PERSUASIVE JOURNAL Make sure you have an article to respond to today. If you didn’t bring one, take one from the folder. (Note: You won’t lose homework credit this first time, but next time you will. Our next persuasive journal is on 10/16 for A day & 10/19 on B Day. Make sure you have a persuasive article for then.) Respond to the article you brought to class. Do you agree or disagree with the author? Why or why not? Try to use specific examples or quotes from your article.

POINT-OF-VIEW! Closely allied to the concept of voice is point of view. Point of view as a literary technique is a complex and specific concept, dealing with vantage point. An author’s view of the world, as it is and as it ought to be, will ultimately be revealed by manipulation of the point of view, but not vice versa. First Person- “I” Second Person – “You” Third Person- “He, She, etc…”

THIRD PERSON POINT OF VIEW- OBJECTIVE

THIRD PERSON POINT OF VIEW- LIMITED

THIRD PERSON OMNISCIENT

WHILE YOU READ… Sticky note or mark for Point of View Today, your reading reflection will involve your analysis of these devices.

READING REFLECTION #2: POINT OF VIEW In your novel, explain what the Point of View in your novel is and explain what affect it has on the reader. Use at least two quotes to back up your answer. The novel is told from Scout’s perspective which creates an interesting division between reality and perspective. Because she is a child, she hasn’t formed society’s built in prejudices. The reader is forced to look at them through the unbiased eye of a child. For example, Scout does not understand why Aunt Alexandra says that “[Scout] will not invite Walter Cunningham to this house… Because—he—is—trash” (Lee 224). Scout sees Walter as a nice boy; she does not see that she is from a higher class and should not socialize with someone from a lower class. Later on in the novel, we see her childlike perspective when she is at school and the children are giving current events. In the story it says, “Why she frowned when a child recited from the Grit Paper, I never knew, but in some way it was associated with liking fiddling, eating syrupy biscuits for lunch, being a holy-roller, singing Sweetly Sings the Donkey and pronouncing it dunkey, all of which the state paid teachers to discourage” (244). While Scout recognizes the differences between her and the kids who are bused in from the rural community, she cannot comprehend why the adults view them negatively.