Non-Fiction+Autobiography+Novel+Kendra,+Nathan,+Jase,+Tara

1. What are we reading? Why? Jase Davis - Between a Rock and a Hard Place saw the movie so he wants to read the book Tara Doggett Lament because it sounded like a good book to read Kendra Nedell - Half Broke Horses because she read a book that goes before and kind of relates to the original and wanted to read the other one, different kind of book Nathan McDermott - Under the Banner of Heaven because my sister read it and it sounded really good and interesting

2. Review what we learned about the genre as a class. The use the master techniques from the other genres we have learned, autobiographies can be about a certain section of time, not just your whole life, need a solid plot structure to give meaning,

3. Come up with some questions or topics that we want to know about the genre. What are the differences between the plot structure of these different genres? What techniques does an author use to make an autobiography unique from another? How does an author keep interest while giving the facts in a nonfiction book? 4. Break down our reading

Genre Discussion #1:

1. How do authors write the beginning of this genre? 2. Answer something you all wanted to know 3. Identify and discuss 2 master techniques that you see in all of your works, Give examples. Why would all authors of this genre use these MTs? 4. Identify and share 1 master technique from each individual work
 * Facts and Background because you can't change it, and you need an understanding
 * Quotes (Homer)
 * Setting
 * Flashback story
 * Novel::::::Just jumping into into the story (no facts)
 * With the intro of nonfiction, you need background and facts before you start it.
 * With the intro of a novel, you have to bring interest and get involved in the story with limited facts
 * Cool, Vivid Words: you can't make the story different than it actually is, so with just facts, it is 'dry' --> spice it up with these words for interest
 * "the hard sunbaked earth acts like fired clay-tile shingles" (41). -jase
 * 'This both titillated and shocked the sensibilities of Victorian-era Americans" (6). -nate
 * "having jettisoned polygamy" (7) -nate
 * Imagery: you need to picture what is going on so the reader understands
 * "We had a homestead on Salt Draw, which flowed into the Pecos River, in the rolling gritty grassland of west Texas" (6). -Kendra
 * "The juxtaposed textures, colors, and shapes of the caramel and Navajo rock layers reflect the polarized landscape that formed them" (37). -Jase
 * Tara: characterization: helps the story and seeing the characters
 * Jase: foreshadowing, to predict what will happen and fill in the blanks
 * Nate: repetition, "mormon fundamentalists and original mormon religion are not the same", gets the point across
 * Kendra: setting, understand the family background which explains why the story flows the way it does (very rural)

Genre Discussion #2: Genre Discussion #3:
 * 1) Answer/ research 1 thing you wanted to know about your genre?
 * 2) What techniques does an author use to make an autobiography unique from another?
 * 3) One of the main ways
 * 4) Situation (how well its set up)
 * 5) Point of view (naration)
 * 6) Setting (time span -->a day-life)
 * 7) How does the middle of this genre work?
 * 8) Nate/Kendra : starting to develop from info into a story (you don't see a defined climax: need a focus)
 * 9) Tara: Book has not hit climax yet
 * 10) What master techniques are becoming most important and why? Make sure you have examples!
 * 11) Conflict
 * 12) Nate's book "They began raiding gentile towns and plundering through food, livestock and valuables...Missourians"
 * 13) Tara's book " The fire flickered and diminished on one of the wings, and the ache in my heart diminished as well. 'No' gasped Luke, and I opened my eyes to see him shaking his head. 'No, don't do it. Just leave me alone.' ...' She'll //know'//" (196).
 * 14) Cool, Vivid words
 * 15) Description
 * 16) Kendra's book " Jim could see things with those pale blue eyes that other people couldn't see - the quail in the thick brush, the horse and the rider on the horizon, the eagle's nest in the side of the cliff. It was what made him a crack shot..." pg 100
 * 1) How do authors end this genre?
 * 2) Autobiography
 * 3) Ends with closure, wouldn't be worth writing if there wasn't a conflict they went through
 * 4) Nonfiction
 * 5) Nonfiction just ends, not with a complete closure necessarily since the issue might still be happening.
 * 6) How does an author keep interest while giving the facts in a nonfiction book?
 * 7) Use master techniques like setting and situation to create imagery for the reader.
 * 8) Use "fluff" in the writing so it can read like a story and not just a fact list.
 * 9) What are the __MOST__ important master techniques? What are examples of these?
 * 10) Autobiography
 * 11) Plot structure because the book came to a clear define end and a resolution that provided closure to the story
 * 12) Pg. 463 "You've got to love the life you live and live the life you love." - closure
 * 13) Cool, vivid words because the book would just be facts and would be a very dry and entertaining
 * 14) Nonfiction
 * 15) Cool, vivid words same as autobiography, snag your attention when you are fading out
 * 16) Pg. 140 "highfalutin"
 * 17) Pg. 165 "cockamamie"
 * 18) Supporting details
 * 19) What are the key differences within the genre as seen between the different works you each read?
 * 20) We didn't read the same genres, doh!
 * 21) Comparing within the genre to other genres is an impossibility