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HLLA Chapter 4: Forms of Fiction

HLLA Chapter 4: Forms of Fiction. ● “The Gold Cadillac” ● “Separate But Never Equal” ● “Goodbye Records, Hello CDs” ● “He Lion, Bruh Bear, and Bruh Rabbit” and “The Fox and the Crow” and “The Wolf and the House Dog”. Forms of Fiction. Fiction – made-up stories

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HLLA Chapter 4: Forms of Fiction

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  1. HLLA Chapter 4: Forms of Fiction ● “The Gold Cadillac” ● “Separate But Never Equal” ● “Goodbye Records, Hello CDs” ● “He Lion, Bruh Bear, and Bruh Rabbit” and “The Fox and the Crow” and “The Wolf and the House Dog”

  2. Forms of Fiction • Fiction – made-up stories • Myths – stories about gods and heroes that people told to explain the world around them • Fables – short teaching stories; most famous ones were told by Aesop; have practical morals • Legends – stories based on real historical events; over time have become exaggerated and less accurate • Folk tale – stories that have been passed down as an oral tradition (spoken, not written) for many generations; different cultures have similar ones; entertaining AND meaningful • Short Story – no chapters…Short! • Novella – shorter than a novel but longer than a short story

  3. “The Gold Cadillac” Genre: novella Focus: novella – fiction, shorter than a novel, longer than a short story Skill: Making Predictions Predicting: using clues given by the author to make informed guesses about what will happen next in a story LR&A #6, 7, 11 • The main conflict in this story is _______ • One of the subplots (or a secondary conflict) is _____________________________________. 11. The subject of the story is _________. The theme of the story is __________________________________.

  4. “Separate But Never Equal” • Text Structure – the way a writer organizes his or her ideas • Types of Text Structure: • Chronological Order (Time order) • Problem/Solution • Compare and Contrast • Compare – identify ways in which people, places, or things are similar • Contrast– identify ways in which people, places, or things are different • Cause/Effect • Order of Importance

  5. “Goodbye Records, Hello CDs” • Text Structure – the way a writer organizes his or her ideas • Compare and Contrast Pattern – organizing information by showing how two things are similar and how they are different • Point-by-Point Pattern – moves back and forth between the two things being compared • Block Pattern – covers everything about thing #1 before moving on to thing #2

  6. “He Lion, Bruh Bear, and Bruh Rabbit” and more! • Genre: folk tales and fables • Focus: folk tales, fables, and trickster heroes • Folk Tale – no known author; passed down for generations by word of mouth; similar ones appear in different cultures • Fable – brief story with a moral or practical lesson about life; often use animals as the characters • Trickster Heroes – characters who use their cleverness to trick others or teach them a lesson • Skill: Analyzing Cause and Effect • Cause – makes something happen • Effect – what happens

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