Week Seven: Point of View Reading Bellwork Week Seven: Point of View

Monday Write the definitions for: 1. Point of View (POV): The perspective from which a narrative is told. 2. First Person POV – told from the perspective of a character in story using pronouns (I or me). Audience is limited to the viewpoint of that character. 3. Third Person Omniscient POV– told from the perspective of an “all knowing” narrator who is not a character. 4. Third Person Limited POV – told from the perspective of a narrator revealing the thoughts and knowledge of some but not all characters.

Tuesday Write out the sentences and label the type of point of view: “I felt like I was getting drowned with shame and disgrace.” “Mr. Stewart is a principled man. He acts by the book and never lets others deceive him easily.” “Sometimes you cannot clearly discern between anger and frustration.”

Wednesday Complete the sentences. 1. Tangerine is written in ______________point of view. 2. The point of view used in both The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle and Freak the Mighty: ______________________________________________ 3. Third person point of views use pronouns such as _________ , ___________ , and ______________. Two Column Journaling

Thursday Complete the sentences. Young adult novels are often written in first person __________________. An omniscient narrator is __________ and __________. The story “Flowers for Algernon” is written from a ______________ POV.

Friday Through what point of view is your reading told? What lets you know this? How would the reading be different if the point of view changed? Two Column Journaling