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Understanding the Forms of Prose

Reading Standard 3.1: Articulate the expressed purposes and characteristics of different forms of prose (for example: short story, novel, novella, essay). . WHAT (today's learning goal): To define the word ?prose" and to be able to name and identify different types of prose.WHY: To help you ant

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Understanding the Forms of Prose

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    1. Understanding the Forms of Prose Reading Standard 3.1: Articulate the expressed purposes and characteristics of different forms of prose (for example: short story, novel, novella, essay). Our learning goal: To define the word “prose” and to be able to identify what is prose and what is not.

    2. Reading Standard 3.1: Articulate the expressed purposes and characteristics of different forms of prose (for example: short story, novel, novella, essay). WHAT (today’s learning goal): To define the word “prose” and to be able to name and identify different types of prose. WHY: To help you anticipate what you’ll find in the text. HOW: Show the meaning of the word with a gesture and identify whether something is prose using thumbs up/thumbs down.

    4. Definition of Prose Prose is ordinary, straightforward writing.

    5. A few examples of prose: Your textbook chapter A novel A magazine article A web article A newspaper article A note from your friend

    6. Two Types of Prose

    7. Fiction Fiction has characters who move through a series of events (the plot) and work through a conflict, which leads to a climax and a resolution. Short story: Anywhere from a few pages to twenty pages long. Novel: A hundred or more pages long. Novella: A short novel (under a hundred pages)

    8. Nonfiction Nonfiction relates facts about real people, places, things, and events. Essay: a short piece that discusses a limited topic. A magazine article A biography

    9. Is it Prose? Thumbs up/thumbs down

    10. Is it fictional prose Is it nonfictional prose

    11. Reading Standard 3.1: Articulate the expressed purposes and characteristics of different forms of prose (for example: short story, novel, novella, essay). WHAT (today’s learning goal): To define the word “prose” and to be able to name and identify different types of prose. WHY: To help you anticipate what you’ll find in the text. HOW: Show the meaning of the word with a gesture and identify whether something is prose using thumbs up/thumbs down.

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