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Exploring Narrative Perspectives: First and Third Person in Biographies and Autobiographies

This chapter delves into the distinctions between first and third person narration, particularly in the context of autobiographies and biographies. It highlights the use of first person pronouns ("I," "me," "we") to convey personal experiences and the importance of main ideas in nonfiction writing. Examples from Gary Paulsen's "Storm" illustrate how personal anecdotes and reflections can reveal deeper lessons about life. Through engaging with the texts, readers will learn how to identify main ideas and understand narrative perspectives, enhancing their reading comprehension skills.

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Exploring Narrative Perspectives: First and Third Person in Biographies and Autobiographies

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  1. Chapter 5Biographies, Autobiographies & Main Ideas

  2. Page 242 – First and Third Person Narration • First Person • Pronouns • Autobiography • Nonfiction • First Person Point of View • Biography • Third Person Point of View

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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?

  7. 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.”

  8. 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?”

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

  11. Page 274 – from The Land I Lost • An autobiography • Using first person narration • Switches to using the third person

  12. Page 286 – A Glory Over Everything • Biography • Told in the third person point of view. • Uses pronouns – he, she, they, it

  13. Page 297 – Question #6 • Read and do question #6

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