Identify and Analyze Genres

Purpose: Shares a message about life and the world (story telling)

Characteristics: Main character experiences a conflict that drives the events of the plot. In the resolution the main character changes in some way either good or bad. (Setting, theme, plot)

Supporting Ideas: Provides lots of description and details about the characters’ actions, feelings, and thoughts. 

Provides lots of description and detail about the setting

Organization: There is a central conflict in the text that is intensified by the actions of the characters and setting.

Purpose: EVOKES EMOTIONS in the reader through the use of figurative language

Characteristics: Lots figurative language variety of structures unconventional use of punctuation, capitalization

Supporting Ideas: Provides a lot of implied meaning. The reader will have to infer meaning from the details provided.

Organization of ideas:

Stanzas and lines

Sometimes rhymes

Narrative poetry- storylike

Lyrical- descriptive

Purpose: shares personal experiences of the narrator with details of the experiences' significance to convey how the narrator changed, grew, or came to a realization

Characteristics: The narrator experiences a personal change, realization, or growth

Supporting ideas: Provides personal experiences use of verb tense to indicate movement of time.

Use of dialogue to show the importance of events conclusion showed realization of decisions made

Organization: chronological order to show how events occurred

It May contain a flashback or flash-forward

Purpose: tells a story through action and dialogue

Characteristics: Stage directions and dialogue used to tell the story.

Supporting ideas:

Provides interaction with characters through dialogue. Audience must pay attention to the interactions to understand the plot and to infer meaning not explicitly stated in the drama.

Organization: Acts and scenes organized to move the plot

Purpose: explains ideas and information about a topic and stresses the significance of the topic

Characteristics: thesis: specific what and why of the topic being discussed in article evidence: ways the author provides support to back up their topic  

Supporting Ideas: provides examples provides clear explanations provides details provides reasons provides facts 

Organization: Comparing and contrasting ideas

Introducing a problem with possible solutions

Introducing an effect(s) that has stemmed from a cause(s)

Sequencing events in order to explain how it happened

Purpose: changes minds of the audience by combining the narrator's opinion with support about a topic

Characteristics: claim: author’s opinion about a topic or issue evidence: ways the author provides support to back up their opinion counter-argument: author recognizes the other side of the issue while pointing out flaws for the other side audience: the group of people the author is trying reach/ convince with their argument

Supporting ideas: personal anecdotes  background information provides research provides examples to support claim provides counter-claim 

stresses reasons why change is needed

 provides a call to action    

Organization: Includes background, claim, and position