1. HLLA Chapter 4: Forms of Fiction
● “The Gold Cadillac”
● “Separate But Never Equal”
● “Goodbye Records, Hello CDs”
● “He Lion, Bruh Bear, and Bruh Rabbit” and “The Fox and the Crow” and “The Wolf and the House Dog”

2. Forms of Fiction Fiction – made-up stories
Myths – stories about gods and heroes that people told to explain the world around them
Fables – short teaching stories; most famous ones were told by Aesop; have practical morals
Legends – stories based on real historical events; over time have become exaggerated and less accurate
Folk tale – stories that have been passed down as an oral tradition (spoken, not written) for many generations; different cultures have similar ones; entertaining AND meaningful
Short Story – no chapters…Short!
Novella – shorter than a novel but longer than a short story

3. “The Gold Cadillac” Genre: novella
Focus: novella – fiction, shorter than a novel, longer
than a short story
Skill: Making Predictions
Predicting: using clues given by the author to
make informed guesses about what will happen
next in a story
LR&A #6, 7, 11
The main conflict in this story is _______
One of the subplots (or a secondary conflict) is _____________________________________.
11. The subject of the story is _________. The theme of the story is __________________________________.

4. “Separate But Never Equal”
Text Structure – the way a writer organizes his or her ideas
Types of Text Structure:
Chronological Order (Time order)
Problem/Solution
Compare and Contrast
Compare – identify ways in which people, places, or things are similar
Contrast – identify ways in which people, places, or things are different
Cause/Effect
Order of Importance

5. “Goodbye Records, Hello CDs”
Text Structure – the way a writer organizes his or her ideas
Compare and Contrast Pattern – organizing information by showing how two things are similar and how they are different
Point-by-Point Pattern – moves back and forth between the two things being compared
Block Pattern – covers everything about thing #1 before moving on to thing #2

6. “He Lion, Bruh Bear, and Bruh Rabbit” and more!
Genre: folk tales and fables
Focus: folk tales, fables, and trickster heroes
Folk Tale – no known author; passed down for generations by word of mouth; similar ones appear in different cultures
Fable – brief story with a moral or practical lesson about life; often use animals as the characters
Trickster Heroes – characters who use their cleverness to trick others or teach them a lesson
Skill: Analyzing Cause and Effect
Cause – makes something happen
Effect – what happens