English – Research Unit! Reading – Editorials Wednesday, February 27th, 2013 English – Research Unit! Reading – Editorials

Persuasive Essay is due on Friday Everyone needs to work on a computer today for 10 minutes! Persuasive Essay is due on Friday

Welcome Mrs. McGuire… E-books

Easy Bib & WebSite Citing All books completely under desks and you need a pencil! Partners in AM Jen - Emily - Siddhi David – Mariah Michael - Tierra Matt – Derek Jon – Daniel Becca– Monserrat Sam - Osaze Shannen - absent

All books completely under desks and you need a pencil! Easy Bib & Book Citing All books completely under desks and you need a pencil! Partners in PM Drew – Emma Devon – Peter Zaina – Harris Kender – Colleen Audrey – Ali Kelly – Mackenzie Will – Zach Nico – Evan Liam – Kim Megan- Kenny

Job #1 Accessing Easybib Go to http://www.easybib.com Click on Register (free) or Log in Enter email address ______________________________ Create a password –first initial, last initial and ID# for example – MD12345 ___________________________ Click Create a New Project Type – Research 2013 then click Create Now click on Bibliography under Research 2013 Click on a specific tab to Cite a: Website, Book, Newspaper, etc… Click on Manual Entry (the default is always Autocite) to enter citation information Tips and Tools After you enter each source – Click on “tags” to assign it a number – this number will match the fact card number Notice in the bottom left of each citation it names the source type Click on Save as a Word Document when you are ready to print –may save to file and/or print Job #1

Try to limit your sources to: Today – Goal – find a valid website/database/encyclopedia article on Iroquois – find information on food, shelter, resources, miscellaneous. Try to limit your sources to: .gov .edu .org If stuck, use .com Remember your steps of research: Find a valid source. Cite the source on a card or in EasyBib (tag the source) Get a fact card – paraphrase the information

Once you decide that a source (book, website, magazine article, encyclopedia is good enough), you must completed either: A cite source card EasyBib source http://www.easybib.com/

Reading Review of POV

Read the following slides. Point of View Read the following slides.

Point of View (often abbreviated “POV”) refers to who is telling the story. There are four different points of view used in fiction writing. First Person Second Person Third Person Limited Third Person Omniscient Point of View

Use words such as I, my, me, myself. Point of View First Person — using I or we We ran so fast from the graveyard that our lungs were on fire. Use words such as I, my, me, myself.

Uses Words like You or Your Point of View Second Person — using You You ran so fast from the graveyard that your lungs were on fire. Uses Words like You or Your

Second Person Uses you and your You are going to the store to buy milk, and you will also buy orange juice. Your groceries are for breakfast tomorrow. Second Person

Third Person —using he, she, or they Point of View Third Person —using he, she, or they Third Person Limited — written from the point of view of a single character Phoebe stared at the crime scene. She waited for Ray to offer to take the lead on this case. But he didn’t, and she wondered why.

Marco felt like he had done something good for the community      Marco felt like he had done something good for the community. He felt like a helper and wanted to do more good things to assist those in need. But how did everybody else feel? How did Hannah and Zach feel about their work? He would have to talk to them to find out. 3rd Person, Limited

3rd-Person Limited Narrator reveals thoughts and feelings of one character. Chris liked Elma since the third-grade, but he had never found the nerve to tell her. But one sunny day, Chris said to Elma, “So… you want to go with me?” Emma blushed and said, “Ok” Chris smiled. Tells his internal thoughts Internal Narration is limited to Chris

3rd-Person Limited: One character’s thoughts. I like Elma. Ok. So, you want to go with me? Chris Elma 3rd-Person Limited: One character’s thoughts.

Third Person —using he, she, or they Point of View Third Person —using he, she, or they Third Person Omniscient — the narrator knows what all the characters think and feel Phoebe stared at the crime scene. She waited for Ray to offer to take the lead on this case. But he didn’t, and she wondered why. Earlier that day, the commander had pulled Ray aside and said, “You need to let Phoebe take the next case. She needs the experience,” Ray shrugged his shoulders and gave a nod. He was perfectly happy to step aside and see what Phoebe could do.

