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Mastering Point-of-View in Storytelling

Learn about different narrative perspectives and their impact on storytelling. Explore plot structures, character descriptions, and more in this engaging workshop. Enhance your writing skills!

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Mastering Point-of-View in Storytelling

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  1. Communication Arts 9thGrade December 7, 2011

  2. Bellringer • Name at least one type of plot structure. (hint: there are 3 possible answers)

  3. Reading Workshop • 20 minutes • If you haven’t finished your November Reading Reflection on Google Docs, you may work on it during this time, as well

  4. Reading Log • Date, Title, Pages Read • Give specific examples of both 1 Direct or 1 Indirect character descriptions for at least one character in your book. Cite what page the descriptions were on.

  5. Mini Lesson • Point-of-view • Who is telling the story and how much they contribute • 1st person • 2nd person • 3rd person • Omniscient • Limited omniscient • objective

  6. Mini Lesson • 1st person • I, me, my, we, our • Story is told from a main character’s POV • Benefits-readers see events from the perspective of an important character. Readers often understand the main character better. • Drawback-readers only see one characters POV

  7. Mini Lesson • 2nd person • You, your, yours, yourself • Very rare • Uses “you

  8. Mini Lesson • 3rd person • Omniscient-All knowing…the narrator can see into the minds of all characters • Godlike narrator; he/she can enter narrator’s minds and know everything that is going on; past, present, and future. • May be a narrator outside the text.

  9. Mini Lesson • 3rd person • Limited omniscient-narrator can see into ONE character’s mind. • All characters have “thought privacy” except one. • Gives the impression that we are very close to the mind of that one character, though viewing it from a distance. • Sometimes this narrator can be too focused and may impose his/her own opinion with no grounds.

  10. Mini Lesson • 3rd person • Objective-narrator can only describe and does not enter characters’ thoughts. • Like a video camera, the narrator reports what happens and what the characters are saying. • The narrator adds no comment about how the characters are feeling.

  11. Eyes Past Print • The Three Little Pigs • The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Mr. Alexander T. Wolfe

  12. Writing WOrkshop • Answer the following questions on a blank piece of paper: • 1. How would the story have been different if the1st little pig told the story? • 2. How would the story have been different if the 2nd little pig told the story? • 3. How would the story have been different if the 3rd little pig told the story? • 4. How would each of the brothers have felt about the wolf? • 5. How dideach of the pigsfeel about his brothers? • 6. How dideach of the pigsfeel about his house being broken down? • 7. Name another classic story that would be different if told from a new point-of-view. Tell me how it would be different.

  13. Ticket out • Today is National Cotton Candy Day. Cotton Candy is made of spun sugar. What’s the best foods that are made with lots of sugar? Explain.

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