1. Stations for the Week of October 13, 2015 ___X____ Plot chart ____X___ point of view _______ conflict _______ prewriting imaginative story

2. Point of View Practice Narrative Perspective

3. Directions 1.Please write everything in red in your notebook!!!! 2.You will take notes on the next 5 slides! 3.You will read the 10 passages 4.You will write down the point of view of each in your notebook. 5.Write at least one sentence explaining your answer.

4. 1 st person 1 st person: First person narrative is a point of view (who is telling a story) where the story is narrated by one character at a time. This character may be speaking about him or herself or sharing events that he or she is experiencing. “I” and “me” are words commonly used in this type.

5. 2 nd person 2 nd person: The second-person narrative is a narrative mode in which the protagonist or another main character is referred to by second-person personal pronouns and other kinds of addressing forms, for example the English second- person pronoun "you."

6. 3 rd person Objective 3 rd person objective: In third-person objective, the narrator simply describes what is happening to the characters in the story and does not show us anyone's thoughts or feelings. Commonly uses “he” “she” “they”

7. 3 rd person omniscient 3 rd person omniscient: Third person omniscient is a point of view where the narrator knows all the thoughts, actions, and feelings of all characters. The author may move from character to character to show how each one contributes to the plot. Commonly uses “he” “she” “they”

8. 3 rd person limited 3 rd person limited: In third person limited the narrator only knows the thoughts and feelings of one character. All characters are described using pronouns, such as 'they,' 'he,' and 'she.' But, one character is closely followed throughout the story, and it is typically a main character Commonly uses “he” “she” “they”

9. Copy this chart in your notebook Passage #Point of ViewSentence explaining why 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

10. Use the chart you just copied to complete the passages Write down the point of view of each passage and write a sentence explaining why on the chart. Your choices are…1st Person, 2 rd -Person, 3 rd Person Omniscient, 3 rd -Person Limited, 3 rd -Person Objective

11. Number 1 The Abominable Snowman By R.A. Montgomery You are a mountain climber. Three years ago you spent the summer at a climbing school in the mountains of Colorado. Your instructors said that you had natural skills as a climber. You made rapid progress and by the end of the summer you were leading difficult rock and ice climbs.

12. Number 2 Outside the Box By Dan Allosso Three shots like thunderclaps rang out from surround speakers in the basement rec room. A white controller jumped in Reid Anderson’s hand each time he squeezed the trigger. Tactile feedback. A speaker in the controller made snapping sounds like the action of a pistol. Reid felt this more than he heard it. The shots made his ears ring.

13. Number 3 Teen Idol By Meg Cabot I witnessed the kidnapping of Betty Ann Mulvaney. Well, me and the twenty-three other people in first period Latin class at Clayton High School (student population 1,200). Unlike everybody else, however, I actually did something to try and stop it. Well, sort of. I went, “Kurt, what are you doing?” Kurt just rolled his eyes. He was all, “Relax, Jen. It’s a joke, okay?”

14. Number 4 Understood Betsy By Dorothy Canfield Aunt Harriet never meant to say any of this when Elizabeth Ann could hear, but the little girl’s ears were as sharp as little girls’ ears always are, and long before she was nine, she knew all about the opinion Aunt Harriet had of the Putneys. She did not know, to be sure, what “chores” were, but she took it confidently from Aunt Harriet’s voice that they were something very, very dreadful.

15. Number 5I Am Number Four By Pittacus Lore The man brings his legs over the front of the cot when the shake starts again. A longer, firmer shake, and another crash, this time closer. The man gets to his feet and walks slowly to the door. Silence. The boy sits up. “No,” the man whispers, and in that instant the blade of a sword, long and gleaming, made of a shining white metal that is not found on Earth, comes through the door and sinks deeply into the man’s chest.

16. Number 6 The Magic School Bus: Inside the Human Body By Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen It all began when Ms. Frizzle showed our class a film strip about the human body. We knew trouble was about to start, because we knew Ms. Frizzle was the strangest teacher in the school.

17. Number 7Glinda of Oz By Frank L. Baum Ozma took the arm of her hostess, but Dorothy lagged behind. When at last she rejoined Glinda and Ozma in the hall, she found them talking earnestly about the condition of the people, and how to make them more happy and contented– although they were already the happiest and most contented folks in all the world. This interested Ozma, of course, but it didn’t interest Dorothy very much, so the little girl ran over to the big table on which was lying open Glinda’s Great Book of Records.

18. Number 8 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens By Sean Covey The 7 Habits of Highly Defective Teens Habit 1: React - Blame all of your problems on your parents, your stupid teachers or professors, your lousy neighborhood, your boyfriend or girlfriend, or something or somebody else. Be a victim. Take no responsibility for your life. Act like an animal. If you’re hungry, eat. If someone yells at you, yell back. If you feel like you’re doing something you know is wrong, just do it.

19. Number 9 Eragon (Inheritance) By Christopher Paolini Eragon knelt in a bed of trampled reed grass and scanned the tracks with a practiced eye. The prints told him that the deer had been in the meadow only a half hour before. Soon they would bed down. His target, a small doe with a pronounced limp in her left forefoot, was still in the herd. He was amazed she had made it so far without a wolf or a bear catching her.

20. Number 10The Grapes of Wrath By John Steinbeck The last rains lifted the corn quickly and scattered weed colonies and grass along the sides of the road. In the last part of May the sky grew pale and the clouds that had hung in high puffs for so long in the spring were dissipated. The sun flared down on the growing corn day after day until a line of brown spread along the edge of each green bayonet. The clouds appeared, and went away, and in a while they did not try anymore. The weeds grew darker green to protect themselves, and they did not spread anymore.

21. Time to check! You are about to check your answers!! Have you written the point of view of all 10 of the paragraphs?? If you have, then you are ready to check the answers on the next slide.

22. Answers 1. 2 nd -Person 2. 3 rd -Person Limited 3. 1 st -Person 4. 3 rd -Person Omniscient 5. 3 rd -Person Objective 6. 1 st -Person 7. 3 rd -Person Omniscient 8. 2 nd -Person 9. 3 rd -Person Limited 10. 3 rd -Person Objective