Tuesday, October 5th

Objective: Students will learn three possible points of view: omniscient, first person, and third person. They will know they have learned this when they can identify 3 different types of point of view with 85% accuracy. 


Do Now: What is "point of view"? 

"The Blind Men and the Elephant"



The Blind Men and the Elephant: video











"The House"


POINT OF VIEW   Vantage point from which a writer tells a story. In broad terms there are three possible points of view: omniscient, first person, and third person limited.
Use the HANDBOOK OF LITERARY TERMS in your text book to define the three possible points of view:


1.  omniscient (or “all-knowing”) point of view: 


2. first-person point of view: 

•     unreliable narrator-

3. third-person-limited point of view:




Point of View : video

POV handout

POV definitions



Personal Narrative:
Editing: Checklist 


Exit Ticket: Choose from these points of view: first person, third person omniscient, third person limited

1.  From Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli  

So he turned and started walking north on Hector, right down the middle of the street, right down the invisible chalk line that divided East End from West End.  Cars beeped at him, drivers hollered, but he never flinched.  The Cobras kept right along with him on their side of the street.  So did a bunch of East Enders on their side.  One of them was Mars Bar.  Both sides were calling for him to come over. 

Point of view? _________________________________ 

2.  From I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou 

For one whole semester the streetcars and I shimmied up and scooted down the sheer hills of San Francisco.  I lost some of my need for the Black ghetto’s shielding-sponge quality, as I clanged and cleared my way down Market Street, with its honky-tonk homes from homeless sailors, past the quiet retreat of Golden Gate Park and along closed undwelled-in-looking dwellings of the Sunset District. 

Point of View? _________________________________ 

3. From “Pictures on a Rock” by Brent Ashabranner 

 One spring day a few years before the Rough Rock Demonstration School was opened, a five-year- old Navajo boy named Fred Bia was watching the family sheep flock in the arid countryside near the little town.  It was his daily chore to follow the sheep as they drifted over the red, rocky earth in their endless search for grass and leaves of semi-desert plants. 

Point of View? _________________________________