This is the fourth and final post in the lesson series on identifying genres. You can find the first three here, here, and here.
This was a hard lesson to plan because I had to resist the temptation of including a discussion on post-apocalyptic worlds. I thought the five lessons had given them the foundational thinking skills to explore that on their own. I was also, to be more honest, pressed for time. I made a note on my calendar for 6 weeks later to ask them what themes are typical in dystopian novels. Perhaps, a short discussion without elaborate slides would do at that point. So, I stuck to the difference between science fiction and dystopia.
This series of lessons helped my students get very comfortable with identifying genres. I also included genre identification questions in the subsequent assessment. They did very well. Even when they got the answer wrong sometimes, their thinking was in the right direction. That was the aim of all the hours of copy-pasting book covers and blurbs for over a month. If you’d like to see my assessment, let me know!
More importantly, however, the book blurbs and the discussions that followed served as excellent book talks. After each lesson, I saw students quietly picking up many of the books on the slides. I pretended not to look, of course.
Here are this week’s slides in PPTX and PDF format:
And, as promised, here are the PPTX and PDF files with all the slides!
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