Elements of Literary Nonfiction Texts
Elements of Literary Nonfiction Texts
Objectives
Students will examine the use of literary elements in literary nonfiction. Students will:
- identify elements of fiction in literary nonfiction texts.
- compare/contrast fiction and literary nonfiction.
- evaluate the relationships between the major components of a text. <
Essential Questions
How do strategic readers create meaning from informational and literary text?
How does interaction with text provoke thinking and response?
What is this text really about?
- How do strategic readers create meaning from informational and literary text?
- What is this text really about?
- How does interaction with text provoke thinking and response?
- How do readers know what to believe in what they read, hear, and view?
Vocabulary
- Characterization: The method an author uses to reveal characters and their various personalities.
- Literary Elements: The essential techniques used in literature (e.g., characterization, setting, plot, theme).
- Rising Action: The part of a story where the plot becomes increasingly complicated. Rising action leads up to the climax, or turning point.
- Plot: The structure of a story. The sequence in which the author arranges events in a story. The structure often includes the rising action, the climax, the falling action, and the resolution. The plot may have a protagonist who is opposed by an antagonist, creating what is called conflict.
- Resolution: The portion of a story following the climax, in which the conflict is resolved.
- Setting: The time and place in which a story unfolds.
- Theme: A topic of discussion or writing; a major idea broad enough to cover the entire scope of a literary work.
- Climax: The turning point in a narrative, the moment when the conflict is at its most intense. Typically, the structure of stories, novels, and plays is one of rising action, in which tension builds to the climax.
- Conflict/Problem: A struggle or clash between opposing characters, forces, or emotions.
Duration
90–135 minutes/2–3 class periods
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Materials
- Teachers may substitute other texts to provide a range of reading and level of text complexity.
- a response journal for each student <
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Final 05/03/2013