Invitation to Write: Prep. Phrases Tues., Nov. 1, 2016 5 min. Supplies needed: *Writing journal or looseleaf for notes *Writing utensil Homework: *Study notes on point of view and grammar *Grammar assessment: Mon., 11/7 1. Date and label an entry in your writing journal. 2. Write two sentences: one with the prepositional phrase in the beginning, and one with phrase in middle or at end. 3. Put brackets around each prepositional phrase (Refer to your notes as necessary). 4. Copy HW if time permits.
OUTCOMES I can identify different types of point of view. I can explain how the author develops the point of view in an excerpt of text.
POINT of VIEW From whose perspective...?
1st Person POV I My Us Me We Our
First person Narrator Uses I Story is told from a main character s POV.
First person Narrator Advantages: Readers see events from the perspective of an important character. Readers often understand the main character s feelings and thoughts.
First person Narrator Disadvantages: The narrator may be unreliable (for example, insane, immature, deceptive, biased, etc.) Readers see only one perspective.
First person Narrator How is the point of view developed? I sneak a look at my reflection when she isn t paying attention not for the sake of vanity, but out of curiosity. A lot can happen to a person s appearance in three months. In my reflection, I see a narrow face, wide, round eyes, and a long, thin nose I still look like a little girl, though sometime in the last few months I turned sixteen. -Veronica Roth, Divergent (2011)
2 nd Person POV You Yours Your Yourself
2 nd Person POV A second person POV is rare. Uses you and presents commands
2 nd Person POV Wash the white clothes on Monday and put them on the stone heap; wash the color clothes on Tuesday and put them on the clothesline to dry; don't walk barehead in the hot sun; cook pumpkin fritters in very hot sweet oil; soak your little cloths right after you take them off; when buying cotton to make yourself a nice blouse, be sure that it doesn't have gum on it, because that way it won't hold up well after a wash; soak salt fish overnight before you cook it -Jamaica Kincaid, Girl
3 rd Person POV Omniscient Limited Objective
Omniscient All knowing the narrator can see into the minds of ALL characters
3 rd Person POV: Omniscient godlike narrator can enter character's minds knows everything that is going on, past, present, and future narrator is from outside the text
3 rd Person POV: Omniscient How is the point of view developed? Mrs. Freed stopped smiling. She was sick and tired of anything to do with the word frindle. When asked about the poster outside the office door, Mrs. Chatham laughed and said, Oh, that? It s nothing really. The principal s laugh sounded phony to Judy Morgan. -Andrew Clements, Frindle (1996)
Limited Narrator can see into ONE character s mind.
3 rd Person POV: Limited All characters have thought privacy except ONE.
3 rd Person POV: Limited Harry s heart gave a horrible jolt. A test? In front of the whole school? But he didn t know any magic yet what on earth would he have to do? He hadn t expected something like this the moment they arrived. He looked around anxiously and saw that everyone else looked terrified, too. -J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer s Stone
3rd Person POV: Objective Narrator only describes and does not enter characters thoughts.
3rd Person POV: Objective Like a video camera, the narrator can only tell what is said (dialogue) and done (actions).
3rd Person POV: Objective The narrator adds no comment about how the characters are feeling.
3rd Person POV: Objective The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green. The people of the village began to gather in the square, between the post office and the bank, around ten o clock; in some towns there were so many people that the lottery took two days and had to be started on June 26th, but in this village, where there were only about three hundred people, the whole lottery took less than two hours, so it could begin at ten o clock in the morning and still be through in time to allow the villagers to get home for noon dinner. -Shirley Jackson, The Lottery (1948)
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.
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, and what is the use of a Book, thought Alice aloud, without pictures or conversations? So she was considering, in her own mind whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.
And we scrounged. Next to survival, scrounge was probably the most important word in out new vocabulary. We found a store that was throwing out water-damaged mattresses. Getting them home was a problem, since we had to make two trips, leaving Brad and Katie, armed with sticks to guard over the remained. I truly expected them to be challenged by some gang boss, but they said that the only person who came by was a scrawny little rat of a girl living alone.
Jonathan a weak but honest man entered the restaurant, and found Margie waiting at a back table. He notified the waiter and sat down next to Margie, playing with his tie to keep down his nerves. Margie was a harsh woman, and it was impossible for Jonathan to predict how she would react to his news. The company Margie was heavily invested in had been struggling for a while. If it collapsed, she would lose nearly a hundred million dollars. She noticed Jonathan s nervousness and frowned.
At the pizza place, Tony the baker was getting the pizzas ready for baking. He flattened out a ball of dough into a large pancake and tossed it in the air. He spread tomato sauce on it, sprinkled it with cheese, and shoved it in the oven. Then the telephone rang. A fellow from the factory wants a large pizza delivered in a hurry, Tony s wife called.
CLOSURE How is the point of view developed for Passage 5? Refer to your notes on the Objective POV. Record your answer on the back of the sheet.