Monday, September 26, 2022

Back to School: #HistoricalFiction Resources for the Classroom. Download #CCSS #lessonplans for #MGLit #homeschool #Teaching⁠

Summer is over and kids (and teachers) are back in the classroom. If you'd like to find some new historical fiction resources for your classroom or home school use, check out these sources.

Share My Lesson has thousands of items under the Historical Fiction heading, including general lessons for reading/understanding/writing historical fiction, and lesson plans for specific books. You can find my lesson plans for The Well of Sacrifice (pre-Columbian Mayan times), The Eyes of Pharaohand The Genie's Gift here as well. As a bonus, each of these lessons is free! Or you can download free lesson plans for my books on my website.
Student cartoons illustrating scenes from The Well of Sacrifice.
The Curriculum Corner website offers a download of Historical Fiction Resources. Some of these sound really interesting, with lessons on Comparing Fact and Fiction, Visualizing the Time Period, comparing books, comparing the past to today, and thinking about how characters in the story might present themselves in modern social media. The package also offers journal response pages, a comic strip template, book club celebration ideas, and much more.


Teachers Pay Teachers offers a variety of lesson plans when searching for historical fiction. Prices vary from free to over $20. You can get lesson plans I've provided for free, including the ones mentioned above (A CCSS-Aligned Guide for The Eyes of Pharaoh, my middle grade novel set in ancient Egypt; Projects for The Well of Sacrificeand a Teaching Guide for The Genie's Gift, a middle grade historical fantasy set in the time of the Ottoman Empire).

Teacher Vision has over a hundred items tagged as Historical Fiction, including many book discussion guides.

If you are interested in getting classroom sets of The Eyes of Pharaoh or The Genie's Gift at a discount, contact the publisher, Spellbound River Press, or order direct through Ingram.

Chris Eboch is the author of over 100 books for children, including nonfiction and fiction, early reader through teen. Her novels for ages nine and up include The Eyes of Pharaoh, a mystery in ancient Egypt; The Well of Sacrifice, a Mayan adventure; The Genie’s Gift, a middle eastern fantasy; and the Haunted series, about kids who travel with a ghost hunter TV show, which starts with The Ghost on the Stairs

Chris's writing craft books include You Can Write for Children: How to Write Great Stories, Articles, and Books for Kids and Teenagers, and Advanced Plotting.