Think about the historical fiction book you are reading.
How does the main problem in the story relate to the time period in your historical fiction book? Explain.
Choose
one theme in your historical fiction book and describe how the author
develops that theme. Use details from the story to support your
thinking.
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My story is called: A ballad of the civil war.
ReplyDeleteThe time period is in the 1860's. The time period affects the problem by taking a small disagreement between twin brothers into taking different sides of the war.
One of the twins, Tom, joins the side of the war that is against slavery. The other one, Jack, joins his father to fight against his brother. Sometimes I wonder how two people who love each other so much can end up fighting in opposite sides of the war?
I think that if Jack would have been less selfish when he was young, maybe they would have been fighting together for civilization. When Jack was little, he got a lot of toys that he hated for his birthday. Tom suggested to give the ones he didn't like to some poor slaves. jack said no and kept all the toys to himself. Tom gave toys to the slaves, nevertheless.
I think that moment was what set them apart.
At the end of the book, there was no solution to their relationship.
The time period in "A Ballad in the Civil War" is the late 1850's. The main problem in the book is that twin brothers are growing up together and apart. I think how the main idea and the time period relate is because Tom and Jack went on different sides in the Civil War, and there was a lot of drama and sadness in that time, so that is how they relate. I think a theme in the book is growing up. The author develops this theme because first when Aaron left, Jack didn't really care but Tom was really sad. Another example is that when the Civil War started Jack and Tom went on different sides.
ReplyDeletemy book is called indian school and it is in around 1837 and the problem is well there is a girl named Lucy (main character) and a girl named Raven (other mail character). and everyone thinks Raven ran away but she really just went into the woods and now she has to survive in the wilderness and every day Lucy goes to help Raven and she gives her food and blankets and stuff to survive.
ReplyDeleteMy story was called "the breeze" . The story was based on the 1400 and the problem was,they couldn't find the perfect place to stay so they have to gather all the food and set off with the friends they meet on the way to help them gather and eat food .
ReplyDeleteThere's going to be a happy little ending when they find Manhatta.
my book is called a solijers letter. its about a guy named tom. he moved away with his friends. and he moved to fight a war. every food he finds he spilts it with his friends. one day he goses to the farm to beg for food but the farm scermed and said no.
ReplyDeleteThis is about our book talk you our book talk group books
DeleteOpps. I meant our book talk books sorry
Deletebook club book is The cabin Faced West. The problem connects to the time period because they moved and the problem is that they have to work hard to get food. In that time period, people moved to get land but also had to work hard and harvest crops. One theme is Ann, the main character being lonely. The author develops this by making ann relieved when her mother joined her fake tea party.
ReplyDeletemy book is " a balled of the civil war" it takes place in the early 1850 and to twin brothers are growing up and apart from each other and they go on different sides of the civil war.and the problem relates to the time period because the civil war going on then and the twins went to different sides.i think a theme in the book is family. i know this because the book is about to brothers that grow apart from each other.
ReplyDeleteMy book for book club “Shooting star” is about a girl named Annie Oakley.
ReplyDeleteAnnie is a sharpshooter and has seven siblings. Her father died, leaving her mother to take care of 8 children.Then her mother re-married. The new husband died after she had another kid. Annie’s mother did not have enough money to take care of 9 kids. So when they were starving one day, Annie had an idea that she could shoot some game. She shot a plump rabbit clean through it’s forehead. Her mother got angry at her for shooting the rabbit, because she thought that shooting and hunting was for men, and not lady-like. And it was not enough to feed the family. So her mother sent Annie to the poor house.The poor house was like an orphanage. She made a friend named Sally(who was an orphan), and made an enemy named Emmeline(also an orphan but does not like to talk about it) at the poor house. She learned a lot in school, and helped the poor house by taking care of the babies, sewing,and patching.
