![]() According to a New York Times article published in the 1974, Fox stated that The Slave Dancer, “In many ways … was the most difficult book I’ve ever written”. ![]() Fox also learned about the different laws that were presented in the time that the novel took place, which was in 1840. She wanted to have accurate information about slave ships to describe it in her novel. ![]() Paula Fox spent many hours in the New York City public libraries to gather information for her novel. The story brought into awareness the horrors of the slave trade and slavery. Paula Fox wrote The Slave Dancer, which is about a boy name Jessie who is kidnapped by sailors to play his fife in a slave ship. When authors writing novels are able to use facts and make it relate to people’s own experience, then students could gain a better understanding of events in certain points of history and that is what Paula Fox did in her novel The Slave Dancer. There aren’t enough details to engage students into the events and get them to think about the significance of what happened. History text books alone can be boring because of the many facts and figures. Students are able to connect their learning experience in history class to characters that they read about in their historical novels. ![]() One of the genres I think is most beneficial is historical fiction. ![]() I believe that students should read a wide range of genres in their English classes. ![]()
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