Contrasting Points of View

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Contrasting Points of View
LR 3.5 Initial Instruction and Guided Practice
Americas
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What is Point of View?Point of view is the
point from which someone views a scene.
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Contrasting Points of View

• Fiction
• point of view
• may also be called perspective
• first-person point of view
• the narrator is a character in the story
• the narrator uses first-person pronouns such as
  I, me, we, and us
• as the narrator tells the story, the words and
  phrases he or she uses are clues to his or her
  character

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Contrasting Points of View

• second- person point of viewvery rarely used,
  but lets mention it.
• the narrator is outside of the story, speaking
  directly to the main character
• sometimes used in poetry
• pronouns such as you and yours
• third-person point of view
• the narrator is not a character in the story
• the narrator uses third-person pronouns such as
  he, she, it, they and them

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Contrasting Points of View

• Your Turn
• Read the following excerpts
• Determine whether each excerpt is written in
  first-person or third-person point of view
• Explain how you reached this conclusion

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Contrasting Points of View

• Excerpt 1
• Joe reached down to pick up the glass around
  Evas bare feet. She didnt move, but he could
  feel the anger she hid with her smile.
• That, she thought to herself, is the last
  straw.

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Contrasting Points of View

• Excerpt 1
• First-Person Point of View
• or
• Third-Person Point of View
• The narrator is NOT part of the story.
• The narrator actually uses third-person pronouns
  like he and she.

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Contrasting Points of View

• Excerpt 2
• They are coming now, the invaders. I saw them
  with my own eyes! pleaded the young Aztec. I
  watched his eyes search from face to face, but I
  could see what he saw, doubt. Why dont you
  believe me? he begged. Is it because I am but a
  lowly farmer he started.
• Relax, I mused, condescendingly. Get yourself
  something to eat, and a bath if you can find
  one. The rest of us laughed together at his fear.

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Contrasting Points of View

• Excerpt 2
• First-Person Point of View
• or
• Third-Person Point of View
• Determine who is telling the story.
• The narrator is part of the story.
• The narrator actually uses first-person pronouns
  like I and us.

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Contrasting Points of View

• Within third person point of view, the reader
  must differentiate between
• third-person omniscient point of view
• all knowing
• allows the narrator to relate the thoughts and
  feelings of several, if not all, the storys
  characters
• third-person limited point of view
• the narrator tells us what only one character
  thinks, feels, and observes

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Discuss with a neighbor and respond

• How does the point of view affect the story?
• How does the narrators perspective affect the
  way you, the reader, interpret the events and
  characters?
• How would the story be different if it were told
  from another point of view?
• The writers choice of point of view determines
  what and how information is presented to the
  reader. What the readers knows and feels about
  the characters and events of the story is shaped
  by the point of view.

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Contrasting Points of View

• Your Turn
• Read the following excerpts
• Determine whether each excerpt is written in a
  third-person omniscient or limited point of view.
  
• Explain how the writers point of view affects
  the theme. For example, if the theme is Things
  arent always what they seem, the writer may
  choose the third-person omniscient point of view
  to show the reader all sides of the characters.
• Explain how you reached this conclusion.

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Contrasting Points of View

• Excerpt 3

The young Aztec studied the long, lean face of
the king, trying to read anything from his face.
But the kings face showed only indifference. The
young Aztec turned his attention to the unskilled
laborers. Is one of them sleeping? he wondered,
disbelievingly, to himself. He wanted to run over
to the field and yank the man awake again. A
city-states life was on the line, and all the
laborer could do was work aimlessly. Pay
attention! willed the young Aztec toward the
entire field of workers.
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Contrasting Points of View

• Excerpt 3
• Third-Person Omniscient Point of View
• or
• Third-Person Limited Point of View
• Study the thoughts carefully.
• The only person the reader can understand the
  actual thoughts of is the young Aztec.

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Contrasting Points of View

• Excerpt 4

The young priests were tired from working hard to
develop a calendar for their crops based on
astronomy. The youngest of the three, looked to
his elders and shook his head, meaning he
couldnt go on another moment. The taller of the
elders nodded, scratched his face in agreement.
The other priest stated emphatically, Our king
will not to be patient, we must press on.
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Contrasting Points of View

• Excerpt 4
• Third-Person Omniscient Point of View
• or
• Third-Person Limited Point of View
• Study the thoughts carefully
• The reader can actually understand the actual
  thoughts of three different characters.

