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Chapter 5 Biographies, Autobiographies & Main Ideas. Page 242 – First and Third Person Narration. First Person Pronouns Autobiography Nonfiction First Person Point of View Biography Third Person Point of View. First Person.
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Page 242 – First and Third Person Narration • First Person • Pronouns • Autobiography • Nonfiction • First Person Point of View • Biography • Third Person Point of View
First Person When was eight years old, aunt gave a puppy. had been begging for a dog since was three. named him ‘Scruffy’ and loved how he played tug-of-war with clothes.
Third Person When was eight years old, aunt gave a puppy. had been begging for a dog since was three. named him ‘Scruffy’ and loved how he played tug-of-war with clothes.
Page 244, First Person Point of View • First Person Point of View • Narrator (or ‘storyteller’) • Used first person pronouns • I, me, we, us, mine, ours • Main Ideas • The most important idea in a nonfiction piece.
Stormby Gary Paulsen “It is always possible to learn from dogs, and in fact the longer I’m with them, the more I understand how little I know. But there is one dog who taught me the most. Just one dog. Storm. First dog…” What important idea does Paulsen express in this paragraph?
Finding the Main Idea : What lesson does Paulsen learn from Storm’s tricks? Stormby Gary Paulsen “He had taken the hat, quickly dug a hole, buried the hat and smoothed the snow over it, then gone back to sitting, staring ahead, looking completely innocent. When I stopped the sled and picked up the hat, he looked back, saw me put the had on my head, and I swear – smiled. Then he shook his head once and went back to work pulling.”
Page 254 – Connecting and Clarifying Main Ideas • Main Idea • The most important thing a writer has to say about the subject. • The Main Idea answers the question “What about it?”
Page 261 – Vocabulary Development • You can often figure out the meaning of a new word by looking at its context – the words or sentences surrounding it.
Page 262 - Autobiographies • Autobiography • The true story of a person’s life written from the first person point of view. • Pronouns – I, we, me, us, mine, ours • Main Idea • Some writers state the main idea of a piece of writing directly. Others leave it up to you to figure out. This means that you have to use details in the text to infer, or guess.
Page 274 – from The Land I Lost • An autobiography • Using first person narration • Switches to using the third person
Page 286 – A Glory Over Everything • Biography • Told in the third person point of view. • Uses pronouns – he, she, they, it
Page 297 – Question #6 • Read and do question #6
