[ISLMA-Share] Sub-genre Semi-Fiction

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Thanks for all the great ideas and thoughts! This is very helpful!

On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 11:38 AM, Email list for the Illinois School
Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> I sounds like “narrative non-fiction” to me.  An example would be
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> “Bomb:  the race to steal …..” or “Lincoln’s Grave Robbers” by Shenkin.
> Any of the Jim Murphy non-fiction (American Plague).  There are great lists
> out on the web.
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> The difference between historical fiction and narrative or creative
> non-fiction is that in historical fiction the event is real but the
> characters, actions, and other details are fictional.  In narrative
> non-fiction actions and events are dramatized but not fictionalized.
> Characters in the story are portrayed as themselves.
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> Betty Klein
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> Avery Coonley School
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> Downers Grove, IL   60515
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> bklein at averycoonley.org
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> *From:* islma-bounces at list.railslibraries.info [mailto:islma-bounces at list.
> railslibraries.info] *On Behalf Of *Email list for the Illinois School
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> *Sent:* Wednesday, April 12, 2017 11:01 AM
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> *Subject:* [ISLMA-Share] Sub-genre Semi-Fiction
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> Hi all,
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> We use the purchased Schoolwide Curriculum here for LA.  I am struggling
> with a sub-genre they call Semi-Fiction.
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> Here is the teacher's description:
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> "It's defined as a text that implements a great deal of nonfiction, such
> as a fictional depiction "based on a true story", or a reconstructed
> biography. I don't really understand how this would be differentiated from
> historical or realistic fiction."
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> I agree with her.  Anyone know of any titles I could suggest to her that
> would fit this term of Semi-Fiction?  She thought Someone Named Eva, I
> thought Countdown, by Deborah Wiles.
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> Any help is appreciated!
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> Sincerely,
> Amy Hamernick
> Media Specialist
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> Apple Teacher
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> Century Jr. High
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> @AhamernickCJH
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> "If we always do what we've always done,
> we will get what we've always got."
> ~Adam Urbanski~
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Sincerely,
Amy Hamernick
Media Specialist
Apple Teacher
Century Jr. High
@AhamernickCJH
#CenturyWildcats


"If we always do what we've always done,
we will get what we've always got."
~Adam Urbanski~
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