One day she was “adopted” by farmers who just had a child, to help them take care of the child, and to take care of the animals and crops. They said she would be rewarded with 30 cents a week+shelter+food.Annie named them mr. and mrs.Wolf , for they did not give her any money, they hit her, and they gave her bad food. One day Annie decided to run away from them. She walked all the way to the train station,where she met a couple who were very kind to her. They asked her if she was running away from her family, and she half lied and said no. The train came and they went aboard the train. And when she confessed that she lied, they forgave her, and gave her some food and lemonade. Then they paid her train ticket, and “made” her last name (Oakley)so she wouldn’t have to say her last name that her mother gave her, Moses, for she didn’t like it, and got teased because of it. When she got to her stop, which was the stop to her village, she got off, she took a ride with the mailman, which turned out to be her 2nd step-father.They had gotten a two story house with two bedrooms on the top and two bedrooms on the bottom.Annie sewed for money, but did not like it, for her mother wanted her to be a seamstress. One day Annie got tired of being inside , so she went outside, shined the gun, and shot three plump turkeys. Her father (he wanted her to call him Grandpap) was impressed but Annie’s mother was angry. So when Annie asked if she could sell her skins and meat, Annie’s mom did not like it,but she agreed, in her own way(for Annie’s mother was a quaker).
I do not know what the time period was, but I guess it’s somewhere in 1800s. I also believe this because they mentioned steam trains.
My historical fiction book is about a boy named Caril Arick and he go's on this adventure whit his family to america. They going on this adventure because in there country Sweden there is no food and no drinks to drink so they decided to move to america. I think the problem in the story is that the family has no food to eat and no drinks to drink and another problem in the story is that they have to go through all these kind of problems just to get to america. I think some of the themes in the story are sadness , change , happiness. The reason i think this is because they had no food to eat and no drink's to drink and they were sad. then change in there life was going to america also they were very happy to go to america as a family.
ReplyDeleteThe problem is that Raven can't see her brother Star Face, Lucy's aunt Emma, was getting Raven annoyed as a result Raven left, and she can't get back because she will be in big trouble. she can't go back to the tribe because she can't leave Star Face alone at the Indian School. It's related to the time period, because if Raven would leave the indian school for good, she needs to have good survival skills in order to make it back to the tribe - especially if she has to take care of her brother as well while they are on their journey.
ReplyDeleteThe theme that I would like to write about is friendship. I know this because Lucy and Raven, keep developing their friendship. At first Raven and Lucy didn't speak to one another, and as the story goes, their friendship grew stronger and stronger, for example, it started as no talking, to talking, to helping each other out in bad situations such as; Lucy had to cover up on Raven's disappearance. The author develops this theme by keep adding evidence of a stronger friendship between the two.
The name of my book is A Shooting Star. The main problem relates with the time period because the characters, (Annie, ma, grandpap, and Jason) are poor and are having issues with their mortgage. The author develops important details very nicely, like he makes an important detail than he waits a little bit and then adds another important detail. An important detail in A Shooting Star is that Annie’s dad and sister, Mary Jane have both died.
ReplyDeleteNadia, his name is not Jason it is Johnny.
DeleteMy mentor text is a long way to a new land. It relates to my piece because it is about going through a lot to get to a place were they would survive in peace and no harm, and so does my piece. They are also similar because they are both from the 1700.
ReplyDeleteI think in my book, The Cabin Faced West, the problem ties in to the period. The problem is that Anne has no friends because she recently moved away to the other side of the mountain. The story takes place during the pioneer days when people would leave friends and family to start a new life.
ReplyDeleteAlso, in The Cabin Faced West, a theme that the author develops is that Anne hates Andy. I know this because Anne says, “And what’s so fun about that?!” to Andy. This is not a nice sentence to say to someone and she has a lot of attitude, she would only do that to people she dislikes because she doesn’t act this way to Daniel.
The main problem in my book, The Cabin Faced West, is that the main character, Ann has no friends. This relates to the time period because this is when the Pioneers started building America. Ann's family had to move from Gettysburg, where her best friend lived and that is why she had no friends.
ReplyDeleteI think a theme in this book is kindness because Ann teaches Andy, a boy that lives near where she moved to, how to read and write and since there were only schools in Gettysburg he couldn't learn from a real school.
Another theme in this book is family because Ann's mother and father helped out another family -- Andy's family because his mom was sick and they needed help. This also relates to the theme of kindness. However, Ann's brother David looked in her diary and she got really mad, so that is not such a good example about family.
