#whyreadhistoricalfiction #whywritehistoricalfiction

This morning 7th grade LA students are coming to the library to check out Historical Fiction books. Since I'm just beginning my third week at MJS our fiction section has yet to be "genrefied", so I spent the day yesterday pulling and "stickering" Historical Fiction titles to help our students find what they will be looking for. I separated books on tables according to their historical period, but I began thinking, "Is that really how we choose historical fiction, and if not for the history why do we chose to read historical fiction at all?". In light of Connected Educator month and my love for crowd sourcing, I created a Padlet for collecting responses and tweeted my question.

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