1. Warm Up Write the genre and subgenre for each of the five items.
Explain how you know your answer.
You will have one minute to complete each item.

2. 1 “Hansel and Gretel” Retold by Ruth Bevel
The story of a young girl and boy who get lost in the woods and stumble upon a gingerbread house. They eat a bunch of it, until they find out it’s a magical witch’s house. She enslaves them and cages them, feeding them candy to fatten them up and eat them.

3. Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney2
Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
In his first year of middle school, the main character Greg Heffley deals with “cooties,” learning to wrestle, Halloween, acting in the school play, and other problems that many middle school students face.

4. 3
Your History Textbook
Your history textbook contains much of the known history of civilization.
Write the genre and subgenre on your paper.

5. 4 The Watsons Go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis
It is the fictional story of an African American family living in Flint, Michigan who go to their grandmother's home in Birmingham, Alabama in the year The story is told around the th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, an actual event in history.

6. “Going, Going ... Green!” By Angela Gaimari5
“Going, Going ... Green!” By Angela Gaimari
In this essay, Gaimari tries to convince people to do small things to help the environment. She gives readers many suggestions on how to live more eco-friendly and asks readers to make the change.