![]() Character Sketches - Incorporating brief descriptions of a subject in action that explicitly convey character traits.To shape the historical narrative in Almost Astronauts, Stone employs the techniques of biographers in three ways: This blending of the genres of historical narrative and biography is an opportunity to explore both genres with your students. In constructing a narrative that began with the Mercury 13 and concludes with the launch of the first Space Shuttle to be commanded by a woman, Stone has chosen to feature the life stories of the thirteen women who ‘almost’ were astronauts. This is a work of history that is highly biographical. It is a story of boundary breaking: the story of how women became astronauts. Almost Astronauts features life stories, but it is not a traditionally organized biography or a collection of biographies. ![]()
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