This document provides an overview of an 11th grade English unit on historical fiction using informational text. The unit will explore historical fiction and non-fiction genres and their relationship to current events. Students will complete a cross-curricular research project using their history class lessons to deepen their understanding of U.S. history. By the end of the unit, students will be able to analyze different types of historical writing and examine how current events relate to the past. They will present their research on a topic involving a U.S. social conflict, such as the Civil War or Civil Rights Movement.

1. 11TH GRADE ENGLISH
UNIT 11.5: HISTORICAL FICTION USING
INFORMATIONAL TEXT, WEEK ONE
Mr. Suarez
11th Grade english

2. Unit 11.5:
Historical Fiction Using Informational Text
 In this unit, we will explore historical fiction and
non-fiction and their relationship to each other and
to current events. We will also complete a cross-
curricular research project in order to bring what
they are learning in their History class to the ESL
classroom and deepen their understanding of the
history of the United States.
 At the end of this unite we will be able to use our
research skills and our knowledge of historical texts
and their relationship to examine different types of
historical writing and analyze current events to

3. This weeks’ reflections
 In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the
next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you
can do is nothing. - Theodore Roosevelt
 16. If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a
chance of being a prophet. – Isaac B. Singer
 Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly
well.- Unknown
 Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something,
perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of
anyone stumbling on something sitting down. – Charles F.
Kettering, Engineer and Inventor
 Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things
that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the
bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.- Mark Twain
 Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the
rewards of success. - Unknown

4. Important Questions
 How does culture and relationships help
shape identity?
 How do good writers bring the past to life?
 How do readers make connections to voices
from the past?

5. Important Ideas
 Experiences, relationships, history, and culture
influence identity.
 Voices from the past speak to us of other times and
places.
 Learning about the past illuminates our
understanding of the present.

6. Content Vocabulary
 Analyze
 Conflict
 Document
 Fact, fiction
 Resolution
 Social conflict
 Synthesize
 Truth

7. Research Project
 Each student will choose a topic from U.S.
History involving some sort of social conflict to
research using encyclopedias, magazines,
newspapers, and internet resources, if
available.
 (Topic Ideas: The Civil War, The Civil Rights
Movement, Women’s Suffrage, Integration,
Immigration [current or past], Terrorism and
National Security, etc.)

8. Research Project
 The student begins by writing closed and
open-ended questions that he/she wants to
answer through his/her research.
 The student needs to use multiple sources to
gather information and synthesize the
information in order to write his/her report.
 The student shares his/her research with
his/her classmates through an oral
presentation.

9. What is Historical fiction?
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