DIRECTIONS: Read the information provided on the righthand side, then watch the videos in order. When you are done, complete the IRWN notes page (don't forget to color!), and then take the quiz to show your understanding. You will be graded on your IRWN pages and your quiz answers.
Add Genre Pages to Your IRWN:DIRECTIONS: You will receive this handout from me the day the homework is assigned. Please, cut, color (yes, required!), and paste (with bottled glue) inside your interactive notebook. Please make sure you add to your Table of Contents also! You should have four pockets and all the genres sorted into the proper pocket when you arrive for class on Friday. I will check each notebook for a grade. Any unfinished or missing notebooks will receive a zero.
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What Is a Genre?Definition from Dictionary.com:
Genre (noun) 1: a kind of literary or artistic work 2: a style of expressing yourself in writing [syn: writing style, literary genre] 3: a class of artistic endeavor having a characteristic form or technique.” Additional Explanation: The two major categories, or genres, are fiction (about things, events, and characters that are not true) and nonfiction (about things, events, and people that are based on fact). In Texas, we recognize Nonfiction as Expository text and Nonfiction as Autobiographies, Biographies, Memoirs, and Narratives. They are separated, and you need to keep that in mind as you look at the examples and categories in the videos because they do not necessarily separate them the way we do. From these two major categories, we can classify even further. For example, fiction can be divided into poetry, drama (plays), or prose. Those categories tell us something about the form of the work. Further, we also classify fiction according to layout and style. There are picture books, which contain words and pictures, novellas or short novels, and short stories, which are much shorter than novellas. Finally, fiction can be classified by content and theme. Here is where we find our common genres: adventure stories, science fiction/fantasy, mystery, horror, romance, realistic fiction, and historical fiction. One thing to keep in mind while reading different texts: genre categories aren’t always clear-cut. You can have a crime/mystery story set in the future (science fiction) or in the past (historical fiction). Source: http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson892/genre-def.pdf Why do we need to stop and identify the genre each time we read?"In order to write appropriately across different genres, we have to develop genre awareness, which is an awareness of the “culture, circumstances, purposes and motives [as well as language forms] that prevail in particular settings” (Paltridge, 2001: 7). The value of such awareness is that it can be transferred to any situation. In academic life, developing genre awareness will therefore help you with both written papers and oral presentations. It can also be applied to other areas of your life (e.g. applications for jobs or postgraduate study).
With genre awareness, we will then be able to enhance our generic competence, which involves the ability to produce the right kind of language forms by understanding what happens in real-world interactions and to use this understanding to participate in different communicative practices (Bhatia, 1993). The importance of generic competence is never negligible since it’s not only what you write (the content), but also how you write and how much you’ve thought about the reader’s perspective that determines success in your writing. In other words, you have to go through the process of understanding what is appropriate before the product can be produced." Source: http://www.ln.edu.hk/eng/genres/ DON'T FORGET TO TAKE THE END OF LESSON QUIZ!Not sure you have this mastered? Practice before you take the quiz with this online Genre Game!
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