Emily is a historical
fiction picture book about the poet Emily Dickenson. It is about a mysterious woman who has not
come out of her house in twenty years.
The narrator and her family get an anonymous letter asking the mom to
come play piano for the women. The narrator
goes to the house too and that is where she meets Emily. The book has an underlying meaning about
going from winter to spring and things’ coming back to life because that is
what happens to Emily.
While I was reading this book I was wondering if it
was a historic fiction book or not. That
is because it is not until the last page that you learn that the text is about Emily
Dickenson. So, the book kept my curiosity
up. To incorporate this into my
classroom I would have students pick a historical figure and do some research
on them. Then I would have them write a
story where the readers do not truly know who the figure is until the end of
the story. Kind of like a historical
figure guess who.
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