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Past with Today’s Technology: Using Prezi to Prepare for
Historical Fiction |Grades||6 – 10| |Lesson Plan Type||Standard
Lesson| |Estimated Time||Fifteen 50-minute sessions| To prepare
for reading a historical novel, such as A Long Way from Chicago
by Richard Peck, Countdown by Deborah Wiles, Dead End in Norvelt
by Jack Gantos, or The Rock and the River by Kekla Magoon,
students research various aspects of a setting’s decade. Then
using the information they have gathered, students communicate
their findings via Prezi, a Web-based pres