What you need for class today

1. What you need for class today • PCR book • Pen or pencil • Yellow response journal • Reading Workshop folder • 2012/2013 Reading Record (white paper) Does someone have the class journal?

2. READING WORKSHOP #16 January 8, 2013 Mini-Lesson on Genres (Part One)

3. What to do before the mini-lesson: Update your weekly reading record (yellow paper in Reading Workshop folder). --Change the date to January 8, 2013. --Under the comment section, describe what you have accomplished as a reader since December 17, three weeks ago. --Today’s mini-lesson is “genres”.

4. Set up your yellow response journal: January 8, 2013—A Mini-Lesson on Genres You will be taking a few notes from the next slides. You will be answering a TICKET OUT. You also may want to update your 2012/2013 Reading Record (white paper) with more precise genre labels.

5. Read aloud this slide and record 2 pieces of information in your journal. What is a “genre?” There are many kinds of art —music, painting, sculpture, and literature are a few examples of an art. A genre is a particular kind of art according to the criteria of that form. In literature, genres are vague categories with no fixed boundaries. Genres are formed by sets of common characteristics. Genreis originally a French word meaning "kind", "sort" or "type“.

6. Create this chart in your journal.

7. Read aloud this slide and record 2 pieces of information in your journal. What is a “genre?” • Genres are often divided into sub-genres. In literature, for instance, can be organized according to the "poetic genres" and the "prose genres". • Poetrymight be subdivided into epic, lyric, and dramatic, while prose might be subdivided into fiction and non-fiction. Further subdivisions of dramatic poetry, for instance, might include comedy, tragedy, melodrama, and so forth. • This dividing into subgenres can continue: "comedy" has its own genres, for example, including farce, comedy of manners, burlesque, and satire.

8. The next 2 slides offer a list of genres for prose works of fiction and nonfiction. As you read today, consider what is the genre of your PCR text. NOTE: “Realistic fiction” does not appear on this list. It’s a genre sometimes used by librarians but not one used by students of literature.

9. Genres of novels Review this slide before writing the TICKET OUT.

10. Genres of nonfiction Review this slide before writing the TICKET OUT.

11. TICKET OUT: What is the genre of your PCR text? Using the next slide, give two reasons to support your choice of a genre for the book you are reading. Write this TICKET OUT in your yellow response journal.

12. Genre features, aspects, or characteristics—use the correct terms!! FICTION NONFICTION Audience Purpose Subjects Time period and location/setting Key events/conflicts Messages, lessons, emotions Narration or narrative style Text structure features (TSF) • Audience • Purpose • Characters • Plot/conflicts • Setting • Theme or message • Narration or narrative style Students need this slide to write today’s TICKET OUT.

13. HOMEWORK: Check Mr. Beyer’s Website ALL CLASSES—A grammar assignment for Wednesday, January 9 is posted on the website. ALL CLASSES (except Period 7) have Reading Minutes scheduled for the remainder of the week. PERIOD 5 has a reading assignment (2 articles) that we will be discussing this week. If the TICKET OUT is not finished at the end of class, it will become a TICKET IN for tomorrow, January 9th. ALL CLASSES should have their PCR books available for class this week as we continue the discussion of genres.

14. Genre Mini-Lesson Part Two—after January 8th January 8th’s lesson ends here.

15. Identify the five common purposes in writing. TO INSPIRE—emotions/feelings “to breathe into” TO PERSUADE--opinions TO DESCRIBE—images that appeal to the senses TO INSTRUCT OR INFORM--facts TO ENTERTAIN—what pleases an audience

16. 1. ______ can be divided into ______ large categories. A. nonfiction—three B. prose—two C. poetry—many D. fiction--five 2. Prose is the “ordinary” form of communication. Another meaning for the adjective “ordinary” is _____. • entertaining B. irregular C. daily D. organized 3. Nonfiction and fiction are the two large categories or _____ of prose . • audiences B. purposes C. subjects D. genres 4. ______ is an obvious “non-example” of _______. A. poetry—prose B. paragraphs—prose C. prose—fiction and nonfiction D. poetry—verse

17. 1. ______ can be divided into ______ large categories. A. nonfiction—three B. prose—two C. poetry—many D. fiction--five 2. Prose is the “ordinary” form of communication. Another meaning for the adjective “ordinary” is _____. • entertaining B. irregular C. daily D. organized 3. Nonfiction and fiction are the two large categories or _____ of prose . • audiences B. purposes C. subjects D. genres 4. ______ is an obvious “non-example” of _______. A. poetry—prose B. paragraphs—prose C. prose—fiction and nonfiction D. poetry—verse

19. Fiction? Nonfiction? Prose? Poetry? Here are somefamiliar genres we’veencounteredthisyear in PCR reading or thatwe’vediscussedthisyear. Some, not all, are defined in Prentice-Hall on pages R5 to R11.

20. Make this chart in your yellow response journal under the date January 14, 2013. Group members: ____________________________________ LAPD: ____

21. T o be filled out by group. Multiple participants required. Remember to write all titles correctly. Group members: ____________________________________ LAPD: ____