1. Point of View and Author’s Purpose
BP 4 Reading Game Piece 6.3
Point of View and Author’s Purpose

2. Craft and Structure
Objective
Students will be able to determine the point of view of an author and analyze how the point of view is similar or different between two texts on similar topics.

3. Craft and Structure

4. Flip Slips
Practice STEPS TO Skill or Problem
How can two different texts address the same concepts or ideas?
STEP PREP Procedures
Skill Language
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Vocab Breakdown
Prior Knowledge
Textual Evidence
Anticipation
(1 Practice Problem Before Procedures )

5. Skill Focus
The skill for this week is......
Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and explain how it is conveyed in the text.
Analyze multiple accounts of the same event or topic, noting important similarities and differences in the point of view they represent.

6. Skill Focus In other words,
be able to determine the point of view and how varying points of view are used to introduce similar ideas.

7. Vocabulary
Copy the following words:
Analyze
Determine
Purpose
Convey
Point of View
Multiple
Similarity
Difference

8. Vocabulary Strategy: Word Analysis
Under “My Definition,” write the definition for each word. Next, use the word in a sentence. Below “My Definition” under “Synonym” write two words that are similar to the vocabulary word. Finally, under “Antonym” write two words that are opposite.

9. Vocabulary
Analyze: breaking down information with supporting evidence.
Determine: firmly decide.
Purpose: the reason for which something is done or created.
Convey: make (an idea, impression, or feeling) known or understandable to someone.

10. Vocabulary
Point of View: is the perspective from which things are considered, which shows the opinion, or feelings of the individuals involved in a situation. First person P.O.V. involves the use of either of the two pronouns “I” and “We”. Second person P.O.V. uses the pronoun “you”. Third person P.O.V. uses pronouns like “he”, “she”, “it”, “they”, or a name.

11. Vocabulary
Multiple: having or involving several parts, elements, or members.
Similarity: having features or aspects that are alike.
Difference: a point or way in which people or things are not the same.

12. Prior Knowledge
Can an author have a point of view when writing an informational text?
How can two texts on the same topic have different points of view?
How can an author use point of view to engage readers?

13. Anticipatory Set
How are the following texts similar? How are they different?

14. Anticipatory Set
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Frederick Douglass
I made no effort to comply, having now made up my mind to let him do his worst. In a short time after receiving this blow, my head grew better. Mr. Covey had now left me to my fate. At this moment I resolved, for the first time, to go to my master, enter a complaint, and ask his protection. In order to this, I must that afternoon walk seven miles; and this, under the circumstances, was truly a

15. Anticipatory Set
severe undertaking. I was exceedingly feeble; made so as much by the kicks and blows which I received, as by the severe fit of sickness to which I had been subjected. I, however, watched my chance, while Covey was looking in an opposite direction, and started for St. Michael’s.

16. Anticipatory Set Narrative of William W. Brown, A Fugitive Slave
I complained to my master of the treatment which I received from Major Freeland; but it made no difference. He cared nothing about it, so long as he received the money for my labor. After living with Major Freeland five or six months, I ran away, and went into the woods back of the city; and when night came on, I made my way to my master's farm, knowing that if Mr. Haskell, the overseer,

17. Anticipatory Set
should discover me, I should be again carried back to Major Freeland; so I kept in the woods. One day, while in the woods, I heard the barking and howling of dogs, and in a short time they came so near that I knew them to be the bloodhounds of Major Benjamin O'Fallon. He kept five or six, to hunt runaway slaves with.
As soon as I was convinced that it was them, I knew there was no chance of escape. I took refuge in the top of a tree and the hounds were soon at its base, and there remained until the hunters came

18. Anticipatory Set
up in a half or three quarters of an hour afterwards. There were two men with the dogs, who, as soon as they came up, ordered me to descend. I came down, was tied, and taken to St. Louis jail. Major Freeland soon made his appearance, and took me out, and ordered me to follow him, which I did. After we returned home I was tied up in the smokehouse, and was very severely whipped. After the major had flogged me to his satisfaction, he sent out his son Robert, a young man eighteen or twenty years of age, to see

19. Anticipatory Set
that I was well smoked. He made a fire of tobacco stems, which soon set me to coughing and sneezing. This, Robert told me, was the way his father used to do to his slaves in Virginia. After giving me what they conceived to be a decent smoking, I was untied and again set to work.

20. Steps Step 1: Read the first assigned passage.
Step 2: What is the point of view in the first passage?

21. Steps Step 3: Use textual evidence to show the point of view.
Step 4: Read the second assigned passage.

22. Steps Step 5: What is the point of view in the second passage?
Step 6: Use textual evidence to show the point of view.

23. Steps
Step 7: Copy the following chart and explain what each text is saying in your own words.

24. Steps
Text 1:
Text 2:

25. Steps Step 8: How are these texts similar, connected, or related?
Step 9: What specific lines and details echo each other or connect?

26. Steps
Step 10: How are the two texts different in terms of subject matter, central idea, purpose, or tone?
Step 11: What specific lines and details disagree with each other?

27. Steps
Step 12: How does reading both texts help you see or understand things about the topic that you might not
if you read them separately?
Step 13: Provide textual evidence to support your answer.

28. Textual Evidence
How are the following texts similar? How are they different?
Both texts deal with the mistreatment of a slave and the want to report these behaviors to the slave master. In excerpt one, Douglass has decided that he should make the journey to ask for the protection of the master. In excerpt two, Brown has found that he will not get any protection from his master and decides that he will try to run away to provide his own protection.

29. Flip Slip: What do you Remember?
Remember: Rewrite this week’s skill in your own words.
In your own words, define the vocabulary words from this week.

30. Flip Slip: What do you understand?
Understand: Write the steps in chronological order.
*What specific lines and details disagree with each other?
*What is the point of view in the second passage?
*What specific lines and details echo each other or connect?
* Select and copy a line(s) that uses rhetoric to show the point of view.
* How are these texts similar, connected, or related?

31. Apply
Follow steps 1-13, using the given passage.