My historical fiction book that I'm reading is called the Indian School it's about this girl who lost her parents in a wagon accident so she has to go to the indian school where her aunt and uncle own so she learns at the Indian School and she makes new this relates to the time period Because her parents died in a wagon accident in wagons in the time period was the 18 hundreds. one theme in Indian School is Raven refushe'so aunt Emma's rules she's refusing to listen to her the author makes the theme develop by making Raven really mean and she is making her refuse aunt Emma's rules
ReplyDeleteIn the book Squanto, squanto is being taken to the slave market to be a slave. In my historical fiction piece ( julian and the battle of quebec) he gets trapped from his own ambush plan they take him to the slave market, Julian was the first person on the block to get sold. Also in squanto he finds good men who free squanto and take him to a home. In my historical fiction piece he finds his army to ambush benidect arnold and his men to avenge thier village and all of the familys. This is why squanto and Julian and the battle of quebec are simalar. Thanks for reading my blog piece!
ReplyDeleteI am reading with my book talk group The Cabin faced west by Jean Fritz.
ReplyDeleteThe main problem in the story relates to the time period because Ann, the main character in the book, has no girl friends. This is because back then houses weren't just feet apart. They were much farther. There are only boys and babies living near by.
One theme is moving. The author develops that theme because Ann moves from Gettysburg. The Arthur Scott, another character in the book who is living with Ann's family, stakes a claim on the other side of the mountain and then goes off to build a cabin there.
Andy, a boy in the story, will move once his father gets back from a very long hunting trip, and his mother gets better.
That is how I know the author, Jean Fritz, develops this theme.
The historical fiction book that I'm reading is called Ballad in the Civil War. The time period is in the late 1850s the main problem in the story relates to the theme because at that time the civil war was going on. One theme that the author develops is drama. I know this because in the beginning there was a little drama when Aaron got sent to the quarter then at the end there was more drama when Tom and Jack went to different sides of the war.
ReplyDeleteMy book group is reading " A Shooting Star" a novel about Annie Oakly the woman sharpshooter. This book takes place in the 1870's. The problem in the book is that Annie's mom is a quaker and wants Annie to be lady like. But Annie loves and has talent for shooting. Annie's family is poor so she keeps shooting. You wouldn't have to shoot animals and be ladylike in today. That is the problem that relates to the time period.
ReplyDeletemy book talk book is a shooting star and is in the 1800s. Back then there werent many medicines that could cure people. One of the main problems is that one. Another problem is that they hardly have any money. That is why they had to send Annie to the infirmary. The problem about medicines is that their first Pa died of freezing cold and second Papa died of illness and oldest sister Mary Jane died of illness. Even if they had medicine, they would not have been able to afford it. A theme in the book was Annie thinking of her family and the author built it by Annie finally coming home!!!!!! (:
ReplyDeletemy story is called Trustworthy Native Americans and it relates to my book talk group because my main character Mary Ann Dobson is going through a lot right now and so is the main character in my book talk book her name is Ann. one theme in that book is: working hard is the only way.i know this because in the book Ann has to work for everything like having piece and quiet to write in her dairy and she has to work for getting a party and to have a simple dinner she has to do more then we would probably would have done. that is how the author shows it.
ReplyDeleteIn the book The Indian School Lucy is a shy 10 year old who's parents died in terrible wagon. She is then taken away to Detroit in a carriage with a Blacksmith named Mr.Jones, They then stop by Mother Sally on the way to Aunt Emma and Uncle Edward and the Indian School. Mother Sally freaks out then takes out her gun and points it at them but doesn't fire because she knows it's them so she puts it down and asked who Lucy is then Mr.Jones tells Mother Sally who she is they all have breakfast then they go to Lucy's Aunt and Uncle's then goes to the Indian School. She meets Raven a girl that doesn't like to listen she also has a little brother named Starface, when Aunt Emma tries to cut Starface's hair she quickly stops Aunt Emma from cutting Starface's hair.
ReplyDeleteThe things I have learn in 4 grade
ReplyDelete1 division
2 long division
3 fraction
4 haiku
5 decimals
6 turning fractions into decimals
7 ms S is the best teacher
8 I have so many friends. I am the luckiest girl alive
9 length and width
10 how to add decimals
11 know I know what congress means
12 now I know that repeal means to undo a law or tax.
Now that I know my fractions when I cut apples into fours I can say you have1/4 or a quarter of the whole apple.fr.actions are important because with them you can cut something equally .This is how I know that I practiced fraction in 4 grade.
I think I am the luckiest girl alive to have ms s. She is patient with us she teaches us stuff at our own and leaves no one behind. She tries to include everyone which she does very well. I think four is my lucky # because having me s is lucky. This is why I feel so lucky to have ms s.