1. WARM-UP Pick up handout (SMS ELA 8 Course Fact Sheet)
Take our your signed KEYS and open to your paragraph.
Copy down your HW.

2. Quickwrite
In your spiral notebook, please answer the following prompt in 5 or more sentences! (Make sure you brainstorm a list first.) PROMPT: What are some books you have read that you really enjoyed? Please describe why?

3. A particular type or category
What is a GENRE?
A particular type or category

4. There are genres of music, movies and. . .

5. What is a GENRE? Let’s brainstorm a list of genres in literature:
non-fiction action
fiction drama
horror comedy
sci-fiction fantasy
realistic fiction adventure
mystery biography
sports autobiography
history graphic novel
historical fiction

6. Let’s brainstorm a list of genres in literature:
What is a GENRE?
Let’s brainstorm a list of genres in literature:
Mystery
Non-fiction
Romance
Comedy
Historical fiction
Sports
Horror
Suspense
Drama
Fiction
Action
History
fantasy
Adventure
Graphic novel
Science fiction
Biography
autobiography

7. Vocabulary Word: Genre
Vocabulary Notebook
Vocabulary Word: Genre
Definition:
A type or category
Example(s):
horror
suspense
Graphic Representation:

8. List o’ novels
Our list of novels:

9. List o’ novels
Our list of novels:

10. List o’ novels
Our list of novels:

11. Our list of novels: The Maze Runner I Am Mulalah
List o’ novels
Our list of novels:
The Maze Runner
I Am Mulalah