Reading Lab #12: Analyzing the Author’s Point of View
Class Syllabus – Grades 6-8
Tuesday, March 21, 2023
Objective: Students will be able to identify the author’s point of view in a text, as well as the pitfalls and advantages of writing from different perspectives.
Essential Questions:
- What is a “point of view”?
- What does it mean to write in the 1st person?
- What does it mean to write in the 3rd person?
- Why is it important to note from which point of view a text is being told?
Enduring Understandings:
- “Point of view” is how someone views something.
- First-person stories are told from the point of view of the narrator. The reader experiences the story through the eyes, ears, thoughts, and feelings of the narrator.
- The story is told from the perspective of one character, just like in stories using first-person point of view. However, stories told in this point of view are more objective than stories told in first person because the narrator is outside the story looking in at events.
- In the first-person point of view, the narrator is only including details that he or she experienced firsthand. In the third-person point of view, the reader can observe things that are happening around the main character that the character may not notice.
Standards:
Grade 6: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.10 By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6-8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
Grade 7: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.7.10 By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6-8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. Grade 8: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.8.10 By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, at the high end of grades 6-8 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
Materials:
- Pen or pencil
- The excerpt from The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by A. Wolf by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith (1989)
- The article “Teens Using Social Media for Good Deeds”