On this day, students began the next unit for the upcoming unit: genre. Through this unit, the students should be able to answer the questions:
- What defines a genre?
- How do genres establish expectations?
- How do filmmakers use those expectations?
As for now, let's focus on today's topic of discussion. Through the class period, students defined the term genre as to what it pertains and what it includes. The next goal students attained through the period is the knowledge on how to apply genres as the function for a narrative text. Obviously, the focus of this next unit will be narrative writing where the students will eventually be writing a story. A story can be both fiction and nonfiction as both involve characters and conflict. Stories are designed to interest a reader, but genres are what define that reader's interests. Whether a reader enjoys the thrill of a mystery or the shaking fear of a horror film. Genres like these determine and categorize the likes of a reader.
Next in class, the students used a quote from, author of The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald. He stated, "Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures." With a little revision, the class determined that by switching the word personality with the word genre, we found an accurate definition of genre. The revised sentence states, "Genres are an unbroken series of successful actions." The concept behind this change pertains to the idea that genres are categories that have successfully been reintroduced into films and novels alike. But these genres, when pertaining to action, differ and create this unbroken series where the creativity of a writer or filmmaker never cease.
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