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Narrative Choices. Aim: K now how writers can choose a particular viewpoint and voice for effect Understand how to sequence text for effect. Lesson 1. Task 1 :. Imagine you are taking this photograph. Where are you? What can you see from this vantage point?
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Narrative Choices Aim: Know how writers can choose a particular viewpoint and voice for effect Understand how to sequence text for effect
Task 1: • Imagine you are taking this photograph. Where are you? What can you see from this vantage point? Compose three sentences- using THIRD PERSON 2. Imagine you are in the picture, about to take a photograph. Describe what you can see from your vantage point. Compose three sentences- using FIRST PERSON
Examples: Standing in the distance, watching them dance and yell, he was surprisingly calm. The shadows were wrapped around him, hiding him from their gaze, they didn’t even notice his presence. The warm orange light from the fire spilled onto his face... I watched the group dance and yell around the fire. My senses alert to their movement—I felt alone and afraid: how would I survive? What are the differences between the two different viewpoints? Do their ‘voices’ sound the same or different? Which viewpoint is most effective for telling this story?
Narrative Viewpoint and Voice • When we read, we “see” images in our mind and “hear” a voice in our heads. • Writers can choose whose “eyes” we see through and whose “voice” we hear telling the story.
So, writers can choose…. • First person narrative or third person narrative • Past tense or present tense • Writers can tell a story In the order in which events happen, through flashback to events that happened earlier, from one viewpoint or more than one
Read the extracts (Private Peaceful and The Other Side of Truth) Resource 1
Assessment 1: • Re-write a section from either extract. Change: • First person into third person (or vice versa) • Write from another viewpoint – Charlie perhaps or Mr Munnings How has it changed the tone of the writing?
Multiple Narratives Learning Objective: • Learn how using different narrative viewpoints can have different effects Starter: What does the term DUAL NARRITIVE mean? Discuss in pairs.
Dual narrative: More than one person is telling the story. The different narrators might see the same event in different ways
Collaboration: - Get into groups of three • Each take a role • First form a freeze frame that conveys what is happening in the image • Then, one at a time, come out of your freeze frame and tell the audience your point of view • You are the person in the picture. Tell us the story of how you came to be here. • You are the dog. Tell us about your life with your owner.
Task 2: • Sort the cut up extract into the order you think is correct… Resource 2
NOW… Read the Jaws extract: - Was it similar or different to your version? - Discuss in pairs HOW tension is built up through the narrative structure (voice, dual narrative etc) Resource 3
Assessment 2: Choose another viewpoint e.g. the boy’s mother or father sunbathing on the beach or a Life guard witnessing the event. Write a short paragraph that can be fitted into the story to include their viewpoint. Use the third person e.g. The boy’s mother…..she…. The lifeguard….he…. Write in the past tense e.g. She glanced out to sea. Was that really him, so far from the shore? Decide where in the story your viewpoint would go? Could you include a flashback?
