is Joan W. Blos
100
Stories are set in this time frame.
What is the past?
100
What is questioning?
What is questioning?
200
The book is written in this form.
What is journal or diary?
200
The action in the story revoloves around this.
What is an actual event/historcial period?
200
You make a guess about what will happen in a narrative.
What is predicting?
300
The main character
Who is Catherine
300
Each item or action described must belong in the lofe of the period.
What is accurate setting?
300
This is used to locate definitions of words.
What is a dictionary?
400
The genre of the book
What is historical fiction?
400
Characters in the story will probably have different attitudes and beliefs from ours?
What is sttitudes of characters?
400
The words in a sentence that help you define a unknown word.
What are context clues?
500
The setting of the story
Where is New Hampshire?
500
The problems that characters face are effected by the events of their time.
What is The Era and The Plot?
500
A statement describing the main points.
What is a summary?
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