1. Fiction and Nonfiction
Nine Weeks Test Review
Fiction and Nonfiction

2. Nonfiction
Nonfiction is prose that presents information about real people, events, or ideas.
The author of a nonfiction work may include opinions or impressions along with facts.
Forms include speeches, articles, news reports, essays, and biographies.
The author’s purpose is to persuade, inform, or entertain.

3. Informational Texts Textual elements
Thesis or controlling idea: The main idea that the writer conveys.
Identifying the thesis, or controlling idea, can help you find the author’s specific purpose for writing.
Support: Details that help develop the writer’s thesis, or controlling idea. As you read, take note that some details are most important to the thesis, while others are less important.
Elaboration: Ideas and details that help build on the controlling idea being presented.
Organizational structures: Headings, formatting, quotations, and graphics that enhance the main idea

4. Fiction
Fiction is prose that tells a story from the author’s imagination. The individuals who take part n the story are characters. They experience a series of related events called the plot. The plot begins with a conflict, or problem; rises to a climax, or a point of great intensity; and ends with a resolution, or conclusion.
Types of fiction include short stories, novellas, and novels.
The author’s purpose is to entertain.

5. Additional literary elements
Diction: author’s choice of words
Foreshadowing: hints of what is to come
Imagery: taste, touch, smell, hear see details
Irony: difference between appearance and reality. The three types include verbal, dramatic, and situational irony.
Setting: time and place of the story
Simile: uses like or as for comparison
Metaphor: a direct comparison—one thing is another.

6. Background Information for cold read fiction
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
You Tube: Real Footage Atomic Bomb; Little Boy Atom Bomb Hiroshima
Author: Ray Bradbury. He is the author of “The Pedestrian” and Fahrenheit He wrote a story about the effects using atomic bombs. During the Cold War between Russia and the United States, people were concerned that Russia would bomb us using the atomic bomb. People built and supplied bomb shelters I hope of surviving the blast.
Students also had bomb drills at school.
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7. Skills you will need
You will be asked to infer. That means that you will draw a reasonable conclusion based on details from the story.
You will be asked to identify the main purpose of a paragraph or passage.
You will need to identify tone and mood.
You will be asked to identify the importance of setting.
You will be asked to write two short answer reading responses. Remember to always answer the question asked. Write a strong topic sentence. Follow it with evidence from the text. Use one of our analysis stems to explain your answer.

8. Nonfiction Skills You will be asked to identify the thesis.
You will asked to know the difference between fact and opinion.
You need to know what text features are.
You will need to identify the characteristics of a feature article.

9. Let’s Practice “The Pedestrian”
How could you describe the atmosphere established in the opening paragraphs of the story?
What does Mead’s “brightly lit house” tell us about him?
In what ways is the city like a graveyard?
How do you know that this society does not value writers?
Describe what life is like in Mead’s town.
What is the author’s purpose for including the police car that no one is driving?
Why is Mead arrested?
What is his punishment to be? Why?
How is the repetition of the word “empty” particularly ominous at the end of the story?

10. Final Thoughts Be an active reader! Annotate.
Be a good test taker. Choose the best answer for the question.
Use a dictionary!!!!!
For the SARs, answer the question asked.
Now you are ready for your nine weeks test. Good Luck!