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Subjective vs. ObjectivePoints of View
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Contrasting Points of View

• subjective point of view
• contains a mixture of facts and opinions
• allows the writer to include his or her opinion
  in a story
• objective point of view
• like a news article
• ideally free of the authors personal opinions
• strictly reports facts

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Contrasting Points of View

• Your Turn
• Read the following excerpts
• Determine whether each excerpt is written in a
  subjective or objective point of view
• Explain how you reached this conclusion

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Contrasting Points of View

• Excerpt 5

The Mayan people settled in the Peten, a dense
forest in present day Guatemala. The swampy
location gave them a constant source of water.
Sinkholes, areas where the earth has collapsed,
connected the Maya with a huge system of
underground rivers.
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Contrasting Points of View

• Excerpt 5
• Subjective Point of View
• or
• Objective Point of View
• Narrative is factual
• Some of the text may sound like opinion, but it
  could be substantiated with further research

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Contrasting Points of View

• Excerpt 6
• Mayan rulers believed they were descended from
  the sun. They claimed they were god-kings and
  expected their people to serve them. The Mayans
  worshiped gods and tried to please them through
  sacrifice, which is stupid and doesnt make any
  sense to civilized human beings.

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Contrasting Points of View

• Excerpt 5
• Subjective Point of View
• or
• Objective Point of View
• Narrative starts with factual information then
  moves on to opinion.

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First-PersonAutobiographyvs.Third-PersonBiogra
phyPoints of View
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Contrasting Points of View

• Nonfiction
• Autobiography
• auto self
• bio life
• graphy writing
• An autobiography is the story of a persons life
  told by that person
• It is written from the first-person point of
  view using pronouns like I and me

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Contrasting Points of View

• Nonfiction
• Autobiography
• The writer tells about past events from the
  perspective of being older and wiser
• Often provides revealing insights into the
  writers attitudes toward the events that shaped
  his or her life
• Helps the reader understand the society in which
  the writer lived

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Contrasting Points of View

• Nonfiction
• Autobiography
• Usually book length because it covers a long
  period of the writers life
• Shorter forms of autobiographical writings
  include

• journals
• diaries
• letters
• memoirs

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Contrasting Points of View

• Nonfiction
• Autobiography
• Can be written to

• entertain
• persuade
• inform
• express an opinion

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Contrasting Points of View

• Nonfiction
• Biography
• bio life
• graphy writing
• A biography is the story of a persons life as
  told by someone else
• It is written from the third-person point of
  view using pronouns like her and she

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Contrasting Points of View

• Nonfiction
• Biography
• The writer, or biographer, gets information by
  conducting interviews and by reading letters,
  diaries, and documents
• Biographies contain some of the same elements as
  fiction, such as setting and characters
• Unlike fiction, the purpose of biographies is to
  present an accurate account of the subjects life

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Contrasting Points of View

• Your Turn
• Read the following excerpts
• Determine whether each excerpt is written in
  first-person or third-person point of view
• Decide whether the point of view makes it an
  autobiography or a biography

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Contrasting Points of View

• Excerpt 7
• Pachacuti was the greatest of the Incan
  leaders. He built the largest empire in the
  Americas by creating a system of roads and
  insisting that all captured people speak the
  Incan language known as Quechua.
• With his son, Topa, Pachacuti and the Incas
  developed terraced farming and gave jobs to every
  member of the Incan society

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Contrasting Points of View

• Excerpt 7
• First-Person Point of View
• or
• Third-Person Point of View
• Autobiography
• or
• Biography

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Contrasting Points of View

• Excerpt 8
• In the beginning, because I felt, as only a
  young girl can feel it, all the pain of being an
  ugly duckling. I was not only timid. I was
  afraid. Afraid of almost everything. I think of
  mice, of the dark, of imaginary dangers, of my
  own inadequacy. My chief objective, as a girl,
  was to do my duty. This had been drilled into me
  as far back as I could remember. Not my duty as I
  saw it, but my duty as laid down for me by other
  people

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Contrasting Points of View

• Excerpt 8
• First-Person Point of View
• or
• Third-Person Point of View
• Autobiography
• or
• Biography