1. Craft and Structure
Objective
Students will be able to analyze worldly points of view through literature.

2. Craft and Structure

3. Flip Slips
Practice STEPS TO Skill or Problem
How can point of view affect the humor of a piece of writing?
STEP PREP Procedures
Skill Language
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Vocab Breakdown
Prior Knowledge
Textual Evidence
Anticipation
(1 Practice Problem Before Procedures )

4. Skill Focus
The skill for this week is......
Analyze how an author develops and contrasts the points of view of different characters or narrators in a text. Analyze how differences in the points of view of the characters and the audience or reader (e.g., created through the use of dramatic irony) create such effects as suspense or humor. Analyze a particular point of view or cultural experience reflected in a work of literature from outside the United States, drawing on a wide reading of world literature.

5. Skill Focus In other words,
Analyze points of view from other cultures in literature and determine how the point of view influences literary effects.

6. Copy the following words:
Vocabulary
Copy the following words:
Analyze
Suspense
Humor
Cultural
Literature
Point of View

7. Vocabulary Strategy: Word Analysis
Under “My Definition,” write the definition for each word. Next, use the word in a sentence. Below “My Definition” under “Synonym” write two words that are similar to the vocabulary word. Finally, under “Antonym” write two words that are opposite.

8. Vocabulary
Analyze: breaking down information with supporting evidence.
Suspense: excitement caused by wondering what will happen.
Humor: the quality of a literary or informative work that makes the character and/or situations seem funny, amusing, or ludicrous.

9. Vocabulary
Cultural: relating to the beliefs, social practices, and characteristics of a racial, religious, or social group.
Literature: written works having excellence of form or expression and ideas of lasting and widespread interest.

10. Vocabulary
Point of view: is the perspective from which things are considered, which shows the opinion, or feelings of the individuals involved in a situation. First person P.O.V. involves the use of either of the two pronouns “I” and “We”. Second person P.O.V. uses the pronoun”you”. Third person P.O.V. uses pronouns like “he”, “she”, “it”, “they”, or a name.

11. Prior Knowledge
Why do you think point of view varies from person to person?
How can a person’s point of view be influenced by their culture?
Have you ever had a disagreement with someone from a different culture?

12. Anticipatory Set
Read the following passage. What is the point of view? How do you think culture influences this point of view? Use textual evidence to support your answer.

13. Anticipatory Set
In Antigua, people speak of slavery as if it had been a pageant full of large ships sailing on blue water, the large ships filled up with human cargo—their ancestors; they got off, they were forced to work under conditions that were cruel and inhuman, they were beaten, they were murdered, they were sold, their children were taken from them and these separations lasted forever, there were many other bad things, and then suddenly, the whole thing came to an end in
-from A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid

14. Anticipatory Set
something called emancipation. Then they speak of emancipation itself as if it happened just the other day, not over one hundred and fifty years ago. The word “emancipation” is used so frequently, it is as if it, emancipation, were a contemporary occurrence, something everybody is familiar with. And perhaps there is something in that, for an institution that is often celebrated in Antigua is the Hotel Training School, a school that teaches Antiguans how to be good servants, how to be a good nobody, which is what a servant is.
-from A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid

15. Anticipatory Set
In Antigua, people cannot see a relationship between their obsession with slavery and emancipation and their celebration of the Hotel Training School (graduation ceremonies are broadcast on radio and television); people cannot see a relationship between their obsession with slavery and emancipation and the fact that they are governed by corrupt men, or that these corrupt men have given their country away to corrupt foreigners.
-from A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid

16. Steps Step 1: Read the assigned text.
Step 2: Who are the characters within the text? What is the point of view of these characters?
Step 3: Do the characters fall into a specific culture?

17. Steps Step 4: Using evidence, describe the culture of the characters?
Step 5: Describe how the character’s culture is different or similar to your own.

18. Steps
Step 6: Reread the text and take notes highlighting two character’s:
1. Actions
2. Physical Descriptions
3. Character’s Point of View

19. Steps
Step 7: Given what you know about the character’s, how do you think each will react next?
Step 8:Would each character’s actions be accepted in your culture? Why or why not?

20. Steps Step 9: Do you think the characters follow a stereotype?
Step 10: What evidence do you have to support your opinion?

21. Steps Step 11: Do you connect with character more than other?
Step 12: Explain your reasoning for the previous step using textual evidence.

22. Steps
Step 13: Does the point of view create humor or suspense in the passage?
Step 14: Use textual evidence to show how humor or suspense is created through the use of point of view. Use a direct quote (not a paraphrase).

23. Steps
Step 15: Why do you believe the author uses humor or suspense in the passage?
Step 16: What evidence do you have to support your opinion?

24. Textual Evidence
Read the following passage. What is the point of view? How do you think culture influences this point of view? Use textual evidence to support your answer.

25. Textual Evidence
In Antigua, people speak of slavery as if it had been a pageant full of large ships sailing on blue water, the large ships filled up with human cargo—their ancestors; they got off, they were forced to work under conditions that were cruel and inhuman, they were beaten, they were murdered, they were sold, their children were taken from them and these separations lasted forever, there were many other bad things, and then suddenly, the whole thing came to an end in
-from A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid

26. Textual Evidence
something called emancipation. Then they speak of emancipation itself as if it happened just the other day, not over one hundred and fifty years ago. The word “emancipation” is used so frequently, it is as if it, emancipation, were a contemporary occurrence, something everybody is familiar with. And perhaps there is something in that, for an institution that is often celebrated in Antigua is the Hotel Training School, a school that teaches Antiguans how to be good servants, how to be a good nobody, which is what a servant is.
-from A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid

27. Textual Evidence
In Antigua, people cannot see a relationship between their obsession with slavery and emancipation and their celebration of the Hotel Training School (graduation ceremonies are broadcast on radio and television); people cannot see a relationship between their obsession with slavery and emancipation and the fact that they are governed by corrupt men, or that these corrupt men have given their country away to corrupt foreigners.
-from A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid

28. Textual Evidence
The passage is written in third person. The narrator speaks of the occurrences in Antigua as one who knows about the history and how this history has impacted the people of Antigua. The narrator also seems to be apart from those people, in that he/she makes ironic connections that seem to be outside of the scope of the Antiguan people. “people cannot see a relationship between their obsession with slavery and emancipation and the fact that they are governed by corrupt men.”

29. Flip Slip: What do you Remember?
Remember: Rewrite this week’s skill in your own words.
In your own words, define the vocabulary words from this week.

30. Flip Slip: What do you understand?
Understand: Write the steps in chronological order.
* How would the character’s actions be accepted or viewed in your culture?
* Does the point of view create humor or suspense in the passage?
* Describe how the character’s culture is different or similar to your own
*Do you think the characters follow a stereotype?
*Do the characters fall into a specific culture?

31. Apply
Follow steps 1-16 for the assigned reading.