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Term 1 Historical Novel:
Open the hyperlink (book) on the left to access hard copies (available in the workbook) of the Term 1 Historical Novels activities, projects, questions and/or grading rubrics 

Reading Chunks and Summaries/ Page Numbers

Serafina Stories Assignments

Novel Packet
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Constance Assignments

Constance Novel Questions
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Novel Packet

Blood on the River Assignments

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Jonathan Jasper Pierce Assignments

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Remember Patience Whipple Asssignments

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Weetamoo Assignments

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Copper Sun: Assignments: 
Please note should you chose to read this book you must have parental approval.

Novel Packet
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Blood on the River:  Audio Podcast
Audio podcasts are created to assist you in reading the text.  They should not be listened to without the text;  rather students should follow along with their own text.  Be sure to write down where you are at in the audio podcast at the end of each reading.

Prologue: 1 min
Chapter 1: 4 min 15 sec
Chapter 2: 9 min
Chapter 3: 5 min 45 sec
Chapter 4: 8 min
Chapter 5: 10 min
Chapter 6: 13 min
Chapter 7: 5 min
Chapter 8: 12 min 20 sec
Chapter 9: 14 min 40 sec
Chapter 10: 7 min
Chapter 11: 9 min 20 sec
Chapter 12: 9 min 35 sec
Chapter 13: 8 min 15 sec
Chapter 14: 11 min 6 sec
Chapter 15: 11 min 30 sec
Chapter 16: 5 min 52 sec
Chapter 17: 10 min 37 sec
Chapter 18: 10 min 20 sec
Chapter 19: 15 min 6 sec
Chapter 20: 11 min 50 sec
Chapter 21: 10 min
Chapter 22: 17 min 17 sec
Chapter 23: 8 min 23 sec
Chapter 24: 8 min
Chapter 25: 11 min
Chapter 26: 7 min 4 sec
Chapter 27: 3 min 33 sec
Afterwards:  7 min
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Serafina Stories: Audio Podcast
Audio podcasts are created to assist you in reading the text.  They should not be listened to without the text; rather students should, follow along with their own text.  Be sure to write down where you are at in the audio podcast at the end of each reading.


Epilogue: 8.30
Chapter 1: 22.27 min
Chapter 2: 16 min
Chapter 3: 16.9 min
Chapter 4: 16.33 min
Chapter 5: 13 min
Chapter 6: 14.30 min
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Weetamoo: Heart of the Pocassets,  Audio Podcast
Audio podcasts are created to assist you in reading the text.  They should not be listened to without the text; rather students should follow along with their own text.  Be sure to write down where you are at in the audio podcast at the end of each session reading.

Reading 1 pg 3-16 18 min
Reading 2 pg 16-31 21 min
Reading 3 pg 32-46 18 min
Reading 4 pg 47-62, 19.30 min
Reading 5 pg 62-pg 77
Reading 6 pg 77-pg 95
Reading 7 pg 92-pg 113
Reading 8, pg 114-pg 130
Reading 9, pg 131-145
Reading 10 pg 145- pg 158

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Constance:  A Story of Early Plymouth  Audio Podcast
Audio podcasts are created to assist you in reading the text.  They should not be listened to without the text; rather, students should follow along with their own text.  Be sure to write down where you are at in the audio podcast at the end of each session reading.

Reading 1A: pgs 11-21 21 min
Reading 1B pgs 22-38 30 min
Reading 2 pg 38-57, 33 min
Reading 3 pg 57-84
Reading 4  pg 84-106 33 min
Reading 5 107-132

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A Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple
Audio Podcast

Audio podcasts are created to assist you in reading the text.  They should not be listened to without the text; rather students should, follow along with their own text.  Be sure to write down where you are at in the audio podcast at the end of each reading.
RPW Reading 1 pg 3-15, 15 min 26 sec
RPW Reading 2 Pg 15-30, 19 min
RPW Reading 3 Pg 31-40, 10 min 45 sec

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The Journal of Jasper Jonathan Pierce: A Pilgrim Boy
Audio Podcast

Audio podcasts are created to assist you in reading the text.  They should not be listened to without the text; rather students should, follow along with their own text.  Be sure to write down where you are at in the audio podcast at the end of each reading.
JJP Reading 1 Pg 3-14
JJP Reading 4 pgs 45-57
JJP Reading 2 Pg 14-29
JJP Reading 3 pgs29-45 (partial)
JJP Reading 3 Completion Reading

Samples of Student Novel Projects

Why Historical Fiction

Steven Pinker: Literacy Breeds Empathy, Reduces Violence

Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker links the Humanitarian Revolution, an historical decline in violence, to widespread literacy. "It's plausible," he explains, "that as people consume fiction, drama, history, and journalism, they start to inhabit the minds of people unlike themselves, which conceivably could expand their empathy and decrease their taste for cruelty
Link to the full program: Singularity Summit
Steven Pinker: A History of Violence

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