IR Genre requirements...

FICTION: (fake, made-up, not real, didn’t happen, fanciful, an invented story…)

A.Realistic contemporary: These kinds of stories could happen today. They are usually set in modern times with recognizable settings. Young adult romance are usually realistic contemporary.

B.Non-realistic (sci-fi and fanstasy): This is a wide and ever-changing genre. If the book relies on fantastical elements (new species , technologies, worlds, etc.), then you probably have a sci-fi or fantasy.

C.Dystopian: A futuristic, imagined world where a central power maintains the illusion of a utopia.

     Alternate: genre in which one or more historical event occurs different from reality.

D. Misc: (Read one from the following):

•classic – we’ll define these as books that have withstood the test of   time (written before 1950)

•historical – set in the past within a particular era, which also plays   a central part in the plot

•western – set in the American West (usu. the late 1800s); good guys,   bad guys, gunfights

•crime/mystery – the central plot device is an unsolved crime or   unexplained event; the protagonist  tries to figure it out

•horror – scary, maybe gory, think Stephen King

NON-FICTION:  a real story that actually happened; or  a real topic or area of study

E. biography, autobiography, memoir – these tell the story of a single   real-life character.

F. topical – a book on a particular subject such as hunting, baseball,   photography, WWII, economic policy in third-world countries,   gardening, the history of cheese, etc.

The following books are off limits for this course:

•Lord of the Flies
•A Separate Peace
•Animal Farm
•Of Mice and Men
•Huckleberry Finn
•To Kill a Mockingbird
•The Things They Carried
•Things Fall Apart
•The Crucible
•Scarlet Letter
•Their Eyes Were Watching God
••1984
•Handmaid’s Tale
•Frankenstein
•Night
•Great Gatsby
•Pride and Prejudice
•Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
•Raisin in the Sun
•Gatsby
•Invisible Man
•The Bell Jar
•Jane Eyre
•McTeague
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