1. What is the Horror Genre?

2. Academic Voc: record
Author’s Purpose: inform, persuade, entertain, or combo
Literary Criticism: analyze literature (i.e., define genre, analyze structure of a text, analyze author’s technique)
Critical Voc: record
Intensify: make something grow in strength
Justify: prove something is right
Parallel: comparable; side by side
Quest: search

3. Sharon A. Russell
Author’s Purpose: The author’s purpose is to define the horror genre by looking at some characteristics of horror stories and films.
Our goals:
Take notes without plagiarizing
Write summary (10 lines)
Take multiple choice assessment (1-10)

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Topic:
EQ:
Summary:

5. 1-11 12-32 Main Idea -more than just monsters.
Topic: What is the horror genre?
EQ: What are the key ideas?
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Ideas
Main Idea
-more than just monsters.
-Various ways to define horror.
1-11
12-32
Suspense
-Knowing the horror genre, the reader feels even more suspense.
-We are looking for something bad to happen.
Summary:

6. 33-50 51-69 Plot -Reader’s knowledge is controlled and surprises occur
Topic: What is the horror genre?
EQ: What are the key ideas?
Lines
Ideas
Plot
-Reader’s knowledge is controlled and surprises occur
Setting:-expectation certain settings (old house, etc.)
33-50
51-69
Structure
-parallel world (Oz)
-supernatural (ghost)
-logical explan. (squirrels)
Summary:

7. 70-83 84-92 Conflict -Internal threat (insanity)
Topic: What is the horror genre?
EQ: What are the key ideas?
Lines
Ideas
Conflict
-Internal threat (insanity)
-External threat (vampire)
70-83
84-92
Common themes
-good v evil
-danger of knowledge
Summary:

8. Summary
Use your notes to write a summary. Please include title and author when summarizing the article.