How does the storyteller shape the story?

1. How does the storyteller shape the story?

2. In this lesson you will analyze point of view by by recording and reflecting on the narrator’s experiences and how they change the story.

3. Let’s dive into “Saved by a Seal”

4. What an exciting story, I’m going to keep reading!

5. How someone sees something, their side of the story. Point of View: The perspective from which the story is told. The narrator is the person telling

6. Narrator is outside the story (key words: he, she, they). Two types: First Person and Third Person Narrator is inside the story (key words : I, my, we).

7. What point of view? The liveliest seal that father and I ever caught was also the only one that ever got away. We named him Nab. Although father had been catching seals for zoos and circuses almost as long as I can remember, Nab was too sharp for him. It was my failed attempt to recapture him that ended the most exciting experience I ever had with a seal. First Person Point of View

8. How does this shape the story? The narrator says that this was the most exciting experience he ever had with a seal. This tells me, that the author chose his point of view to give the story the most excitement possible.

9. Why did the author make this choice? The author chose the son’s perspective to give the story a tone of excitement. If he had chosen the dad’s perspective, it would have been frustration and less exciting.

10. 1 • Identify the point of view. 2 • Ask: How does this shape the story? 3 Ask: Why did the author make this choice?

11. In this lessonyou have analyzed point of view by recording and reflecting on how the narrator’s experiences changed the story.

12. What point of view? A guard came to the prison shop, where Jimmy Valentine was stitching shoes, and escorted him to the front office. There, the warden handed Jimmy his pardon, which had been signed that morning. Jimmy took it in a tired sort of way. He had served nearly ten months of a four-year sentence. He had expected to stay only three months, at the longest. Men with Jimmy Valentine’s connections usually got out of prison in a matter of weeks.

13. How does it change the story? A guard came to the prison shop, where Jimmy Valentine was stitching shoes, and escorted him to the front office. There, the warden handed Jimmy his pardon, which had been signed that morning. Jimmy took it in a tired sort of way. He had served nearly ten months of a four-year sentence. He had expected to stay only three months, at the longest. Men with Jimmy Valentine’s connections usually got out of prison in a matter of weeks. If the story was from the warden’s perspective…

14. Why did the author choose this? A guard came to the prison shop, where Jimmy Valentine was stitching shoes, and escorted him to the front office. There, the warden handed Jimmy his pardon, which had been signed that morning. Jimmy too it in a tired sort of way. He had served nearly ten months of a four-year term. He had expected to stay only three months at the longest. Men with Jimmy Valentine’s connections usually got out of prison in a matter of weeks.

15. 1 • Identify the Point of View 2 • Ask: How does it change the story? 3 Ask: Why did the author make this choice?

16. Group Extension: Working with your group read the text. Then, apply the three steps to identify the point of view, how it shapes the story, and why the author made this choice.

17. Individual Extension: Working with your independent reading book, work through the three steps to determine: • What point of view the story is told from. • How it changes the story. • Why the author made this choice.

18. Review the passage from “A Droll Fox-Trap.” Using the three steps identify the point of view, how it shapes the story, and why the author chose this perspective. When I was a boy I lived in one of those rustic neighborhoods on the outskirts of the great “Maine woods.” Foxes were plenty, for about all those sunny pioneer clearings birch-partridges breed by thousands, as also field-mice and squirrels, making plenty of game for Reynard. Point of View: How it changes the story: Why the author made this choice: