Year 7 Fantasy Project Week 1 Day One An Introduction to Genre Text Types In your previous work pack, you were looking at poetry. Now, we’re moving onto a different type of text. How many different types of text can you list? Eg. magazines, etc. Text Types Some you could How many have named… did you Magazines manage to Letters get? Articles Blogs Diaries Poems Novels/Books Short Stories Key Terms Genre: Can you Today, we are going to be looking at A _____ of literature or other art work out different genres and the conventions form. Each genre can be grouped what might associated with them. together because they have go in these things in ________. gaps? First, we need to understand what these terms mean… Convention: A typical _____. Think back to the ‘Gothic’ work that we did at the beginning of this year. We looked at a genre and its conventions. Therefore, each genre has conventions that you expect to appear. Key Terms Genre: Can you Today, we are going to be looking at A type of literature or other art work out different genres and the conventions form. Each genre can be grouped what might associated with them. together because they have go in these things in common. gaps? First, we need to understand what these terms mean… Convention: A typical feature. Think back to the ‘Gothic’ work that we did at the beginning of this year. We looked at a genre and its conventions. Therefore, each genre has conventions that you expect to appear. Research these genres online if you Genres need some help! COMEDY MYSTERY ADVENTURE What does this genre include? What does this genre include? What does this genre include? How does it want you to feel? How does it want you to feel? How does it want you to feel? You could research the genres online Genres if you need some help! HORROR ROMANCE SCIENCE-FICTION What does this genre include? What does this genre include? What does this genre include? How does it want you to feel? How does it want you to feel? How does it want you to feel? Day Two Genres and Conventions Genres For each of these snapshots, can you work out the genre? How many conventions can you spot? Write a sentence for each picture in the style of that genre. 2. Skyward by Brandon 3. Gangsta Granny by Sanderson David Walliams Genres The surface was still brighter “I hate spending time with than I’d imagined. Our planet, Granny,” protested Ben. Detritus, was protected by “Her TV doesn’t work, all several enormous layers of she wants to do is play 1. Five on a Treasure Now, let’s look at some ancient space debris. Junk Scrabble and she stinks of written pieces and do Island by Enid Blyton the same. that was way up high, outside cabbage!” "You know, I really think that Which genre are they? the air, in space. Wrecked “In fairness to the boy she would solve our difficulty, if space stations, massive metal does stink of cabbage,” What are the we telephone to your Aunt conventions that you shields, old chunks of metal agreed Mum, as she can spot? and arrange for the children big as mountains—there were applied some last minute to go there.” many layers of it, kind of like What is the effect on lip-liner. the reader? The children began to feel broken shells around the “You’re not helping, wife,” rather excited. It would be planet. muttered Dad. “At worst fun to go to a place they We hadn’t built any of that. my mother has a very slight had never been to before, We’d crashed on this planet odour of boiled and stay with an unknown when my grandmother was a vegetables.” Challenge: Are they cousin. girl, and this stuff had been “Can’t I come with you?” successful in making you "Are there cliffs and rocks ancient then. Still, some of it pleaded Ben. “I love ball- feel the way that they and sands there?" asked worked. whatsit dancing,” he lied. want you to feel? Anne. "Is it a nice place?" “The Krell live up there?” I “It’s called ballroom "I don't remember it very asked. “Beyond the debris dancing,” corrected Dad. Hint: Does the ‘comedy’ well," said Daddy. "But I feel field?” “And you don’t love it. You extract succeed in making sure it's an exciting kind of “Yes,” Father said. “They fly said, and I quote, ‘I would you feel amused? place. Anyway, you'll love it! down through the gaps in the rather eat my own bogeys It's called Kirrin Bay.” layers to attack.” than watch that rubbish’.” Genres - Answers 1. Five on a Treasure 2. Skyward by Brandon 3. Gangsta Granny by Island by Enid Blyton Sanderson David Walliams This extract appears to be This extract is from a from an adventure book as science fiction text as it This extract appears to be it mentions visiting an has the setting of a comedy because of the unknown place. It also hints different planet. It also quick-paced that the children will be mentions different types conversation between allowed to go on this of advanced technology the family members. Their adventure by themselves. and hints at the possibility unexpected responses, Therefore, it is successful in of aliens – ‘the Krell’.I like when the mother making the reader feel think that this text makes agrees with the son, excited for the children as the reader feel nervous make the reader feel they’re about to explore as it seems like an unsafe amused. somewhere new. setting. Genres Which is your favourite genre? Why? Make sure to talk about conventions in your answer! Day Three Genre Writing Genres INSTRUMENTAL 1 Listen to these different instrumentals and match them to any https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV3uc0WYU-I genre that we’ve been looking at. INSTRUMENTAL 2 Explain why that piece of music fits with that genre. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxIoR3HbJQo There are no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ answers. This is your INSTRUMENTAL 3 opinion so have fun with it! Just make sure that you explain your ideas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmS4x331fz4 Key Words Pace Rhythm Pitch Dynamics (loud/quiet) Planning 1. Choose a genre. 2. Brainstorm how this picture could be the starting point for that type of story. 3. Develop your ideas into a clear plan by using as many different conventions as you can. Have a clear beginning, middle and end. For example, if you chose the science fiction genre, would aliens suddenly appear and disrupt the picnic? If so, how? Why? How would this progress into a story? Writing 1. Write a key scene from your plan. 2. Label your writing with the conventions that you’ve used. 3. Annotate with how you’re trying to make your reader feel and why. Check! If you’ve been successful, you should be able to fill in the blanks for your work! If you can’t quite fill in the blanks, improve your work and come back to it. I have written a story that is from the ____ genre. You can tell because I have included the conventions of ____ and ___. I made sure that my readers would feel _____ by _________. I do this in the line where it says ‘____________________’. This line creates an effect of ____. Day Four Fantasy Fantasy We’ve been looking at genres in general. Now, we’re going to focus on the fantasy genre! Fantasy is a genre of literature that features magical and supernatural elements that do not exist in the real world. Can you already think of some conventions of this genre? Conventions Some conventions of the fantasy genre: - Magic - Supernatural events - Journeys and quests - Unexpected hero - Powerful villain - Magical creatures - Fantasy worlds and impressive settings - Often set in the past or an imagined time Do we believe it? Magical Dragons Fairies Most items Least believable and Elves believable Unexplored Fate or Magic Portals to kingdoms destiny other worlds Rank these features of fantasy on a scale from most believable to least believable. If a friend told you that they had seen a dragon, how likely is it that you would believe them? Why read fantasy? Why do people read fantasy if it is so unlike real life? Write a paragraph that answers this question. Consider why different people might read fantasy. Challenge: How could writers or artists use this genre to criticise our real world? Reading Fantasy - Answers Some people read fantasy as a Some people read fantasy form of escapism – anything for entertainment. It offers can happen in a fantasy world new, exciting possibilities and and there are no ‘real world’ exhilarating quests. restrictions. Challenge: Some people read fantasy to Some people read fantasy analyse how a fantastical world is different to our own. In some ways, for education. Fantasy allows it might be better. In some ways, it us to experience places, might be worse. Writers or artists cultures and lives we might can use this genre to point out what is ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ about our otherwise never visit or know. world. Why fantasy? 1. 2. 3. a) What is most interesting about these ‘fantasy’ art pieces? b) Would people look at them for escapism, entertainment or education? c) Challenge: Could you argue that each picture has more than one appeal? Day Five Low vs. High Fantasy Types of Fantasy Now that we understand some of the conventions of the fantasy genre, we are going to look at the difference between ‘high’ and ‘low’ fantasy.