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Fabulous Fiction:  Fantasy, Folktales, Realistic & Historical

September 8, 2014 – September 19, 2014

Instructions:  
·       Using your Treasures textbooks, find four stories that fall into the 4 categories listed above (fantasy, folktale, realistic, historical).  You will need to use the TABLE OF CONTENTS.  In your Reader’s Notebook, record each story title, page and genre.  Read 1 of those stories on Monday the 8th, 1 on Tuesday the 9th, 1 on Wednesday the 10th and 1 on Thursday the 11th.  While you read, be thinking and writing notes about the brochure criteria listed below.
·       On Friday the 12th, fill in a Venn diagram on your fantasy/folktale stories.
·       On Monday the 15th, fill in a Venn diagram on your realistic/historical fiction stories.
·       On Tuesday the 16th, choose 1 of your 4 stories and make a tri-fold brochure.
·       In order to make a score of 4, your brochure must meet the following standards:

1.       Identify the unique features of these 3“Literary Fiction  Genres: Fantasy, Folktales, Realistic & Historical Fiction.

2.       oExplain the importance of characters in literary genres .

3.       oProvide examples of the impact sensory language has in each of these genres.

4.       oHelp the reader understand the importance of theme in these forms of literary text.

·       I will provide you with a grading rubric for the brochure on Tuesday the 16th.

 
Language Arts First Nine weeks Topics
Weeks I & II
Structural Patterns & Features of Literary Gentres (38 days)
Fictional Texts:  Fantasy & Folktales
Writing Reader’s Response Letters

 Week III
Realistic Fiction
Personal Narratives

Week IV
Historical Fiction
Personal Narratives

 Weeks V & VI
Structural Patterns & Features of Expository Genres (40 days)
Non-fiction:  Biography
Personal Narratives

Weeks VII & VIII
Non-fiction:   Information Texts
Research:  Future Jobs / Careers

Weeks IX & X
Non-fiction:  Procedural Texts
Research:  Future Jobs / Careers

 

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