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Week 6: Humour and Historical Fiction


 * Introduction to this week**



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 * Tasks for this week:**


 * Listen to the podcast introduction to humourous books for children here. media type="file" key="Humourous Books for Children.mp3"
 * Think about the general questions about humour that are included in the podcast and post your comments/responses to the Week 6 eClass discussion thread.
 * Also on eClass (in the Week 6 discussion thread) post your favourite humourous author/book so we can compile a master list.
 * Read the handout on Historical Fiction here. [[file:LIS 401 Historical Fiction.doc]]
 * Post your initial responses to the books for this week to the eClass discussion site: //The Trolls// by Polly Horvath & //Out of the Dust// by Karen Hesse
 * If you have not yet done so, start locating sites for the trailfire assignment and play with the trailfire site so you know how it works
 * We are halfway through the term...be sure you have started your reading log assignment


 * //The Trolls// by Polly Horvath**

Polly Horvath's website: [] And the page specifically about [|The Trolls]

Polly Horvath's [|Wikipedia entry]

Check out Polly Horvath's [|Facebook Fan Page]

[|Review of the book]

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 * //Out of the Dust// by Karen Hesse**

Karen Hesse on KidsReads.com

Karen Hesse on Scholastic

Transcript of Interview with Karen Hesse

Newbery Medal Award Speech

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