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Freshman English

Freshman English. Mr. Briggs’ Class Room B3 Tuesday October 21-22, 2009. Taking Attendance. Please sit quietly while roll is taken. Today’s Objective and Learning Standard. Develop a full understanding of the narrator’s voice when reading a short story.

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Freshman English

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  1. Freshman English Mr. Briggs’ Class Room B3 Tuesday October 21-22, 2009

  2. Taking Attendance Please sit quietly while roll is taken

  3. Today’s Objective and Learning Standard • Develop a full understanding of the narrator’s voice when reading a short story. • Identify the omniscient style of narration in the short story The Interlopers. • Standard: Literary Response and Analysis 3.9: Explain how persona, voice and choice of narration affect characterization and the plot of a story.

  4. Homework – put in PSA’s Read “The Necklace” pages 160-168 in the textbook. Answer questions 2-6 on page 170. Assignment name: The Necklace

  5. Collect Hero Essays • Please place your essays in the basket.

  6. Take Notes on Narration • Get a textbook • Go to page 148 • Write down notes as explained on this PowerPoint • Title The Narrator

  7. Narration (go to page 148 in textbooks) • Who is telling the story? • The narrator controls everything we know about characters and events. • Three main narrators in stories: • Omniscient • First-person • Third-person limited

  8. Omniscient Narrator • All-knowing storyteller • God POV • This narrator is never a part of the story • Knows everything about every character – how each thinks and feels

  9. First-Person Narrator • First-person point of view (POV) • Uses “I” in the story telling • Talks to the reader as if they’re actually sitting together • Very personal POV

  10. Third-Person Limited • The focus is on just one character, but talks about the character in the third-person, using he or she • The reader shares one character’s reaction to everything that happens in the story • Knowledge of the other characters is limited

  11. The Interlopers • What’s an interloper? - intruder: someone who intrudes on the privacy or property of another without permission • Page 151 in textbooks • Notice the omniscient narrator • Surprise ending – when the conflict in a story is totally unexpected but still logical

  12. “The Interlopers” Questions • Video 1 • Video 2 • Answer questions 1-5 on page 157 of your textbook • Complete page 89 in your IR.

  13. Tone • The attitude the author takes towards the subject, character, or audience. • If you change a story’s POV, you may also change its tone. • What if the young woman tells the story of the saxophonist instead of the man in PJ’s?

  14. Prewriting • Respond to the following writing prompt in your notes. • Is it always best to get the things you want, or is it better to wait and maybe not have them at all?

  15. The Necklace • Told in Third-Person Limited • Protagonist is Mathilde • Setting: Paris in the 1800’s • Page 161 in your textbooks • Video

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