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ACTIVITY WORKSHEET FOR CREATIVE WRITING

QUARTER 3 - WEEK 6

General Objective: (MELC) Write journal entries and other short compositions exploring key elements
of fiction (HUMSS_CW/MPlg-i-13)
Learning Objectives: Identifies the fictional genres in the given stories.

A. EXPLORE

Say Something!
Directions: Tell something about the provided pictures. Write your statements on your paper.

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B. LEARN

Fictional Genres

There are general rules to follow, for example, manuscript length, character types, settings,
themes, viewpoint choices, and plots. Certain settings suit specific genres. These will vary in type, details,
intensity, and length of description. The tone employed by the author, and the mood created for the reader,
must also suit the genre.
Why Does Genre Matter?
Genres are great because they fulfil reader expectations. We purchase certain books since we have
appreciated comparative stories previously. Perusing these books gives us a feeling of having a place, of
plunking down with an old companion and knowing we're on recognizable ground. There is additionally a
brotherhood between readers who follow similar classes.

Journalists can utilize this for their potential benefit on the grounds that their limits are models on
which to base stories. Sorts reflect patterns in the public arena, and they advance when authors push the
limits. At last choose if the trial has worked by purchasing these books.
 The most significant piece of sort fiction, however, is that it satisfies our human requirement for
classic narrating. We some of the time need stories we can depend on to dull the unforgiving real factors of
life.

These are some of the fictional genres that you may encounter while reading a story or watching a
film. But, let us focus only with some of the most common fictional genres that you may select in writing
your own fictional story.

1. FANTASY
A story that is imaginative but could never really happen. The setting may be of another world.
Characters might be magical like talking animals, sorceries, witches and wizardry. It is a genre of
imaginative fiction involving magic and adventure, especially in a setting other than the real world.

Many fantasy novels involve adventure as a key feature. Characters may discover portals to other
worlds or discover hidden magic, wonder and surprise in our own world. Novels from C.S. Lewis’s classic
Chronicles of Narnia series to J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series populate imaginary worlds with mythical
beasts, power-seeking tyrants and more.

Characters adventure through worlds where the impossible is possible. Exploring the ‘impossible’ is
another common element in fantasy. Magical wands may weave spells that defy the laws of physics as we
know them.

Other times magic is spoken, chanted, or ripples through land and landscape.

Element 1: Magic
The word magic comes from the Greek magikos, from magos. This means ‘one of the members of the
learned and priestly class’. This explains how magic, in fantasy, is often associated with learning, with
complex books and rituals.
Magic in great books takes many forms. The apprentice wizards in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter duel
with wands. In C.S. Lewis’ Narnia series, a witch casts a spell over the Kingdom of Narnia, plunging it into
eternal winter. She also destroys a secondary world by speaking ‘the Deplorable Word’.
Element 2: Adventure
Adventure in fantasy is common, from bands of travelling, questing heroes (like Frodo and friends in
Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings) to girls who fall down magical rabbit holes (Alice in Wonderland).
Adventure in fantasy often features another meaning of magic:
‘A quality of being beautiful and delightful in a way that seems remote from daily life.’
Adventure does indeed take us to places that seem remote from daily life, full of new joys and
discoveries (or dangers). In Frodo’s adventures, he finds both the dazzling land of the elves, Lothlorien, and
the foul, stinking lands of Mordor where the story’s villain resides.
Adventure means ‘an unusual and exciting or daring experience’, as well as ‘excitement associated
with danger or the taking of risks.’
Element 3: Struggle for mystery
Themes of struggle and mastery are found in many forms throughout many fantasy novels. Part of
this is due to fantasy’s origins in ideas of arcane, ‘special’, yet volatile and dangerous knowledge. The
initiate often must learn to control the unpredictable surges of ‘wild’ magic, to trace or utter the ‘right’ thing
to achieve the desired effect.
This process of struggle and mastery is often shown in character development. Sometimes
characters use power irresponsibly. For example, a character tries to ruin a magical game of the airborne
sport Quidditch in Rowling’s fantasy series. Struggle in fantasy fiction includes:
Struggle for mastery of self: Understanding and using one’s own power effectively or wisely
Conflict between those who use their own magical mastery for positive or destructive ends
 Element 4: Setting
Because of its exploration of the otherworldly and the supernatural, place is a key aspect of many
fantasy novels. Some places are created through magic. The lion Aslan sings the Kingdom of Narnia into
being in C.S. Lewis’ lore. (A Christian mythology parallel to the Creation in the Bible.) By contrast, Jadis,
the White Witch, destroys a whole world by speaking a powerful word.
In fantasy, we often strongly experience both characters’ effects on their world, and their worlds
effects and influence on them.

