POINT OF VIEW

POINT OF VIEW

Grammar Study: Verbals

• Verbals are related to verbs, which are action words that describe what you are doing.

• While they are related to verbs, they tell you more than just what is happening.

• There are three types of verbals:

  • Infinitives

  • Present participles

  • Past participles

• Infinitive: the most basic form of a verb that is not tied to a subject

  • Infinitives are just verbs that are combined with the word to

  • Examples: to stand, to read, to laugh

• Present participle: this is a verb that ends in -ing.

  • This tells you what someone is currently doing

  • Example: The dog is sleeping; Maria is reading a book; It is raining outside.

Grammar Study: Verbals

• Present participle: this is a verb that ends in -ing.

  • This tells you what someone is currently doing

  • Example: The dog is sleeping; Maria is reading a book; It is raining outside.

  • Past participles:  this is a verb that ends in -ed.

    • This tells you what has happened before or in the past.

    • Example: I walked home after school; the door has been closed; Serenity has played basketball before.

    • Some past participle endings are different from the original -ed ending.

      • Write becomes written

      • Sing will become sung

      • Buy becomes bought

• We will talk about this more tomorrow.

POINT OF VIEW

• An author’s purpose is the main reason he or she creates a piece of writing. This reason may be to inform, persuade, entertain, or reflect. An author may write with a particular audience in mind, hoping to affect people’s feelings on a subject. Analyzing the author’s tone, language,

  and content choices can help readers infer what the author’s purpose is. Those same clues can also reveal the author’s point of view—what the author thinks, feels, or believes.

• What is Point of View?

  • Point of View is the way an author crafts his or her story to allow the reader to see and hear what is happening

  • The points of view that are most commonly found in literature are:

  – First Person Point of View – Third Person Point of View

  • • (Second person is only used for guides or instructions using the pronoun YOU)

  First Person Point of View

  • You can identify first person point of view by looking for the following pronouns:

  –I – Me, My – We, Us

  The narrator is a character in the story.

  The reader only knows what the NARRATOR reveals about their thoughts, feelings, and actions.

  
  

Multiple Choice

Single-use bottled water is commonly derived from a municipal water source and goes through a purification process that uses charcoal filtration and reverse-osmosis.

• The author has a positive feeling about the topic.

• The

  author has a negative feeling about the topic.

• The author has a neutral feeling; he/she feels neither positive nor negative.

• Third Person Point of View

  • You can identify third person point of view by looking for the following pronouns:

  – He

  – She

  – They, Their, Them

  The narrator is NOT a character in

  the story.

  The reader only knows what the author

  wants to reveal.

  
  

  We can know the thoughts, feelings, and actions of ONE character or ALL 

  
  

Multiple Choice

As I grazed in the field, I realized that there were not any other animals around. I had a weird feeling that something was wrong. The other animals that are usually making noises are all silent. I see a shadow up in a tree. I think that is is unsafe here, so I am going to run away.

From what point of view is the passage written?

• FIRST

• SECOND

• THIRD

• ALL

Multiple Choice

She ran as fast as she could up the hill. Although she was hot and exhausted, she knew if she kept her pace, she would win the race.

• first person

• second person

• third person

• ALL

Multiple Choice

the narrator is the

• The person telling the story

• the simile

• the person who wrote the story

• flat character

Multiple Choice

the author is

• the speaker

• the person who wrote the story

• the person who told the story

• flat character

PERSPECTIVE

What is Perspective? • Perspective is the lens through which

• Think about it like this:

– If you were wearing a pair of glasses, which character’s glasses are you wearing? Through whose lenses do you see the world?

• When we understand a character’s perspective, we get to walk in the shoes of that character. 

KEEP IN MIND!!!!!

Always look for how things are described, find the main idea, along with adjectives and figurate language that creates either a positive or negative connotation to determine how the POV and Perspective of a topic..... let's get to work

Multiple Choice

Author's perspective refers to the unique combination of...

• deas, values and beliefs

• tone, diction, and voice

• tone, purpose, and syntax

• voice, style, and imagery

Multiple Choice

I love to watch birds! It always amazes me

how they can build those nests! I like to leave

scraps of hair and yarn out for them to find.

They'll use these things and weave them into a

nest. Being a parent is a hard job, and the birds

can use all the help they can get.

What is the author's perspective?

• Birds use lots of things to build their nest

• Birds are interesting animals

• Humans should never interfere with wild animals

• Humans should help birds build their nest

Multiple Choice

Landfills are overflowing with garbage created by people who are too lazy to recycle single use plastic water bottles. Those individuals should purchase refillable bottles or recycle the plastic bottles. It is easy to recycle and it is the responsible thing to do.

• The author has a positive feeling about the topic.

• The author has a negative feeling about the topic.

• The author has a neutral feeling; he/she feels neither positive nor negative.