Learning Activity Sheet: I. Objective
Learning Activity Sheet: I. Objective
Learning Activity Sheet: I. Objective
Date:
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21 Century Literary Genres Week: 5 Learning Sheet: 2
I. OBJECTIVE
At the end of the lesson, the learners CAN…
Differentiate the various 21st century literary genres and the ones from original genres,
citing their elements, structures and traditions, by:
1.1 Differentiating the 21st century literary genres, and the one’s from original genres
1.2 Describing the characteristics of a given literary piece.
ILLUSTRATED NOVEL
Story through text and illustrated images.
50% of the narrative
The reader must interpret the images to comprehend the story completely.
Textual portions are presented in traditional form.
Some illustrated novels may contain no text at all.
Examples include The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick and
The Arrival by Shaun Tan.
DIGI-FICTION
Triple media literature
Combines three media: book, movie/video and internet website to get the full
story, students must engage in navigation, reading, and viewing in all three
forms.
Patrick Carman’s Skeleton Creek and Anthony Zuiker’s Level 26 are
examples.
GRAPHIC NOVEL
Narrative in comic book format.
Narrative work in which the story in conveyed to the reader using a comic
book.
The term is employed in broadly manner, encompassing non-fiction works
and thematically linked short stories as well as fictional stories across a
number of genres.
Archie Comics by John Goldwater and illustrator, Bob Montana, is a good
example.
FLASH FICTION
Is a style of fictional literature of extreme brevity
There is no widely accepted definition of the length and category. It could
range from word to a thousand.
CREATIVE NON-FICTION
Also known as literary non-fiction or narrative non-fiction
A genre of writing that uses literary styles and techniques to create factually
accurate narratives.
Contrast with other non-fiction such as technical writing or journalism which
is also rooted in accurate fact, but is not primarily written in service to its
craft.
As a genre, creative non-fiction is relatively young and is only beginning to
be scrutinized with same critical analysis given to fiction and poetry.
1000 Gifts by Ann Voscamp and Wind, Sand, and Stars by Antoine de
Saint-Exupery are examples.
SCIENCE FICTION
BLOG
A weblog, a website containing short articles called posts that are change
regularly.
Some blogs are written by one person his or her own opinions, interests and
experiences, while others are written from different people.
TEXT-TALK NOVELS
Blog, emails and IM format narratives
Stories told almost entirely in dialogue simulating social network exchages.
DOODLE FICTION
Literary presentation where the author incorporates doodle writing, drawings
and handwritten graphics in place of the traditional font.
HYPER POETRY
Digital poetry that uses links and hypertext mark-up
It can even involve set words, phrases, lines, etc. that are presented in
variable order but sit on the page much as traditional poetry does, or it can
contain parts of the poem that move and transform.
It is usually found online, through CD-ROM and diskette versions exist. The
earliest examples date to no later than mid – 1980’s.
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1.4 Integration of Learning
Write…
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3 important facts ____________________________________________________
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1 insight about ______________________________________________________
yourself as a learner ______________________________________________________
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