Genre & Setting

Which is the best definition of fiction?

• A story that comes from the author's imagination.
• A story that comes from real life. 
• A story that takes place in space. 
• A story the is from the newspaper.

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

A story that is not true but could have happened

• Science Fiction

• Realistic Fiction

• Fantasy

• Historical Fiction

A fictional (untrue) story that is set during a time in our past such as during the Civil War, etc

• Realistic Fiction

• Science Fiction

• Historical Fiction

• Nonfiction/Informational

Stories with magic, monsters, superpowers, or other things that do not exist in reality.

• Fantasy

• Realistic Fiction

• Expository

• Science Fiction

Stories with aliens, advanced technology, or futuristic weapons.

• Fantasy

• Realistic Fiction

• Science Fiction

• Informational Text

"Genre" means:

• category

• story

• author

• character

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

A Dystopia is created by an apocolyptic event and _______.

• an oppressive society with a lot of governmental control
• a society that allows a lot of freedon
• a natural disaster
• a virus outbreak

The supply ship was scheduled to arrive within the hour, and it would be just in time. The Mars colony was successful, but the farmers had still not mastered the art of teasing crops from the iron-rich, red soil. Most of the settlers relied on the dried food brought by the supply ship. It had been so long that most families had been subsisting on rice and the few skinny ears of corn they had managed to grow.

• realistic fiction

• science fiction

• historical fiction

• fantasy

Genres include: biography, reference, autobiography, informational, newspaper.

• Fiction

• Nonfiction

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Select all the things that can be part of a Science Fiction book.

• Futuristic Setting

• advanced technology

• extra terrestrials

  (aliens)

• set in the past