These are some of the literary pieces under fantasy genre:

1. The Tale of Peter Rabbit, by Beatrix Potter
2. The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi
3. Charlie and Chocolate Factory, by Roald Dahl
4. Alice Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll
5. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, by K. Rowling
6. Gulliver’s Travels, by Jonathan Swift
7. The Lord of the Rings trilogy / Hobbit, by J. R. R. Tolkien

2. HISTORICAL FICTION
A story that takes place in a historically accurate time and setting. The characters and some events
are fictional.
Element 1: Character – whether real or imagined, characters behave in keeping with the era they
inhabit, even if they push the boundaries. And that means discovering the norms, attitudes, beliefs and
expectations of their time and station in life.
Element 2: Dialogue - is cumbersome and difficult to understand detracts from readers’ enjoyment
of historical fiction. Dip occasionally into the vocabulary and grammatical structures of the past by inserting
select words and phrases so that a reader knows s/he is in another time period.
Element 3: Setting – setting is time and place. More than 75% of participants in a 2013 reader
survey selected ‘to bring the past to life’ as the primary reason for reading historical fiction. Your job as a
writer is to do just that. Even more critically, you need to transport your readers into the past in the first few
paragraphs. Consider these opening sentences.
Element 4: Plot – the plot has to make sense for the time period. And plot will often be shaped
around or by the historical events taking place at that time. This is particularly true when writing about
famous historical figures. When considering those historical events, remember that you are telling a story not
writing history.
Element 5: Conflict – the problems faced by the characters in your story. As with theme and plot,
conflict must be realistic for the chosen time and place. Readers will want to understand the reasons for the
conflicts you present. An unmarried woman in the 15th century might be forced into marriage with a difficult
man or the taking of religious vows. Both choices lead to conflict.

These are some of the literary pieces under historical fiction genre:

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Tolstoy's epic masterpiece depicting the French invasion of Russia during the Napoleonic era
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
The fictional memoir of a geisha, from age nine to adulthood, in pre- and post WWII Japan.
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo The friar's daughter : a story of the
American occupation of the Philippines /
A gothic novel that inspired a flood of tourists to Paris' most famous cathedral.
(Girard, Kansas : the author, 1909), by Charles Lincoln Phifer (page images at HathiTrust)
Luha at dugo : (hayag na pangyayari, buhat ng 1895 hanggang 1913) by M. B. Sevilla.
 3. SCIENCE FICTION
A story that is typically set in the future or on other planets. It is based on the impact of actual, imagined,
or potential science. It is a type of imaginative literature. It provides a mental picture of something that may
happen on realistic scientific principles and facts. This fiction might portray, for instance, a world where
young people are living on Mars. Hence, it is known as “futuristic fiction.” It dramatizes the wonders of
technology, and resembles heroic fantasy where magic is substituted with technology.
Often called “sci-fi,” is a genre of fiction literature whose content is imaginative, but based in science. It
relies heavily on scientific facts, theories, and principles as support for its settings, characters, themes, and
plot-lines, which is what makes it different from fantasy.

Importance of Science Fiction

Many times, science fiction turns real scientific theories into full stories about what is possible and/or
imaginable. Many stories use hard facts and truths of sciences to:
• suggest what could really happen in the future
• to explore what could happen if certain events or circumstances came to be or
• suggest consequences of technological and scientific advancements and
innovation.
Historically it has been a popular form for not only authors, but scientists as well. In the past 150 years,
science fiction has become a huge genre, with a particularly large presence in film and television—in fact,
the TV network “SciFi” is completely devoted to science fiction media. It is a particularly fascinating and
mind-bending genre for audiences because of its connection to reality.
These are some of the literary pieces under Science Fiction genre:

1. The Avengers
2. Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
3. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
4. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
5. The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
6. Men in Black 3 by Barry Sonnenfeld
7. Planet of the Apes by Franklin J. Schaffner
8. The Matrix by Wachowski brothers

4. MYSTERY FICTION
Mystery (pronounced mis-tuh-ree, ) is a genre of literature whose stories focus on a puzzling crime,
situation, or circumstance that needs to be solved. The term comes from the Latin mysterium, meaning “a
secret thing.” stories can be either fictional or nonfictional, and can focus on both supernatural and non-
supernatural topics. Many mystery stories involve what is called a “whodunit” scenario, meaning the mystery
revolves around the uncovering a culprit or criminal.

