3.3 Nonfiction Feature Detective
Table of Contents
Later in this lesson, you are going to go on a search for nonfiction features to see how many you can find. First, let’s look closely at a few of them. Using some excerpts from nonfiction books, we’ll see what we can find. The table of contents gives the heading and the beginning page number of each section of a book.
Imagine you are an eleven-year-old girl, and the people in control say you may not go to school. What would you do? Would you go anyway? Would you speak out against your treatment? Would you risk your life for an education? Malala Yousafzai did all of these things. She was born in 1997. She was shot in 2012, but survived and went on to be the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize - at only age 17 (in 2014). She is a very inspiring young person!
Here is one Table of Contents from a recently published biography on Malala. Use it to answer the questions about the Table of Contents in your Learning Guide.
(Source: Reusser, Kayleen. Malala - A Beacon Biography. Purple Toad Publishing, 2016, page 3.)
Go to your Learning Guide and answer the Contents questions.
