1. October 27, 2014 - Introduction to nonfiction and informational text Ho mework: N one Objective I can recognize and define the 5 main types of nonfiction writing. Wa rm Up: T urn in your test corrections in the following order: Test corrections on top, followed by your test answer key, put the actual test on the very bottom. What was the most recent piece of nonfiction writing that you read? Who / what was it about? How could you tell it was nonfiction?

2. What is nonfiction?

3. nonfiction wr iting that is about real people, places and events; mostly based on facts

4. 5 main types of nonfiction biography / autobiography essay informative article interview There are 2 under here

5. biography when someone writes the story of another person's life subject of biography author of biography http://www.listofliteraryagents.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/list-of-literary-agents-book-biog.jpg

6. biography writer is NOT the subject written from 3rd person POV based on information from many sources including books about the subject, the subject's journals and letters, and interviews. sometimes includes details provided by the subject. often include elements from fiction such as characters, setting and plot http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51wSGOJiTVL.jpg

7. biography Matthew Henson was born on August 8, 1866, in Charles County, Maryland, some forty four miles south of Washington. D.C. His parents were poor, free tenant farmers who barely eked a living from the sandy soil. The Civil War had ended the year before Matthew was born, bringing with it great bitterness on the part of former slave-owners. - Jim Haskins Matthew Henson at the Top of the World http://www.matthewhenson.com/2009_JPEGS/henson22_stamp400.jpg What details in the passage tell you about Henson's life or the setting?

8. autobiography a person's account of his or her own life

9. autobiography writer IS the subject autobiographical account written from 1st person POV describes the subject's thoughts, feelings and opinions about his or her own life is based primarily on details that come from the subject's own memories http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1177699128l/726759.jpg

10. autobiography I could not move, would not have time to react. I knew I had nothing to say about it. One blow would break my neck. Whether I lived or died depended on him, on his thinking, on his ideas about me - whether I was worth the bother or not. - Gary Paulsen Woodsong What words let you know that this is from an autobiography rather than a biography? http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5160ChLLCSL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

11. essay a short work of nonfiction that deals with one subject http://www.writeawriting.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/how-to-write-expository-essay.jpg

12. essay often found in newspapers and magazines may share an opinion, entertain or describe something that happened there are 3 major types of essays formal essays have a more scholarly and serious tone, while informal essays have a more conversational tone

13. 3 types of essay expository personal persuasive

14. expository essay tightly structured impersonal style presents or explains information and ideas The ancient Greeks were horrified by hydras, sea dragons with nine or more heads. As centuries passed, only seven headed hydras were seen. The seventeenth-century naturalist Edward Topsell included a picture of a hydra in The History of Serpents. - Rhonda Blumberg The Truth About Dragons http://www.sacred-texts.com/lcr/fsca/img/09700.jpg

15. personal essay looser structure more personal style expresses a writer's thoughts and feelings My business is to make readers from non-readers, and if you think it's easy, then join me anytime, and see how, where and why it's done. On the "where" front, I have slept on a lot of floors and couches, and on the "why" front I recall the kinder, gentler America that was proposed several years ago. - Gary Soto Who Are You Readers? http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iPSzeYuCXl4/T3UfS0eB7vI/AAAAAAAAANk/Ss_nvn3QW-U/s1600/angry+reader.jpg

16. persuasive essay presents arguments tries to convince readers to adopt a certain viewpoint If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian, he can live in peace. There need be no trouble. Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. All men are made by the same Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers. The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. - Chief Joseph Chief Joseph Speaks http://www.motorsbros.com/images/Indian-Chief-05.jpg

17. informative article a piece of work that gives facts about a particular subject

18. informative article newspaper articles and feature stories are examples of informative articles On June 23 lightning started a fire near Shoshone Lake in the southern part of the park. On June 25 another bolt of lightning started a fire in the northwest. These fires did not go out, and no one tried to put them out. - Patricia Lauber Summer of Fire http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/Prescribed_burn_in_a_Pinus_nigra_stand_in_Portugal.JPG

19. interview a conversation in which one person questions another to get information http://dailypinner.eraniapinnera.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/interview.jpg

20. interview interviewer takes notes or records the conversations so that an accurate account of what the person said can be written Q: You wrote your best known works while you were running dogs. Where did you find the time? A: With the dogs, you run them just four hours on, then four hours off. When they were sleeping those four hours, I'd sit by the campfire and write longhand. - Talking with Gary Paulsen

21. So now you will read "A 9,500 Year Old Summer House" on pgs. 714-717. Also read the "Reading For Information" box and answer questions 1-4 in your notes.