Identifying various of genres of fiction

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What Am I Reading?

• Identifying various of genres of fiction

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Objective

• Identify various genres of fiction based on
  their characteristics.

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Genre Graphic Organizer

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Mystery

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Science Fiction

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Historical Fiction

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Adventure

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Fantasy

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Fable

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Myth

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Assessment

• Meg Murry and her friends become involved in time
  travel and unearthly strangers while
  searching for Meg's father, who has
  disappeared while engaged in secret work
  for the government.
• Joe, Fred, and Sam travel back in time to 1805
  and join the Lewis and Clark expedition and
  share in its dangers.
• The daughter of two magicians, twelve-year-old
  Ingraine wants nothing more than to be a
  knight, and when their castle is attacked by
  a treacherous neighbor bent on stealing their
  singing magic books, Ingraine has an
  opportunity to demonstrate her bravery.

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Assessment

• 4) The great detective Seymour Sleuth and his
  photographer Muggs travel to Borneo to help find
  the legendary Black Flower of Sumatra, a
  possible cure for the hiccups.
• 5) With the help of Great-Grandmother Earth,
  Watakame, a hard-working Indian, survives a
  great flood and begins a new life.
• 6) After the destruction of their floatplane,
  sixteen-year-old Gabe and his Denéé friend,
  Raymond, struggle to survive a winter in the
  wilderness of the Northwest Territories.

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Assessment

• 7) When the birds have a contest to see which one
  can fly the highest, they all learn a valuable
  lesson about cooperation.
• 8) A little girl falls down a rabbit hole and
  discovers a world of amusing and nonsensical
  characters.
• 9) In 1718, off the coast of North Carolina, a
  young cabin boy assists in the final capture
  and execution of Blackbeard the pirate.
• 10) The mice learn that "some things are easier
  said than done" when they try to get rid of
  their great enemy, the cat.

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Answers to Assessment

• A Wrinkle in Time science fiction
• Lewis and Clark-- and Jodie, Freddi, and
  Samantha historical fiction
• Ingraine the Brave fantasy
• The mystery of the monkey's maze mystery
• The tree that rains the flood myth of the
  Huichol Indians of Mexico myth
• Far North adventure
• The eagle and the wren fable
• Alice in wonderland fantasy
• Blackbeard's last fight historical fiction
• Belling the cat a retelling of Aesop's fable
  fable

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Credits
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1.greece.k12.ny.us/files/filesystem/Genres.pdf ht
tp//www.gcms.k12.il.us/gcmsel/lynnet/literary_gen
res.htm http//www.breitlinks.com/my_libmedia/chi
ldren27s_genres.htm http//www.geocities.com/fif
th_grade_tpes/genre.html http//www.arrtreads.org
/adventuregenrestudy.htm http//www.swsd.k12.wa.u
s/MP-C/cbrune/AdventureGenre.htm http//www.libra
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