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Title: Genres


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Genres
  • Genre is a French word meaning type or
    kind.
  • a category of artistic, musical, or literary
    composition characterized by a particular style,
    form, or content

Grade 4 4.1.12 Experience various literary and
media genres. Read, view, and recognize various
literary (e.g., poetry, novels, historical
fiction, and nonfiction) genres. .
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Definition of a Genre
  • Genre is a French word meaning
  • type or kind.
  • A genre is a category of literary composition
    characterized by a
  • particular style, form, or content.

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List of Genres
  • Tall Tale
  • Fantasy
  • Plays
  • Folktale
  • Poetry
  • Fairy Tale
  • Myths
  • Fable
  • Fiction
  • Realistic Fiction
  • Nonfiction
  • Biography
  • Autobiography
  • Historical Fiction

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Fiction
  • Any piece of writing that tells about people who
    never existed or things that didnt actually
    happen. True-to-life stories and fantasy are
    examples of fiction.

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Fantasy
  • A story that could not possibly happen. A story
    that tells about things that could not really
    happen except in ones imagination. Stories that
    tell about such things as talking animals, huge
    giants, weird monsters, and other such imaginary
    beings.

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Realistic Fiction
  • Stories that are made up by the author, but are
    about people who seem real and are about events
    that could actually have taken place.

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  • A story about a real event or about the life of
    a famous person, a telling of something that
    actually happened, or an article. (Expository
    Nonfiction- exposes the truth)

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Historical Nonfiction
  • A story about a

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Biography
  • A book that tells information about the story of
    someones life, usually someone who does
    something important. (How these people lived,
    what their homes and families were like, what
    they did to make their lives unusual and
    interesting to others.)

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Autobiography
  • A story that a person writes about his or her
    own life.

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Fable
The Hare and the Tortoise
  • Stories that teach a lesson. The lesson at the
    end of a fable is also called a moral or proverb.
    A proverb is a wise saying.

Perseverance wins the race
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Tall Tales
Tall Tale A story that is humorously
exaggerated of the backwoods exploits of an
American frontiersman.
Examples
  • John Henry The Steel Driving Man
  • Life of Johnny Appleseed
  • Paul Bunyan The Giant Lumberjack
  • Pecos Bill Cleans Up the West
  • http//www.animatedtalltales.com/en/

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  • In a play, you watch the characters and hear
    them talk. The directions are in parenthesis,
    they tell the players what to do or how to say
    something. It is written in a special form. You
    can recognize a play by the names with colons
    after them instead of regular paragraphs, by the
    list of characters on the first page, and by the
    stage directions.

Guide Step inside and off you go! (bell
rings)(To the audience)Boy, is he in for shock!
Where hes going its cold, cold, cold! Can you
guess where hes going?Thats right - the
Arctic. Where Alaska and Canada are located. TT
Boy, its freezing! I see nothing but
snow-covered land. Wait a minute. I see someone
coming and theyre wearing caribou skin.
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  • A story or legend that has been handed down,
    usually by word of mouth, from one generation to
    the next in a particular area or country. This
    story is told again and again, until almost all
    of the people in a country know the story.

Feeling that he is a failure in his own village,
a Cherokee Indian boy goes into the forest, where
the creatures present him with a magical flute
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  • A written form of literature that provides means
    for expressing feelings, thoughts, and moods.
    All poetry has its own rhythm, but not all poetry
    rhymes.

The leaves fell The sun shone down All I could do
was watch The colors are amazing Yellow, red,
and gold
http//42explore.com/poetry.htm
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Fairytales
  • Fight between good and evil
  • Teaches a lesson
  • Always has a happy ending
  • ...and they lived happily ever after

Long, long ago... Once upon a time... In a far
off land... Once there was... Far, far away...
In fairytales the heroes and heroines always win
in the end
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  • Myths are stories that usually explain something
    about the world and involve gods and other
    supernatural beings.  

http//teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/mff/myths.h
tm
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What type of genre is it?You are going to be
given 10 different short passages. Given what
you have learned today, you must determine what
genre the literature would fall under.Good Luck!
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  • 1.
  • Narcissus was a Greek boy who loved to look at
    his reflection in the water. As punishment for
    thinking only of himself, the gods turned him
    into a flower that grows by rivers and streams.
    Today, we still call that flower narcissus.

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  • 2.
  • The ten year old Fisher twins have just moved to
    a large city. They try many different ways to
    make friends.

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  • 3.
  • Johnny Appleseed is the name given to an
    American pioneer named John Chapman. Johnny was
    suppose to have traveled hundreds of miles along
    the frontier, giving apple seeds to everyone.
    Some people said he wore a tin pot as a hat, a
    coffee sack as a shirt, and no shoes.

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  • 4.
  • Jake went off to boarding school, and discovered
    that his new professors were beasts from a far
    off galaxy. He is trying to survive, because he
    doesnt want to be the teachers next snack.

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  • 5.
  • SOME BOYS, playing near a pond, saw a number of
    Frogs in the water and began to pelt them with
    stones. They killed several of them, when one of
    the Frogs, lifting his head out of the water,
    cried out "Pray stop, my boys what is sport
    to you, is death to us."
  • -"One man's pleasure may be another's pain."-

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  • 6.
  • This book was written by Hillary Duff about her
    life and growing up in the spotlight. She talks
    about being a Disney star, and what joy it has
    brought to her life.

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  • 7.
  • Homework, Oh Homework!
  • I hate you, you stick.
  • I wish I could wash you
  • down the kitchen sink . . .

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  • 8.
  • Mrs. Runyan
  • Class, turn in your textbooks to page
  • Joey But Mrs. Runyan, you said we wouldnt
    have any Math homework tonight.

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  • 9.
  • A long time ago in a far away land, lived a
    stranger in the woods. No one cared at all for,
    only because they had never got to know him. . .
    The stranger and the princess lived happily ever
    after.

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  • 10.
  • As I was walking to Knoxville yesterday, which
    only took me 7 large leaps, I ran right into the
    sun. It burned my forehead and I had to go to
    the doctor to get it bandaged up. It took
    4,560,358 band aids to cover my boo boo! I went
    home after a long day, and I ate 49 catfish for
    supper. I had caught them the night before,
    bare-handed. They each weighed more than 900
    pounds.
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