Genre

Identify the subgenre of the book below by reading description:

Description: Percy Jackson has just discovered that he’s the son of a Greek god. With the help of his friends, a satyr and a daughter of the goddess Athena, he must rescue Zeus’s master lightning bolt while trying to fight off the mythical creatures determined to keep him from succeeding.

• fantasy

• realistic fiction

• historical fiction

• mystery

Identify the subgenre of the book below by reading description:

Description: Greg Heffley has just started middle school.

Everyone is taller than he is, and he is an immediate social outcast. Greg tries to navigate the wrestling team, the school play, and losing his best friend, all in the same school-year.

• fantasy

• historical fiction

• realistic fiction

• mystery

Identify the subgenre of the book below by reading description:

Description:At the beginning of World War II, the Nazis begin to take away the Jews of Copenhagen, Denmark. Annemarie Johansen’s family takes in her best friend, Ellen Rosen, and helps smuggle Ellen and her family to safety in Sweden.

• fantasy

• historical fiction

• mystery

• realistic fiction

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Stories that come from the author's imagination are

• nonfiction

• fiction

• poetry

• folklore

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.K.5

Stories with aliens, the distant future, or advanced technology fall into the genre of

• historical fiction

• science fiction

• realistic fiction

• fantasy

A story that could have happened, but didn't, falls into the genre of

• historical fiction

• science fiction

• fantasy

• realistic fiction

Fever 1793 is based on a time when a sickness, known as Yellow Fever, had taken hold in Philadelphia during 1793. What genre is this book an example of?

• Biography

• Realistic Fiction

• Science Fiction

• Historical Fiction

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

What genre is Diary of a Wimpy Kid?

• Realistic Fiction

• Autobiography

• Science Fiction

• Historical Fiction

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.1

Which is a common convention in the fantasy subgenre?

• a school setting

• heroes on a quest

• a dystopian setting

• a historical setting

Which is a common convention of science fiction writing?

• mythical creatures

• set in a historical time period

• oppressive government

• based on real people or events