Novel+-+Abby,+Ethan,+Noland,+Sara

3 topics: - share what each is reading. Why? - Review the genre. What have we already learned? - More things you want to learn about the genre.
 * each book
 * my first love, by Callie West (Ethan): Short and easy read.
 * The Valley of the Wolves, by Laura Garcia (Abby): She wanted a book she could enjoy, hasn't read for pleasure for a while.
 * Water for the Elephants, by Sara Gruen (Noland): Interested in seeing the movie, but wants to read the book first.
 * The Two Towers, by J. R. R. Tolkien (Sara): Has seen the movie 10000000 times and wants to see the difference between the book and movie.
 * Novel
 * Fiction
 * Tells a story that involves character development.
 * Narrative style
 * Story that is usually defined as a series of events
 * Novel
 * What is the least number of pages a novel must be.
 * <span style="color: #17f109; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Origins

<span style="color: #17f109; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Break up reading...

<span style="color: #17f109; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Discussion <span style="color: #17f109; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">1. Answer and research Two things about your novel? <span style="color: #17f109; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-amount of pages in a novel (Abby) <span style="color: #17f109; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-orgin (Ethan) <span style="color: #17f109; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-What is the difference between novels and the difference between other genres?
 * <span style="color: #17f109; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-5,000 words
 * <span style="color: #17f109; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">- Daniel Defoe (founder)
 * <span style="color: #17f109; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">- Samuel Richardson (novel of character)
 * <span style="color: #17f109; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-Herny Fielding (1st to write novels)
 * <span style="color: #17f109; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-Novels: fiction narrative that are fairly long, portraying characters and usually presenting a sequential organization of events
 * <span style="color: #17f109; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-Short Stories: A collection of several **different** stories that seem to connect and flow
 * <span style="color: #17f109; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Drama: dramatic composition

<span style="color: #17f109; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">2. How does the middle of this genre work? <span style="color: #17f109; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-Noland: Not very obvious climax, the reader had to look for the climax <span style="color: #17f109; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-Sara: Climax, the whole book is a climax. Each chapter has a climax. <span style="color: #17f109; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-Ethan: There is a climax. When Harry Potter finds out about the Sorcerer's stone and is finding many clues that lead up to the resolution <span style="color: #17f109; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-Abby: Not much of a climax, wish there was more, it seem like there would have been a climax

<span style="color: #17f109; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">3. Master Techniques and examples <span style="color: #17f109; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Sara: personification <span style="color: #17f109; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Abby: personification <span style="color: #17f109; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Ethan: direct characterization <span style="color: #17f109; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Noland: imagery
 * <span style="color: #17f109; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">give life to a tree
 * <span style="color: #17f109; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">A curse on all of the wolfs that makes them have the anger that matches a human

4. Main master techniques Ethan: personification Abby: foreshadowing Sara: situation
 * Sara Gruen paints a clear image of the difference between the modern circus and the past circus
 * Old Circus (travel in trains, bip top was white) Modern Circus (trave in buses, big top is striped)
 * describes the stone with unrealistic traits

Noland: flashback
 * see different things from different views, each character had different problems
 * Old man reflects on his past life at the circus

1. How do the author end this genre? 3. Master techniques 4.what are the differences?
 * Ethan
 * has a resolution, but continues onto another book
 * keeps in a suspense.
 * Abby
 * happy ending
 * cliche
 * wanted more out of it
 * Sara
 * the is no resolution
 * cliff hanger
 * starts where next book starts
 * MORE
 * Noland
 * resolution
 * cliff hanger
 * wished there would have been more.
 * plot structure
 * point of view
 * characterization
 * theme
 * sara
 * fantasy
 * story within a story
 * focus on different characters at different times
 * ethan
 * focus on one character
 * Abby
 * told in different perspectives
 * hinting bad character is up to no good.
 * Noland
 * author used research to make story believable.