Hi all-
Thank you to everyone who sent in suggestions. If anybody has any other
suggestions, please continue to send them in. Thank you!!!
Lynn
Original Target:
A 7th grade teacher is looking to create literature circles that mirror the 7th
grade social studies curriculum (including countries like China, India, Greece,
Italy, and countries in the Middle East). I have been using Novelist and
Titlewave's Collection Development tool to gather suggestions for him, but was
wondering if you had any suggestions of historical fiction set in these countries
that would make for good, insightful reads.
Hit:
We have a 7th Gr. Lit. class that is reading Chinese Cinderella. We study the same
topics in Social Studies. This book comes from our Biography section, but thought
it might work.
Tasting the sky by barakat
not fiction (but reads like it) true story, picked up by ny times reporter and
later published as a full diary.
Thura's diary my (teenage) life in war time Iraq
Theo by barbara harrison Greece WWII greek famine, nazi occupation. May be a bit
easy for 7th but really good.
The Golden Rat, by Don Wulffson, has been a huge hit with my students. It's set in
13th century China.
Teh Chinese exam, The silk train trail, the laughing Sutra, Journey to the west,
The royal diaries series has several books feturing characters from several of
those countries, A thousand pieces of Gold is an older novle, but still good.
Memoirs of a Geisha for the older students (you could work the movie in) the foot
binding chair,and The girl-son
There is a series by Caroline Lawrence called the Roman Mysteries that are
historical fiction. It is very middle grade appropriate.
If anybody has any other suggestions, please continue to send them in. Thank you!!!
Lynn Slowiak
Library Media Specialist
John Long Middle School
700 Hickory Street
Grafton, WI 53024
262-376-5809
lslowiak@grafton.k12.wi.us
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