Importance of Mystery
Mysteries began to gain popularity in the Victorian era, mostly in the form of gothic literature, which
was primarily for women. Since then it has developed in both form and reach, and has become a widely read
genre among male and female readers of all ages. Mysteries are important because they feature topics that
are usually both fascinating and troubling to the human mind—unsolved crimes, unexplained questions and
events in natural and human history, supernatural curiosities, and so on.

The late 1800’s gave rise to the iconic fictional character Sherlock Holmes, a detective who is
featured in a series of mystery novels and short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Most of the
stories are told from the perspective of Dr. Watson, Holmes’s assistant and companion. Holmes is an
independent detective based in London with eccentric personality and highly logical reasoning skills. Below
is a short selection from the novel The Hound of Baskerville:

Another item had been added to that constant and apparently purposeless series of small mysteries
which had succeeded each other so rapidly. Setting aside the whole grim story of Sir Charles’s
death, we had a line of inexplicable incidents all within the limits of two days, which included the
 receipt of the printed letter, the black-bearded spy in the hansom, the loss of the new brown boot,
the loss of the old black boot, and now the return of the new brown boot. Holmes sat in silence in the
cab as we drove back to Baker Street, and I knew from his drawn brows and keen face that his
mind, like my own, was busy in endeavouring to frame some scheme into which all these strange
and apparently disconnected episodes could be fitted.

Here, Watson is running through some of the clues to the victim’s death in his head. He also
expresses his familiarity with Holmes’ character and skills by telling the audience that he knows the
detective is finding the connections between all of these clues in his mind; which will inevitably lead to the
solving of the mysterious murder.

These are some of the literary pieces under Mystery Fiction genre:
1. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson
A run-away bestseller, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo has everything a mystery requires.
Murder, family ties, love in the air, and financial shenanigans. What happened to Harriet Vanger who
disappeared forty years ago? Mikael Blomkvist, a disgraced journalist, and Lisbeth Salander, a
tattooed and pierced hacker genius, are on the case. They uncover family iniquity and corruption at
the top of Sweden’s industrial ladder.
2. And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie
Ten people, strangers, gather on a private island as weekend guests of an unseen eccentric
millionaire. These strangers have secrets to keep, but one by one they are murdered. They all have
something in common, though—they each have a wicked past they’re hiding, a secret that seals
their fate. Only the dead are above suspicion.
3. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon
Christopher John Francis Boone’s logical mind can find patterns and rules for everything but
has little time or inclination for understanding human emotions. When his neighbor’s dog,
Wellington, is killed, he starts a quest to find the killer using Sherlock Holmes as his model.

5. REALISTIC FICTION
 A story that seems real or could happen in real life. It is set in present day and includes modern
day problems and events.

Characteristics of Realistic Fiction

A quick way to classify a story or novel as realistic fiction is to identify the following characteristics
within that literary work:

1. Realistic fiction stories tend to take place in the present or recent past.
2. Characters are involved in events that could happen.
3. Characters live in places that could be or are real.
4. The characters seem like real people with real issues solved in a realistic way (so say goodbye to
stories containing vampires, werewolves, sorcerers, dragons, zombies, etc.).
5. The events portrayed in realistic fiction conjure questions that a reader could face
in everyday life.
Realistic fiction attempts to portray the world as it is. It contains no fantasy, no supernatural
elements, and it usually depicts ordinary people going about the business of daily living, with all its joys,
sorrow, successes, and failures.
Over the past 150 years, children's literature has gradually moved from a romantic view of the
world toward a more realistic view (*Note: "Romance" refers to the fiction portraying a world that seems
happier than the one we live in). Subjects that were once taboo in realistic fiction are now commonplace,
and language and character development are presented with greater candor and boldness.

