Directions

2. Directions • Put your name and block at the top of your paper • Number your paper from 1 to 7 • I will show you a book cover and read you a summary of what happens in a book. Please listen, and then write down the title of the book and the genre that book belongs to.

3. Word bank • Realistic fiction • Science fiction • mystery • Non-fiction • Poetry • Fantasy • Historical fiction

4. #1 Midnighters by Scott Westerfeld A few nights after Jessica Day arrives in Bixby, Oklahoma, she wakes up at midnight to find the entire world frozen, except for her and a few others who call themselves midnighters. Dark monsters haunt this magical midnight hour – dark monsters with a mysterious interest in Jessica. The question is, why? The Secret Hour is a compelling tale of dark secrets, eerie creatures, courage, destiny, and unexpected peril. (amazon.com)

5. #2 Looking for Alaska by John Green Before. Miles “Pudge” Halter is done with his safe life at home. His whole life has been one big non-event, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave “the Great Perhaps” even more (Francois Rabelais, poet). He heads off to the sometimes crazy and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, self-destructive, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young. She is an event unto herself. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart. Then. . . . After. Nothing is ever the same. (amazon.com)

6. #3 The Invention of Hugo Cabretby Brian Selznick Orphan, clock keeper, and thief, Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity. But when his world suddenly interlocks with an eccentric, bookish girl and a bitter old man who runs a toy booth in the station, Hugo's undercover life, and his most precious secret, are put in jeopardy. A cryptic drawing, a treasured notebook, a stolen key, a mechanical man, and a hidden message from Hugo's dead father form the backbone of this intricate, tender, and spellbinding story. (amazon.com)

7. #4 Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson Fever 1793 is based on an actual epidemic of yellow fever in Philadelphia that wiped out 5,000 people--or 10 percent of the city's population--in three months. In the foreground of this story is 16-year-old Mattie Cook, whose mother and grandfather own a popular coffee house on High Street. Mattie's comfortable and interesting life is shattered by the epidemic, as her mother is felled and the girl and her grandfather must flee for their lives. Later, after much hardship and terror, they return to the deserted town to find their former cook, a freed slave, working with the African Free Society, an actual group who undertook to visit and assist the sick and saved many lives. As first frost arrives and the epidemic ends, Mattie's sufferings have changed her from a willful child to a strong, capable young woman able to manage her family's business on her own. (amazon.com)

8. #5 Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose On March 2, 1955, an impassioned teenager, fed up with the daily injustices of Jim Crow segregation, refused to give her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Instead of being celebrated as Rosa Parks would be just nine months later, fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin found herself shunned by her classmates and dismissed by community leaders. Undaunted, a year later she dared to challenge segregation again as a key plaintiff in Browder v. Gayle, the landmark case that struck down the segregation laws of Montgomery and swept away the legal underpinnings of the Jim Crow South. Based on extensive interviews with Claudette Colvin and many others, Phillip Hoose presents the first in-depth account of an important yet largely unknown civil rights figure, skillfully weaving her dramatic story into the fabric of the historic Montgomery bus boycott and court case that would change the course of American history. (amazon.com)

9. #6 Make Lemonade by Virginia Euwer Wolff ViginiaEuwer Wolff's groundbreaking novel, written in free verse, tells the story of fourteen-year-old LaVaughn, who is determined to go to college--she just needs the money to get there. When she answers a babysitting ad, LaVaughn meets Jolly, a seventeen-year-old single mother with two kids by different fathers. As she helps Jolly make lemonade out of the lemons her life has given her, LaVaughn learns some lessons outside the classroom. (amazon.com)

10. #7 Feed by M. T. Anderson For Titus and his friends, it started out like any ordinary trip to the moon - a chance to party during spring break and play with some stupid low-grav at the Ricochet Lounge. But that was before the crazy hacker caused all their feeds to malfunction, sending them to the hospital to lie around with nothing inside their heads for days. And it was before Titus met Violet, a beautiful, brainy teenage girl who has decided to fight the feed and its omnipresent ability to categorize human thoughts and desires. (amazon.com)

11. Wait! Think about this! Remember, we learned there are 7 MAIN genres of literature. I told you which we would focus on. For today’s formative, you should have used all 7 of those genres as an answer. You should have used each one only once. If you have any doubles or you have made up a genre you should go back for a second and rethink your answer. The books we used were: Midnighters Looking for Alaska The Invention of Hugo Cabret Fever 1793 Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice Make Lemonade Feed Make sure you wrote down the title and genre. That was part of the directions!

12. Answer key • Fantasy • Realistic Fiction • Mystery • Historical Fiction • Non-Fiction • Poetry • Science Fiction