GENRE

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GENRE

• Just a way of saying different categories or
  types of books

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How about...

• autobiography
• biography
• fantasy
• folklore
• poetry
• nonfiction

• historical fiction
• realistic fiction adventure mystery animal
  stories contemporary
• science fiction

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Can you tell me your favorite genres?
N O N - F I C T I O N
F I C T I O N
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Fiction or Non-fiction?
Auto-biography
Folklore
Poetry
Science Fiction
Fantasy
Realistic Fiction
Biography
Historical Fiction
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Autobiography

• Factual story about a real person in the past or
  in the present.
• Written by the person the story is about.

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Biography

• Factual story about a real person in the past or
  in the present.
• Written by someone else.

President George Washington
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Fantasy

• Characters allowed to have traits that we know
  are physically impossible.

• Characters may solve a problem by using magic
  or some other impossible strategy.

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Folklore
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Folklore (Example)
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Poetry

• Verse written to evoke thoughts and feeling in
  the reader.
• Often uses rhythm and rhyme to convey its message.

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POETRY (example)

• Im Nobody, Who Are You?
• I'm nobody! Who are you?Are you nobody,
  too?Then there's a pair of us -don't
  tell!They'd banish us, you know.How dreary to
  be somebody!How public, like a frogTo tell your
  name the livelong dayTo an admiring bog!

• Im Nobody, Who are You?

• By Emily Dickinson

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Nonfiction

• Books that contain factual information about a
  subject, or reference books in general (like
  encyclopedias).

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Nonfiction Example

• Earharts story on the clip could be considered a
  Nonfiction Biography

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Historical Fiction

• Stories that take place in a real location at a
  particular time in the past.
• Characters may be fictional or real.
• Some real events are mixed with fictional events
  of the time.

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Historical Fiction
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Realistic Fiction

• Stories that involve characters and events that
  appear to be realistic.

I read the book I realized that something like
that happened to me.
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Science Fiction

• Stories in which the major events rely on
  scientific fact, discovery, or exploration and/or
  characters who are alien to Earth.
• Setting may be Earth or some other space location.

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Genre practice

• Bucket of books and genre book marks

• As a group place the correct bookmark in the
  books in your bucket/basket. Every book will
  have a bookmark.
• Do your best! The team that finishes first with
  their books marked correctly, will win a prize.