ELA37
Fiction/Non Fiction
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“Fiction” refers to literature conceived by the imagination. The main goal of narrative text is to tell a story. Narrative text includes a beginning, middle and end, characters, storyline or conflict, and setting. “Nonfiction” refers to literature built on fact. It is the most extensive category of literature. The main purpose of this text is to describe or provide information.
HOW TO:
Fiction genres are dramas, mysteries, romance, science fiction, fantasy, chick flicks, and crime thrillers. Examples of classic fiction include To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, 1984 by George Orwell and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. Nonfiction has many categories such as, newspaper stories, editorials, personal accounts, journal articles, textbooks and legal documents. Other examples of non-fiction writing are writing about biography, business, cooking, health and fitness, pets, crafts, home decorating, languages, travel, home improvement, religion, art and music, history, self-help, true crime, science and humor. Informational text is characteristically found in magazines, science or history books, autobiographies, and instruction manuals. They are written in way that helps the reader to easily locate vital information, and understand the main topic. The authors accomplish this by providing headers over particular sections, bold powerful vocabulary, and use graphic depictions with captions.
Everyday Use:
Fiction and Non-fiction are used every day in the books you read, movies and TV shows you watch, and even songs you listen to.
Lyrics
In this world believe nothing of what you hear
Half of what you know
Everything that you see
Mr. logically Jonny apple-seed
Jack and Jill going up the hill
To catch a web and every chance they prevail
Got us all like wow
Power ranger, ninja turtles
Saved the world now
Still like how because its fiction
All knowing its fiction
Kids minds are conflicted
Not knowing its scripted
Can you envision stories of Dr. Seuss
Providing in common truth
Thinking about yams and your moms
Serving up green eggs and ham
Aww man out or you go
Stay in school put in your dues
Help value your roles
Learn from your teacher
On how to become a doctor, pastor
Or a lawyer or a cop
Whatever don’t let it stop
Believe and you should achieve
In time you learn to grind
Every day you grow knowledge
Never let it demolish
Its taking you from your dreams
And giving up on your vision
In a life time
Now that’s non fiction
Standards
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.8.9 — Analyze a case in which two or more texts provide conflicting information on the same topic and identify where the texts disagree on matters of fact or interpretation.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.7.9 — Compare and contrast a fictional portrayal of a time, place, or character and a historical account of the same period as a means of understanding how authors of fiction use or alter history.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.7.9 — Analyze how two or more authors writing about the same topic shape their presentations of key information by emphasizing different evidence or advancing different interpretations of facts.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.8.9 — Analyze how a modern work of fiction draws on themes, patterns of events, or character types from myths, traditional stories, or religious works such as the Bible, including describing how the material is rendered new.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.8.7 — Analyze the extent to which a filmed or live production of a story or drama stays faithful to or departs from the text or script, evaluating the choices made by the director or actors.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.7.9.A — Apply grade 7 Reading standards to literature (e.g., "Compare and contrast a fictional portrayal of a time, place, or character and a historical account of the same period as a means of understanding how authors of fiction use or alter history").
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.8.9.A — Apply grade 8 Reading standards to literature (e.g., "Analyze how a modern work of fiction draws on themes, patterns of events, or character types from myths, traditional stories, or religious works such as the Bible, including describing how the material is rendered new").