Non-Fiction

Non-Fiction is writing about something that has actually happened. Newspapers are mostly non-fiction. There are also biographies and auto-biographies about real people. Interviews and documentaries are non-fiction. Diaries, journals and today's version the blog and social networking pages are largely non-fiction. Writing that doesn't originate from someone imagination is non-fiction. The logs of ships and aircraft are also types of non-fiction.

Non-Fiction is based on facts and opinion of people as they have interpreted events. In this unit you will be studying about non-fiction through studying stories from soldiers. These stories have come from letters hoe and diaries kept by soldiers. Many of these are kept at the Australian War Memorial archives and used for study especially for people writing books, movies or preparing documentaries.

In this unit it would be a benefit to you to log into http://www.awm.gov.au/kidshq

This is a site at the Australian War Memorial which can help you research a soldier or someone else such as a nurse from information on the site.