Bell Ringer
1. Turn in any late/absent work to the class
inbox.
2. If you were present last class, complete the
Eponyms Bell Ringer. Hold on to the bell
ringer. If you were absent, complete the
Week 17 Quiz. Turn-in the quiz.
3. Take out your planner and update the home
learning.
Bell Ringer Review
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Page 27 – Part B
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Saturnine
Sequoia
Laconic
Mesmerize
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Bell Ringer Review
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2. Cardigan
3. Zinnia
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TOTAL: ______/24
Boycott
Cardigan
Saturnine
Derricks
Bacitracin
Zinnias
Mesmerized
Sequoia
Maverick
Laconic
Housekeeping
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Study for the Week 18 Eponyms Quiz by
choosing one study method from the choice
menu.
Week 18 Quiz will be on 2/19 (A) & 2/18 (B).
Recycle the Week 17 Quiz. Due 2/19 (A) & 2/18
(B).
There is No School next Monday. Make-Up
Monday is canceled for 2/17.
Complete Holt workbook pg. 117 - 132 “That
October”
Pronouns
Point of View
Just who is telling this story?
TODAY’S STANDARDS
RL.6.6
Explain how an author develops the
point of view of the narrator or
speaker in a text.
Today’s Learning Objectives
• Identify the narrator in a story
• Learn about the differences between
– First-person point of view
– Second-person point of view
– Third-person point of view
• Omniscient
• Limited
Warm-Up
Bird by Angela Johnson
“I’ve been eating off their unfinished
breakfasts for about three weeks
now and they don’t even notice it.
They don’t notice that somebody’s
been in their house either.”
What is the point of view?
Who is telling the story?
Warm-Up
Series of Unfortunate Events:
The Reptile Room by Lemony Snicket
“So I must tell you that if you have opened
this book in the hope of finding out that the
children lived happily ever after, you might
as well shut it and read something else.”
What is the point of view?
Who is telling the story?
Warm-Up
Because of Winn Dixie
by Kate DeCamillo
“My name is India Opal Buloni, and last
summer, my daddy, the preacher, sent me
to the store for a box of macaroni-andcheese, some white rice and two
tomatoes and I came back with a dog.”
What is the point of view?
Who is telling the story?
Vocabulary
Copy these definitions into your comp book.
Point of View
There are several different points of view:
• 1st person point of view
• 2nd person point of view
• 3rd person point of view
First Person Point of View
The narrator is a character IN the story telling
his/her own story by sharing their thoughts and
perspectives.
Clue words (first-person pronouns): I, me, we
As I walked up the hill, I realized that the atmosphere
was just too quiet. There was no sound from the cardinal
who was nearly always singing from the top of the maple
tree. I thought I saw a shadow move high up on the slope,
but when I looked again it was gone. Still, I shuddered as I
felt a silent threat pass over me like a cloud over the sun.
Second Person Point of View
The narrator turns the reader into the character.
Clue word (second-person pronouns): you
As you walked up the hill, you realized that the
atmosphere was just too quiet. There was no sound from
the cardinal who was nearly always singing from the top of
the maple tree. You thought you saw a shadow move high
up on the slope, but when you looked again it was gone.
Still, you shuddered as you felt a silent threat pass over you
like a cloud over the sun.
Third Person Point of View
The narrator is not a character, but the “story
teller”. They often are “all knowing” revealing
what the character is thinking and feeling.
Clue words (third-person pronouns):
he, she, him, her, they
As she walked up the hill, she realized that the
atmosphere was just too quiet. There was no sound from
the cardinal who was nearly always singing from the top of
the maple tree. She thought she saw a shadow move high
up on the slope, but when she looked again it was gone.
Still, she shuddered as she felt a silent threat pass over her
like a cloud over the sun.
What is the point of view?
• Bird
• Series of Unfortunate Events:
The Reptile Room
• Because of Winn-Dixie
How does the author’s use of P.O.V
affect or add to the story?
Guided Practice
Identify each sentence as either firstperson or third-person point of view.
1st Person 1. I closed my eyes to meditate.
3rd Person 2. He thought he would join the circus.
1st Person 3. We hurried so we wouldn’t get a tardy.
1st Person 4. How would we all fit in my mom’s car?
3rd Person 5. “You never let me go,” the boy cried.
TRICKY ONE: A 3rd Person narrator can report a
character’s exact words using quotation marks.
Let’s Practice It
Second-Person
Point of View
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.
Let’s Practice It
Third-Person
Point of View
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.
Group Practice
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?”
Look for the signal words (pronouns). Identify the point of view.
Group Practice
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.
Look for the signal words (pronouns). Identify the point of view.
Group Practice
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.
Look for the signal words (pronouns). Identify the point of view.
Group Practice
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.
Look for the signal words (pronouns). Identify the point of view.
Group Practice
The 7 Habits of Highly Defective Teens
By Sean Covey
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.
Look for the signal words (pronouns). Identify the point of view.
Group Practice
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.
Look for the signal words (pronouns). Identify the point of view.
Group Practice
The 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.
Look for the signal words (pronouns). Identify the point of view.
Work Period
• Summarize your p.o.v. cornell
notes.
• Read Ch. 1 – 6 of A Wrinkle in
Time continuing to fill out your
Sci Fi. Elements tracking chart.
• Pay attention to point of view
as you read.
Closing
• List the different types of point
of view & how you can tell
them apart from one another.
• How does the author’s use of
P.O.V affect or add to the
story?