What is a genre?
A genre is basically another name for a category. We can categorize many different things, including books.
When we think about books, we usually think about two basic categories or genres - Fiction and Non-Fiction. From there, we can categorize books even further into more specific genres.
In this unit, we will be learning about fiction genres. We will be focused on the following fiction genres:
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Directions: As a class we will be working on creating a Genre Video, showcasing different fiction genres.
First, we will be finding characteristics of each genre by participating in a "Genre Book Swap." Each table will have a pile of five books on it. Each of these books will be from the same genre. You will first identify the genre the books belong in and then you will use the cover and the summary of the book to pick out keywords or characteristics of that genre. For example, keywords for the horror genre might be "ghost" or "scary."
After completing the genre book swap, we will be working on collecting the information for our videos using the "Genre Video" document.
After all of the data is collected, we will begin creating our class video.