Materials: Getting Away With Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case by Chris Crowe
Discussion: Students will gain an understanding of the purposes and types of nonfiction literature. They will also be able to identify several access features in nonfiction books.
How to Teach It: We would define the term nonfiction as a class and discuss the types of nonfiction including essays, journals, documentaries, scientific papers, biographies, textbooks, etc.I would have the students fill out a Civil Rights KWLL. First listing what they know, what they would like to know, then after reading the text they would write what they learned from the book and then what they learned from outside research (or information from class). I would ask them to look through the book and point out anything that is different from a nonfiction book compared to a fiction novel. They hopefully would mention several access features like the glossary or time line. Then I would show them examples and discuss the purposes of several other access features common to nonfiction literature. In Getting Away With Murder we would find a Table of Contents, Introduction, Chapter Titles, Photographs and labels, Time line, Bibliography, Additional Resources, and Further Reading. To assess their learning and give them practice writing, I might even have them create a page or two of their own nonfiction book (in any of the formats we discussed), including a couple access features. They would research a little about other significant people, places, or events realted to Civil Rights in the United States.
Bibliographic Information of Resource Text:
http://www.homeofbob.com/literature/genre/nonfiction/elements.html
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