1. In good realistic fiction,

2. the characters are engaging and believable.
3. the dialogue is believable.
 4. the plot is fresh and original.
5. the setting is true to life.
6. the problems faced by the characters are honestly portrayed.
7. the resolution makes sense.
8. the theme grows naturally out of the action and characters - the writer does not
preach at us.
These are some of the literary pieces under Mystery Fiction genre:
1. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
John Green’s fourth novel, The Fault in Our Stars, has gained a following among tween and teen
readers. This is partly due to its tragic love story, but may also be due to its thought-provoking
subject matter. The book explores philosophical questions about the meaning of life, death, and
suffering. While adults may find the topics in this novel heavy and too mature for children, Green
believes that young readers are probably already thinking about them.
2. Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
Diary of a Wimpy Kid, a realistic fiction novel, humorously describes the troubles of being in middle
school and trying to fit in with integrated text and drawings. This is the first book in the immensely
popular Diary of a Wimpy Kid series.
3. A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks
Every April, when the wind blows from the sea and mingles with the scent of lilacs, Landon
Carter remembers his last year at Beaufort High. It was 1958, and Landon had already dated a girl
or two. He even swore that he had once been in love. Certainly the last person in town he thought
he’d fall for was Jamie Sullivan, the daughter of the town’s Baptist minister. A quiet girl who always
carried a Bible with her schoolbooks, Jamie seemed content living in a world apart from the other
teens. She took care of her widowed father, rescued hurt animals, and helped out at the local
orphanage. No boy had ever asked her out. Landon would never have dreamed of it. Then a twist of
fate made Jamie his partner for the homecoming dance, and Landon Carter’s life would never be
the same. Being with Jamie would show him the depths of the human heart and lead him to a
decision so stunning it would send him irrevocably on the road to manhood.

6. HORROR
The horror genre in literature dates back to Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, where horror stories
explored themes related to death, demons, evil spirits, and the afterlife. Examples include the ancient Greek
tragedy Hippolytus by Euripides, a gruesome story about how jealousy and a lack of empathy can lead to
tragedy; and Parallel Lives by Plutarch, a series of biographies highlighting the many moral failures of man.
The gothic novel, a genre of horror that focuses specifically on death, originated in the eighteenth
century and is exemplified by the author Edgar Allan Poe. Horror literature in the nineteenth century and
twentieth centuries often focused on tales involving occult ideas, like Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein (1818) or
Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897).
Modern horror novels have expanded the genre to include new elements and contemporary
themes, like serial killers and slasher stories—Stephen King’s The Shining (1977) is a perfect example—
as well as genre mashups that combine horror with historical fantasy, and modern interpretations of
fantastical creatures, like ghosts, vampires, werewolves, and witches.

Other Fictional Genres:

7. Adventure - A story where a protagonist and other major characters and are placed in dangerous
situations. The characters must use their wit and skills to defeat the antagonist.
8. Folktales
a. Fable - A brief story that is meant to tell a lesson or a moral. The characters are usually
animals with human characteristics.
b. Fairy Tale - A story that has magical elements. The characters are usually fairies, giants,
elves, and other magical creatures.
 c. Legend - A story usually about a national or folk hero. This story takes place in a particular
time and place and is partly true and partly fiction. The character traits of the hero are typically
exaggerated.
d. Tall Tale - A humorous story with extreme exaggerations. The main character, or hero,
usually does impossible things with ease.
e. Myth - A story that is often based on a historical event that is meant to serve as an
explanation for some phenomenon of nature or human behavior. Characters are usually gods.

C. ENGAGE

Directions: Identify the correct word/s that clearly describes the statements. Choose your answers in the
box

Legend, Horror, Adventure, Fable, Fantasy,

Tall Tale, Historical, Realistic, Science, Climax, Mystery

__________1. It is a genre of literature whose stories focus on a puzzling crime, situation, or

circumstance that needs to be solved.
__________2. A story that is typically set in the future or on other planets.
__________3. A story that seems real or could happen in real life.
__________4. A story that takes place in a historically accurate time and setting.
__________5. A type of folktales story usually about a national or folk hero.
__________6. A story that is imaginative but could never really happen.
__________7. A humorous story with extreme exaggerations.
__________8. A story where a protagonist and other major characters and are placed in dangerous
situations.
__________9. Stories explored themes related to death, demons, evil spirits, and the afterlife.
__________10. A brief story that is meant to tell a lesson or a moral. The characters are usually animals with
human characteristics.

