Point+of+View

===**Point of View** === TEKS
 * Fiction-identify whether the narrator or speaker of a story is first or third person.
 * Non Fiction- Explain the difference in point of view between a biography and autobiography.

===**__Introducing Point of View Lesson:__** === Objective: Student will be able to identify if the narrator is speaking is first or third person.

Day 1 >> Example One: My head started to swim as I thought of the possibility that my friend might be the thief. “Why would you do it?” I asked, my voice cracking. >> Example Two: As I was walking down the street, I stopped dead in my tracks. There in front of me was a twenty-dollar bill lying on the ground. I looked >> around to see if I could spot the person who had dropped the bill. No one was around. I bent and picked-up the bill. “What should I do?” I >> said aloud. >> >> >> **Third-Person Point of View:** Story is told by an outside observer or character who is not involved in the story. Third-person pronouns such as him, he, she, and her are used in narration. First-person pronouns are only used in direct quotations. >> Example One: The doctor’s head started to swim as he thought of the possibility that his friend might be the thief. “Why would you do it?” he asked, his voice cracking. >> Example Two: As Jim was walking down the street, he stopped dead in his tracks. There in front of him was a twenty-dollar bill lying on the ground. Jim >> looked around to see if he could spot the person who had dropped the bill. No one was around. He bent and picked-up the bill. “What should I do,” he said aloud. Day 2-4 Guided Reading: Practice identifying Point of View in Guided Reading.
 * Students and teacher will physically demonstrate the differences of first and third person within a play-acting experience of a family setting the table together. Make up a pretend table and have several volunteers come up to the front of the classroom and help you pretend set the table. Demonstrate first person point of view by narrating how you and your family set a table. Next, have them do the same thing but you are looking through the window as a “guest”, who was observing this experience would then describe what they observed to indicate third person point of view. The first person narrator should be using target vocabulary such as “I,” “we,” “my” etc. as compared to the vocabulary of the guest narrator who would use: “he,” “she,” “they” or the names of the various “actors.”
 * Discuss and/or Create a Venn Diagram to compare the two plays. Draw students attention to the pronouns used in each.
 * Show the Powerpoint and compare the pronouns used the in the powerpoint to the ones used in the plays. The examples go with the poetry unit too :) [[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/x-zip.png height="32" link="http://tves3rdgradereading.wikispaces.com/file/view/Point+of+View.pptx"]] [|Point of View.pptx]
 * Create a chart that explains Point of View with key words:
 * **First-Person Point of View:** A first-person point of view means that one of the characters is telling the story. First-person pronouns such as I, me, and my are used in narration.

===**__Additional Point of View Resources:__** ===


 * Read "Two Bad Ants" and use the following chart to compare a humans viewpoint to an ants.[[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/pdf.png height="32" link="http://tves3rdgradereading.wikispaces.com/file/view/point+of+view+chart+for+two+bad+ants.pdf"]] [|point of view chart for two bad ants.pdf]
 * "First read The Three Little Pigs and then the book the True Story of the Three Little Pigs. The second one is written from the wolf's point of view and differs from the traditional story. Do a Venn Diagram or another story web of your choice to compare and contrast the stories. Another book that is good to show point of view, is Two Bad Ants by Chris Van Allsburg. It is illustrated by the ants point of view and how they see things in their world. Great illustrations.
 * Writing Activity lesson in which students write different points of view of different types of shoews [|SHOE WRITING]

===**__Links__:** ===

===**__Books:__** === It's perfect because a mother and her daughter switch bodies and suddenly see things in a whole new light! Many of the students have seen the movie and enjoy reading the book. This is an extremely interesting and cleverly written story about the first African-American woman to become a pilot. Each page tells the story from a different person's point of view. All of the storytellers knew Bessie Coleman. It is a perfect story for the dramatically inclined students to act out.
 * //Freaky Friday//** by Mary Rodgers
 * //Talkin' About Bessie//** by Nikki Grimes
 * //Bartholomew and the Oobleck//** by Dr. Seuss.
 * //The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins//** by Dr. Seuss

__**Assessment:**__ 2nd Nine Weeks: Teacher Observation