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Date:_______________
College: ______________________________
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Sparker!
1. Pretend you are a little kid about to eat a cupcake at your 5th birthday party. Explain how you
are feeling right now! Be creative!
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2. Pretend you are a cupcake about to be eaten at a little kids birthday party. Explain how you
are feeling right now! Be creative!
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New InformationClass Notes: What
is Point of View?
It is the ____________________________ through which readers will experience the story. From the
beginning of the writing process, an author makes story-telling ______________________________.
She chooses characters, plot, setting, theme--and how best to __________________________ them.
The writer also chooses _______________________ will tell her story. That "who" defines the POV.
Pronouns used______________________________________________________________
Readers _________________________
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situations?
narrator,__________________________
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the characters__________________________
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Example of 1st person point of view from The Catcher in the Rye
Directions: As you read the following example, circle the first person pronouns.
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and
what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me,
and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the
truth.
1. How does this affect you as a reader? Do you feel more or less part of the story? Explain.
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2. Re-write this passage in 1st person point of view.
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First or Second?!
Directions: Re-write the following passages in a new point of view. Then, determine how the story is
different when told from a different point of view.
Clean took his hands out of his pockets and started circling Monkeyman, but Monkeyman
didnt move. Clean hit him in the back of his head and he didnt say nothing.
Please dont do that, boy, Monkeymans grandfather said. He made us promise not to help
him, but please dont do that.
1st Person Point of View Re-Write
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Explain how the story is different in 1st person:
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He knew his pursuer was coming; he heard the padding sound of feet on the soft earth,
and the night breeze brought him the perfume of the general's cigarette. Rainsford,
crouching there, could not see the general, nor could he see the pit. He lived a year in a
minute. Then he felt an impulse to cry aloud with joy, for he heard the sharp crackle of the
breaking branches as the cover of the pit gave way; he heard the sharp scream of pain as
the pointed stakes found their mark.
Name: _____________________________________
1. What is a pronoun?
5. What is one positive about 1st person? What is one negative about 1st person?
Name: _____________________________________
1. What is a pronoun?
5. What is one positive about 1st person? What is one negative about 1st person?