2. What Is a Genre of Literature?
A genre is a category or type of literature that is generally broken down into fiction and nonfiction subcategories.

3. Fiction Versus Nonfiction
Fictional stories are not real and involve characters and storylines that are created by the author.

4. What Is Historical Fiction?
refers to a story that
takes place in the
past. Often the setting
is real, but the
characters are made
up from the author’s
imagination.

5. What Is Historical Fiction?
Through novels and
short stories, an
author may combine
factual information
about time, place,
events, and real
people of the period
with fictional characters,
dialogue, and details.

6. Characteristics of Historical Fiction
The author presents a
well told story that doesn’t
conflict with historical
records.
Portrays characters
realistically
Artfully folds in historical
facts.

7. Examples of Historical Fiction
Falsely accused of theft and
murder, an orphaned peasant boy
in fourteenth-century England
flees his village and meets a
larger-than-life juggler who
holds a dangerous secret.

8. Examples of Historical Fiction
In 1943, during the
German occupation of
Denmark, ten-year-old
Annemarie learns how
to be brave and courageous
when she helps shelter her
Jewish friend from the
Nazis.

9. Example of Historical Fiction
The ordinary interactions
and everyday routines of
the Watsons, an African-
American family living in
Flint, Michigan, are drastically
changed after they go to visit
Grandma in Alabama in the
summer of 1963.

10. Test Your Knowledge
A category or type of literature is called a _______________?

11. Historical Fiction or Not?
A story about a boy who can make himself invisible so that he can spy on people True or false?
A story about a pig who wears
clothes and can talk to humans.
True or false?
A story about a slave named Isabel
who spies for the rebels during the
Revolutionary War. True or false?

12. Historical Fiction or Not?
Fourteen-year-old Billie Jo relates
the hardships of living on her family's
wheat farm in Oklahoma during the
dust bowl years of the Depression.

13. What Is Your Favorite Historical Fiction Book?