D. Apply
Directions: I. Read the synopsis of the literary pieces. Identify their fictional genre. Note that some of the
literary pieces might have more than one genre. Write your answers on the space provided.

___________1. Travis Shaw is a ladies' man who thinks a serious relationship would cramp his easygoing lifestyle.
Gabby Holland is a feisty medical student who's preparing to settle down with her long-term boyfriend. Fate brings
the two together as Gabby moves next door to Travis, sparking an irresistible attraction that upends both of their
lives. As their bond grows, the unlikely couple must decide how far they're willing to go to keep the hope of love
alive.

___________2. 84 years later, a 100 year-old woman named Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story to her
granddaughter Lizzy Calvert, Brock Lovett, Lewis Bodine, Bobby Buell and Anatoly Mikailavich on the Keldysh
about her life set in April 10th 1912, on a ship called Titanic when young Rose boards the departing ship with the
upper-class passengers and her mother, Ruth DeWitt Bukater, and her fiancé, Caledon Hockley. Meanwhile, a
drifter and artist named Jack Dawson and his best friend Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets to the ship in a
game. And she explains the whole story from departure until the death of Titanic on its first and last voyage April
15th, 1912 at 2:20 in the morning.

___________3. A student named Tine wants to get rid of a gay admirer. His friends recommend getting a pretend
boyfriend, Sarawat, who plays hard to get, until he finally agrees. The two become close and intense emotions
soon erupted.
___________4. Bella Swan has always been a little bit different. Never one to run with the crowd, Bella never cared
about fitting in with the trendy girls at her Phoenix, Arizona high school. When her mother remarries and Bella
chooses to live with her father in the rainy little town of Forks, Washington, she doesn't expect much of anything to
change. But things do change when she meets the mysterious and dazzlingly beautiful Edward Cullen. For Edward
is nothing like any boy she's ever met. He's nothing like anyone she's ever met, period. He's intelligent and witty,
and he seems to see straight into her soul. In no time at all, they are swept up in a passionate and decidedly
unorthodox romance unorthodox because Edward really isn't like the other boys. He can run faster than a mountain
lion. He can stop a moving car with his bare hands. Oh, and he hasn't aged since 1918. Like all vampires, he's
immortal. That's right vampire. But he doesn't have fangs - that's just in the movies.

___________5. Our friendly neighborhood Super Hero decides to join his best friends Ned, MJ, and the rest of the
gang on a European vacation. However, Peter's plan to leave super heroics behind for a few weeks are quickly
scrapped when he begrudgingly agrees to help Nick Fury uncover the mystery of several elemental creature
attacks, creating havoc across the continent.

___________6. As the film begins, we see Owen and Mariella are fighting in a car by a lake. It appears that Owen
has left his wife to be with Mariella, and is angry that Mariella is not willing to make the same sacrifice. The fight
turns violent, and Owen has hit Mariella through the car window. Mariella tries to escape from the car, and the
scene cuts to flashback. We see Mariella telling her husband, Ivan, that her best friend, Samantha needs company
and she drives off into the night. Later that evening, their daughter Angel comes to Ivan looking for her mother, and
Ivan tells Angel that her mother has gone away. There is a car that passes by in the area where a bloody Mariella is
looking for help, in the middle of a rainstorm. The driver and his passenger are singing Christmas carols in the car,
Mariella knows she is dead.

___________7. Oscar Diggs (James Franco), a small-time circus magician with dubious ethics, is hurled away from
dusty Kansas to the vibrant Land of Oz. At first he thinks he's hit the jackpot-fame and fortune are his for the taking.
That all changes, however, when he meets three witches, Theodora (Mila Kunis), Evanora (Rachel Weisz), and
Glinda (Michelle Williams), who are not convinced he is the great wizard everyone's been expecting. Reluctantly
drawn into the epic problems facing the Land of Oz and its inhabitants, Oscar must find out who is good and who is
evil before it is too late. Putting his magical arts to use through illusion, ingenuity-and even a bit of wizardry-Oscar
transforms himself not only into the great and powerful Wizard of Oz but into a better man as well.

___________8. Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own
miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits
him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and
must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.

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