Third Person Omniscient This is a narrator that is not in the story but can follow any character around. It can jump from the main character to a minor one and back again. The reader knows anything the narrator wants to reveal. Omniscient means “all knowing” (like Santa Claus). Third Person Omniscient

Third-Person Omniscient In the third-person omniscient point of view, the writer is a non-participant but is able to see into and have unlimited knowledge about any or all of the characters. From this angle, the author can roam anywhere, see anything, and comment on or interpret events at will.      Marco felt like he had done something good for the community. He felt like a helper and wanted to do more good things to assist those in need. Marco wouldn't know it until he talked to them, but Hannah and Zach felt the same way, too. Hannah had not been able to sleep. She was excited at the thought of expanding their project. She was sure they could provide even more toys for the children next year! Zach was already planning ways to raise more money and get more people involved. He had even had a dream about how to do it!

Omni = All Scient = Knowing 3rd-Person Omniscient Omni = All Scient = Knowing Omniscient narrators tell more than one character’s thoughts or feelings. Chris had liked Elma since the third-grade. Little did he know that Elma liked him too. They both admired one another from a far, and waited. One day, Chris said to Elma, “So… you want to go with me?” Emma felt her stomach sink. She couldn’t believe it. Blushing, she said, “Ok.” Chris smiled. Omniscient narrator is all-knowing.

3rd-Person Omniscient: Two or more characters’ thoughts. Oh, I like Chris. I like Elma. Ok. Elma Chris Want to go with me? 3rd-Person Omniscient: Two or more characters’ thoughts.

Read the following examples. Use your notebook to write down the POV for each slide. Read the following examples.

Remember: Point of View First-Person: The narrator tells “I” or “my” story.  Also, this may be “we” or “our” story. Ex: We went to the store. Second-Person: The narrator tells “you” or “your” story, usually used for instructions. 
 Ex: First, you should wash your hands. Third-Person: The narrator tells “his” or “her” story and does not reveal any character’s thoughts or feelings.  Characters may reveal their feelings through actions or dialogue. Ex: He walked down the street.  A man drove by and yelled, “Hey, watch where you’re going!”

1. 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.

2nd Person

2. 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.

3rd Person, Limited

3. 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?”

1st Person

4. 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.

3rd Person, Omniscient

5. I Am Number Four By Pittacus Lore The man brings his legs over the front of the cot when the shake starts again. A longer, firmer shake, and another crash, this time closer. The man gets to his feet and walks slowly to the door. Silence. The boy sits up. “No,” the man whispers, and in that instant the blade of a sword, long and gleaming, made of a shining white metal that is not found on Earth, comes through the door and sinks deeply into the man’s chest.

3rd Person, Omniscient

6. The Magic School Bus: Inside the Human Body 6. 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. I knew trouble was about to start, because we knew Ms. Frizzle was the strangest teacher in the school.

1st Person

7. 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.

3rd Person, Omniscient

8. 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.

2nd Person

9. 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.

3rd Person, Limited

10. 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.

11. from The Voyages of Dr. Doolittle by Hugh Lofting Yes, it was a very pleasant life I lived in those days long ago—though of course I did not think so then. I was nine and a half years old. Like all boys, I wanted to grow up—not knowing how well off I was, with no cares and nothing to worry me. Always I longed for the time when I should be allowed to leave my father's house, to work on one of those brave ships, to sail down the river through the misty marshes to the sea—out into the world to seek my fortune.

1st Person

12. from Little Men by Louisa May Alcott The boy walked on. Through the soft spring rain that fell on the grass, he saw a large, square house. It was a welcoming-looking house with an old-fashioned porch and wide steps. Lights shone in many windows. He heard the hum of young voices. He felt it was hardly possible that the light and comfort within would be for a homeless boy like him. "I hope the lady will see me," he thought. He gave a timid rap on the door.

3rd Person, Limited

Practice Read each passage. Circle characters’ thoughts and feelings (as revealed by the narrator) Identify the narrator’s perspective (third-person objective, limited, etc.) Explain your answer Practice

Example Mr. Morton knew the students were running out of time, but he felt that he needed to give an example of the activity, so he did. One of his students raised his hand. “Yes?” Mr. Morton asked. “I know I’m going to have problems with this,” said the student. The student went on, “I mean, what about when characters reveal their thoughts through dialogue? Does that count?” Mr. Morton replied, “Not toward determining the narrator’s point of view.”

Writers don’t pick the POV by chance Writers don’t pick the POV by chance. They select it specifically to help tell the story in the best way. When reading a story, think of the POV that’s being used and try to come up with the reason that the author chose it. Which is used when?

Homework!   Choose one of the following events, and on your own paper, write the same story using first person, third person limited, and third person omniscient points of view.   competing against a best friend in a sports event breaking a prized possession of a parent or sibling losing the family pet discovering an old map in an attic with a circle drawn on it overhearing a rude comment made by someone you thought was a friend