Intro Genre Lesson includes Fiction Subgenre

Genre

A category for literature (or movies or art or music)

What makes different genres...well... different?

Different genres have different styles -like music.

Genre and Sub Genre

Big categories (genres) like Rock are divided into sub categories according to their styles.

Movies have different genres

Watch the video clip - pay attention to the green trailer right before the clip - see how many genres you can identify the re-edited movie clips.  

Multiple Select

Which genre was NOT in the trailers?

• Comedy

• Drama

• Romance

• Documentary

Multiple Choice

Fiction stories are always

• true

• made up

• funny

• sad

Multiple Choice

Realistic Fiction might have the following

• Two elves cannot find their father

• Two brothers cannot get along

• Two scientists talk about climate change

• Two soldiers from World War II tell their story

Multiple Choice

The following is a science fiction plot

• Scientists study the behavior of elephants

• Scientists clone elephants with mammoths and bring prehistoric animals to life

• Two elephants eat lunch at the beach

• A girl adopts an sick elephant and nurses her back to life.

Multiple Choice

The following movie is NOT a fantasy

• Harry Potter

• Lord of the Rings

• Avengers Age of Ultron

• Michael Jordan's The Last Dance