NF Sub-Genres
What is the Sub-Genre?
"By 1968, it must all have seemed like a dream to Stan Lee. Starting at a job at age 17 in 1940 — one that likely seemed to be just another temporary gig like the many he’d gone through since graduating DeWitt Clinton High School the previous year — he had now progressed, after a 25-year career that encompassed the ups and downs of the comics business, to an extraordinary position."
Biography
What is the Sub-Genre?
"Sergeant Sandra Greeve is fighting in an interstellar war in the distant future and is shot down during a battle. When she wakes up, she discovers that she was rescued by an autonomous spaceship called The Light of Berossus."
Science Fiction
What is the purpose of the thesis?
Answer all parts of the prompt.
Texts compare two things to make a point.
Comparisons
Anything Goes:
1. How do we annotate for characterization?
2. Besides the 4Cs, what can we annotate for theme?
3. What is the setting of a story?
1. SLATE
2. Wise Words
3. Where and When the story takes place
What is the Sub-Genre?
"My husband and I are hoping to buy a home. My husband is a writer finishing a book. It was foreign and delightful and conjured memories of a man who simply wasn’t there. I missed Barack terribly, but I rationalized our situation as I could, understanding that even if we were newlyweds, this interlude was probably for the best."
Memoir/Autobiography
What is the Sub-Genre?
"The story is set in the Confederate States of America during the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861. Gone with the Wind follows the main character, Scarlett, who is part of a wealthy plantation family."
Historical Fiction
What is included in the conclusion?
1. Restate the Thesis
2. "So What" Statement
Personal stories and first-hand accounts are included to strengthen argument.
Anecdote
What are the four steps of legit POE?
1. Annotate the question
2. Bracket the section of the text where the answer can be found
3. Jot your prediction
4. Cross out wrong choices and select the correct one.
What Sub-Genre is this?
Sadly, psychological distress among young people seems to be rising. One study found that rates of depression among a nationally representative sample of US adolescents (aged 12 to 17) increased from 8.5% of young adults to 13.2% between 2005 and 2017. There’s also initial evidence that the coronavirus pandemic is exacerbating this trend in some countries. For example, in a nationwide study from Iceland, adolescents (aged 13–18) reported significantly more symptoms of mental ill health during the pandemic than did their peers before it.
Journalism
What is Sub-Genre?
"Yanko swallowed. He wanted nothing more than to stretch down into the earth with his senses and create a quake that would hurl his tormentor into the harbor for the sharks to munch on. But magic was forbidden in the dueling portion of the exam, and he couldn’t have summoned the necessary concentration, anyway, not with dirt caking the insides of his eyelids. There was a reason even experienced warrior mages had bodyguards."
Fantasy
What is the prompt asking you to do?
"What lesson is taught throughout this text? How is the lesson developed through the text?"
1. Find the theme
2. Explain how the theme is developed (Annotate for the 4Cs)
Provides events from history to strengthen argument.
Historical Context
Figurative Language Blitz. Name all Four!
1. Giving non-living things living characteristics.
2. Comparison using "like" or "as."
3. Comparison not using "like" or "as."
4. Descriptions that appeal to your senses.
1. Personification
2. Simile
3. Metaphor
4. Imagery
What is the Annotation Focus for Journalism?
1. Topic
2. Claim revealed from sources
3. Author's Claim
What is the Annotation Focus for Literary Fiction?
1. External and Internal Conflict
2. Protagonist's journey through life (change and lessons they learn)
3. Theme
What does this prompt require?
"Compare the author’s claim in each text and how they develop them."
1. Find the similarities and/or differences between each author's claim.
2. Name each author's techniques.
The text uses numbers and results from experiments and surveys to support their argument.
Statistics
What do we jot down at the end of each read in a poem?
1st read: Topic and Speaker
2nd read: Literal Meaning
3rd read: Figurative Language, Deeper Meaning, and Theme
What is the Annotation Focus for Biography?
1. External and Internal Conflict
2. Protagonist's journey through life (change and lessons they learn)
3. The Setting's Impact on the person
4. Theme
What is the Annotation Focus for Historical Fiction?
1. Details about the setting
2. Political Climate
3. Attitudes of the people
4. Setting's Impact on the 4Cs
What are the steps to answering this question?
B. Why does the narrator say her “heart hammers” in paragraph 11 of “Excerpt from Under the Permission Tree”? Use two details from the story to support your response.
1. Bracket paragraph 11 and number it as Question B.
2. Jot a note for paragraph 11.
3. Predict what the phrase means based on the paragraph and the sentence.
4. Write the SAR.
First-Person POV
Describe the steps to answering this question:
"How does paragraph 7 contribute the overall claim of the text?"
1. Jot the claim revealed in paragraph 7.
2. Jot the Central idea of the text.
3. Ask yourself, "How does paragraph 7's claim prove/support the Central Idea of the text."