Genre Project

English 10Mrs. Reddish

Title SlideNovel and Author

Your name

You will need to make a title slide with this information.

Days of the DeadBarbara Hambly

Mrs. Reddish

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Page 194

Our independent book project this time will be defining the genre of our chosen text. It is important that you use all your resources!

Title: Days of the DeadWhat is your book’s genre?Write it here: Historical Mystery

What is it?In this novel, the main character travels to Mexico City in 1835 to try to prove his friend is not a murderer.

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Example:Wet Grave by Barbara Hambly

Attribute: Setting makes this book a historical novel.

Attribute: Because the main character is working to find clues to prove his friend’s innocence, this is a mystery.

Attribute: This novel is a mystery because the main character must solve the problem, or terrible things will happen.

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The Attribute bubbles are

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You may use this slide as a template!

Each attribute will need to be proven with three quotations from your book.

• Your quotations should come from the beginning, middle, and the end.

• You do not have to label your quotations with little beginning, middle, and end arrows.

• Your quotations need to be punctuated properly, and you need the page number written in MLA format.

• My attribute pages have a hyperlink that goes back to the definition web. For my hyperlink, I used a map of Mexico with a red dot representing Mexico City. My story took place in Mexico City. Make all images you use relate to your book.

Attribute: Setting makes this book a historical novel.

“Besides the enormous ox-carts, coaches, burros laden with charcoal and firewood, and herds of long-horned cattle and grunting swine, there were unexpected numbers of soldiers on the causeway” (15).

“The following morning January made enquiries for Senor Benedicte do Cerritos among the letter-writers who set up their portable desks, their ink-wells and their sheets of pink and blue paper among the candy-stalls and vendors of mangos and oranges in the dense shade of the arcade along the western side of Plaza Santo Domingo” (132).

“Every time I take a steam packet, reflected January resignedly, I swear the next voyage will be under sail. And then while we beat back and forth within sight of port for two weeks, waiting for a favorable puff of wind to take us in, I remember why I don’t” (308).

Beginning

Middle

End

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Link to definition map!

Attribute: Because the main character is working to find clues to prove his friend’s innocence, this is a mystery.

“I am widely supposed to have murdered his only son” (1).

“The shop was gloomy . . . . Some of the medicinal plants he recognized from his sister Olympe’s stock of voodoo remedies—spikenard for hcest cold and aloes for bruises, chinchona bark to induce abortions. . . . But when they spoke of local poisons, what January learned was not only unhelpful but puzzling” (137).

“’It has to have been peanuts, doesn’t it?’ said Rose.‘I think so. Dona Maria-Exaltacion dies of eating ‘poisoned candy—it could easily have been a praline. . . . It would be easy for him to carry a handful of powdered nuts wrapped in paper and dump them in the strongest-tasting dish he could find”(270).

Beginning

Middle End

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Link to definition map!

Attribute: This novel is a mystery because the main character must solve the problem, or terrible things will happen.

“Were Don Prospero de Castellon even marginally sane, I would probably already have been executed—the evidence is fairly damning. By remarks the Don has made, however, I have the uncomfortable conviction that after the first of November—he will fall in with the popular view” (1).

“The Days of the Dead were coming, as certain as the slow waning of the sun. Ten days’ grace at the outside, and less than that if Santa Anna left town, or Don Prospero grew bored with Hannibal . . . . Or went mad again.The recollection of the smell of blood in the darkness returned to him, and of Casimiro’s frightened eyes” (122).

Don Anastasio reached down, dragged Hannibal to his feet by the front of his shirt, then tore the garment back over his shoulders and shovedhim into the grip of two bandits, who had managed, in near-record time, to finish the liquor in the flask” (291).

Beginning

Middle End

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Link to definition map!

EVALUATION: Is Days of the Dead a good example of a historical mystery?

• Barbara Hambly did an excellent job creating the setting of 1835 Mexico City. She researched the layout of the streets, and she used real figures from history. Her descriptions were vivid and believable. Unfortunately, the mystery fell flat. The trail to the killer was long and twisted; I never even suspected him of being the killer until she reveals him in the last part. The ending wrapped up very quickly; everyone was safe and happy. The bad guy was dead.

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In PowerPoint, you will hyperlink text which makes reference to content on another slide so you can easily jump to that slide.

To create a hyperlink to connect to another slide in your presentation:

1. Within PowerPoint, go to the top tool bar and switch View to Normal View. 2. Select the text or object that you want to hyperlink by highlighting it. 3. On the Insert tab, within the Links group, click Hyperlink. 4. Under Link to, select Place in This Document (left side). 5. Under Select a place in this document, click the slide that you want to use as the hyperlink destination. 6. Click OK.7. Check your work. Select Slide Show and Start Slide

Show.

Does this hyperlink work? Start Slide Show and find out!

Add appropriate images if you have time.

• FREE COPYRIGHT IMAGES• http://www.veezzle.com/• http://www.shutterstock.com/• http://taggalaxy.de• Good Old Clipart!• If you take images from a search on Google, or

anywhere else, you will need to document it!

Still having trouble filling in your definition map?

• Visit the genre project folder in the shared drive for attributes and definitions of genres.

• Site for help with genre and other examples of your genre:

• http://www.bookhooks.com/historical_fiction.cfm

Genre Project Grading

• All hyperlinks work. 10 points. • Each slide is worth 10 points.– The slide must contain all the assigned elements.– The information on the slide must be correctly

presented.– The slide must contain no errors in conventions.– Images on the slide must pertain to the information.

If the image is not from an approved site, it should be documented.

– The slides must be neat and easy to read.70 points total