Identify and Analyze Genres

How Do I Identify a Genre?

8th grade

Fiction

• Purpose: Shares a message about life and the world (story telling)

• Characteristics: Main character experiences a conflict that drives the events of the plot. In the resolution the main character changes in some way either good or bad. (Setting, theme, plot)

• Supporting Ideas: Provides lots of description and details about the characters’ actions, feelings, and thoughts. 

  Provides lots of description and detail about the setting

• Organization: There is a central conflict in the text that is intensified by the actions of the characters and setting.

Open Ended

Identify a book or movie that is FICTION:

Poetry

• Purpose: EVOKES EMOTIONS in the reader through the use of figurative language

• Characteristics: Lots figurative language variety of structures unconventional use of punctuation, capitalization

• Supporting Ideas: Provides a lot of implied meaning. The reader will have to infer meaning from the details provided.

• Organization of ideas:

• Stanzas and lines

  Sometimes rhymes

  Narrative poetry- storylike

  Lyrical- descriptive

Open Ended

Identify a POEM that you like

Literary Narrative

• Purpose: shares personal experiences of the narrator with details of the experiences' significance to convey how the narrator changed, grew, or came to a realization

• Characteristics: The narrator experiences a personal change, realization, or growth

• Supporting ideas: Provides personal experiences use of verb tense to indicate movement of time.

  Use of dialogue to show the importance of events conclusion showed realization of decisions made

• Organization: chronological order to show how events occurred

  It May contain a flashback or flash-forward

Open Ended

Identify a book or movie that is Literary Narrative

Drama

• Purpose: tells a story through action and dialogue

• Characteristics: Stage directions and dialogue used to tell the story.

• Supporting ideas:

• Provides interaction with characters through dialogue. Audience must pay attention to the interactions to understand the plot and to infer meaning not explicitly stated in the drama.

• Organization: Acts and scenes organized to move the plot

Open Ended

Identify a Drama that you like

Informative

• Purpose: explains ideas and information about a topic and stresses the significance of the topic

• Characteristics: thesis: specific what and why of the topic being discussed in article evidence: ways the author provides support to back up their topic  

• Supporting Ideas: provides examples provides clear explanations provides details provides reasons provides facts 

• Organization: Comparing and contrasting ideas

  Introducing a problem with possible solutions

  Introducing an effect(s) that has stemmed from a cause(s)

  Sequencing events in order to explain how it happened

Open Ended

Identify a book or article that is Informative

Argumentative

• Purpose: changes minds of the audience by combining the narrator's opinion with support about a topic

• Characteristics: claim: author’s opinion about a topic or issue evidence: ways the author provides support to back up their opinion counter-argument: author recognizes the other side of the issue while pointing out flaws for the other side audience: the group of people the author is trying reach/ convince with their argument

• Supporting ideas: personal anecdotes  background information provides research provides examples to support claim provides counter-claim 

  stresses reasons why change is needed

   provides a call to action    

  
  

• Organization: Includes background, claim, and position

Open Ended

Identify an Argumentative article or text