Point of View Practice
Narrative Perspective
Directions
1. We will read the passages.
2. You will determine the point of view.
3. Write your answers on a separate sheet
of paper.
4. Write at least one sentence explaining
your answer.
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.
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?”
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.
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.
Glinda 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.
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.