1. Writing in the First Person
Animate or Inanimate?

2. Definition Animate: possessing or characterized by life
Inanimate: not endowed with life or spirit

3. Animate or Inanimate?
Rock
Frog

4. Animate or Inanimate?
Water
House

5. Animate or Inanimate?
Teacher
Ladder

6. Animate or Inanimate?
Friend
Mother

7. Animate or Inanimate?
Computer
Tree

8. Animate or Inanimate?
Fish
Mountain

9. Animate or Inanimate?
Butterfly
Bananas

10. Animate or Inanimate?
Cage
Pencil

11. Animate or Inanimate?
Moon
Constellation

12. Animate or Inanimate?
Basketball
Camera

13. Animate or Inanimate?
Spoon

14. Writing in the First Person
Once you have classified each noun, select one inanimate object and spend a few minutes imagining what that object might see, feel, think, say, do (or be used doing). What would the world look like form the perspective of that object? What experiences, observations, and thoughts might that object have or make? How would that object speak? What ideas might it share? What stories might it tell? What abstract ideas of concepts might you symbolize?

15. Creating a Word Web
Create a word web in the space on your paper to record your point of view ideas. Pretend that you are:
The ______________________
English
Segerstrom
Attentive to student’s
needs
Juniors
TEACHER
Freshmen
Mentor/Role
Model
Helpful/Tutoring