1. Grammar Focus: Punctuation- Series Comma
For today’s entry: use at least three sentences with series commas. One should use a list of nouns (person, place or thing), one should be a listing of actions (verbs) and one should be a listing of adjectives (descriptive words). Circle the commas and write the proof above. Also, don’t forget to find an example quote from your reading.

2. Point-of-view!
The perspective from which the events in the story are told
Basic Points-of-View
First Person- “I”
Second Person – “You”
Third Person- “He, She, etc…”

3. Third Person Point of View- Objective

4. Third Person Point of View- Limited (Slanted)

5. Third Person Omniscient

6. “Girl” by Jamaica Kinkaid*
Use a star for significant information, devices, and strategies you notice. !
Use an exclamation point to indicate what you feel strongly about in the article. ?
Use a question mark next for parts that are confusing or next to any information that you’d like to explore further.

7. (repetition, punctuation)
Second reading D
Diction
(word choice) S
Syntax
(repetition, punctuation)
Details.
(Point of View)

8. “Ode to Coffee” by URAYOÁN NOEL*
Use a star for significant information, devices, and strategies you notice. !
Use an exclamation point to indicate what you feel strongly about in the article. ?
Use a question mark next for parts that are confusing or next to any information that you’d like to explore further.

9. F D Second reading Figurative Language Diction Details. (word choice)
(literary devices including similes, metaphors, allusions, personification) D
Diction
(word choice)
Details.
(Point of View)

10. Exit Ticket: Point of view
How does the point-of- view in the selection contribute to the overall theme of the work? You can choose the poem or the story.
The novel To Kill a Mockingbird uses first person limited point of view to convey the theme that when people judge one another before truly getting to know each other it can damage a society. The narrator is a very young girl named Scout, which creates an interesting division between reality and perspective. Because she is a child, she hasn’t formed society’s built in prejudices. We see her innocent perspective when she is at school and the children are giving current events in class. 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” (Lee 244). While Scout recognizes the differences between her and the kids who are bussed in from the rural community, she cannot comprehend why the adults view them negatively, which highlights the theme of the novel. Scout’s innocence as a narrator helps the reader understand that judging people too quickly can be harmful to a community.

11. Sentence Stems for Literary Analysis Paragraph
In the story Girl by Jamaica Kincaid, the author uses (name the POV) person point of view to convey the theme of come up with a theme for the story. In the story, the narrator is __________________________ speaking to ___________________. The narrator says, ______(insert textual evidence). The point of view makes the reader feel _____________________________. This reveals the theme of the story because __________________________________________________.

12. Persuasive Essay Practice (Homework)
Read the prompt carefully. It’s on your handout. You have to write a thesis statement and one body paragraph. You should use the story as an example, but DO NOT directly quote it. Paraphrase what happens from memory. This is STAAR practice.