Point of View Practice 10/21/2014

1. Point of View Practice 10/21/2014 Answer and explain each question Raise your hand to be checked

2. Second person giving instructions • Second person describing actions • Third person with the narrator providing all details • Third person with the narrator providing some details 1. The Abominable SnowmanBy R.A. Montgomery You are a mountain climber. Three years ago you spent the summer at a climbing school in the mountains of Colorado. Your instructors said that you had natural skills as a climber. You made rapid progress and by the end of the summer you were leading difficult rock and ice climbs.

3. Third person with narrator providing some details • Third person with narrator providing limited thoughts or feelings • Third person with narrator providing all thoughts or feelings • Third with narrator providing all details 2. Outside the BoxBy Dan Allosso Three shots like thunderclaps rang out from surround speakers in the basement rec room. A white controller jumped in Reid Anderson’s hand each time he squeezed the trigger. Tactile feedback. A speaker in the controller made snapping sounds like the action of a pistol. Reid felt this more than he heard it. The shots made his ears ring.

4. First person from the Jen’s point of view • First person from Kurt’s point of view • Third person with narrator providing some details • Third person with narrator providing all details 3. Teen IdolBy Meg Cabot I witnessed the kidnapping of Betty Ann Mulvaney. Well, me and the twenty-three other people in first period Latin class at Clayton High School (student population 1,200). Unlike everybody else, however, I actually did something to try and stop it. Well, sort of. I went, “Kurt, what are you doing?” Kurt just rolled his eyes. He was all, “Relax, Jen. It’s a joke, okay?”

5. Second person from Aunt Harriet’s point of view • Second person from Elizabeth Ann’s point of view • Third person with narrator providing some thoughts or feelings • Third person with narrator providing all thoughts or feelings 4. Understood BetsyBy Dorothy Canfield Aunt Harriet never meant to say any of this when Elizabeth Ann could hear, but the little girl’s ears were as sharp as little girls’ ears always are, and long before she was nine, she knew all about the opinion Aunt Harriet had of the Putneys. She did not know, to be sure, what “chores” were, but she took it confidently from Aunt Harriet’s voice that they were something very, very dreadful.

6. Third person from the boy’s point of view • Third person with the narrator providing all details • Third person with narrator providing some details • Second person from the man’s point of view 5. I Am Number FourBy Pittacus Lore The man brings his legs over the front of the cot when the shake starts again. A longer, firmer shake, and another crash, this time closer. The man gets to his feet and walks slowly to the door. Silence. The boy sits up. “No,” the man whispers, and in that instant the blade of a sword, long and gleaming, made of a shining white metal that is not found on Earth, comes through the door and sinks deeply into the man’s chest.

7. Third person with narrator providing all details • Third person with narrator proving all details • First person from a student’s point of view • First person from Mrs. Frizzle’s point of view 6. The Magic School Bus: Inside the Human BodyBy Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen It all began when Ms. Frizzle showed our class a film strip about the human body. We knew trouble was about to start, because we knew Ms. Frizzle was the strangest teacher in the school.

8. Third person with narrator providing all thoughts and feelings • Third person with narrator providing some thoughts and feelings • Third person from Dorothy’s point of view • Third person from Glinda’s point of view 7. Glinda of OzBy Frank L. Baum Ozma took the arm of her hostess, but Dorothy lagged behind. When at last she rejoined Glinda and Ozma in the hall, she found them talking earnestly about the condition of the people, and how to make them more happy and contented – although they were already the happiest and most contented folks in all the world. This interested Ozma, of course, but it didn’t interest Dorothy very much, so the little girl ran over to the big table on which was lying open Glinda’s Great Book of Records.

9. Third person providing instructions • Third person from a teen’s point of view • Second person from a teen’s point of view • Second person providing instructions 8. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective TeensBy Sean CoveyThe 7 Habits of Highly Defective Teens Habit 1: React - Blame all of your problems on your parents, your stupid teachers or professors, your lousy neighborhood, your boyfriend or girlfriend, or something or somebody else. Be a victim. Take no responsibility for your life. Act like an animal. If you’re hungry, eat. If someone yells at you, yell back. If you feel like you’re doing something you know is wrong, just do it.

10. First person providing some thoughts and feelings • First person providing all thoughts and feelings • Third person providing some thoughts and feelings • Third person providing all thoughts and feelings 9. Eragon (Inheritance)By Christopher Paolini Eragon knelt in a bed of trampled reed grass and scanned the tracks with a practiced eye. The prints told him that the deer had been in the meadow only a half hour before. Soon they would bed down. His target, a small doe with a pronounced limp in her left forefoot, was still in the herd. He was amazed she had made it so far without a wolf or a bear catching her.

11. Second person with the narrator describing details • Third person with the narrator providing all thoughts and feelings • Third person with the narrator providing some thoughts and feelings • Third person with the narrator describing details 10. The Grapes of WrathBy John Steinbeck The last rains lifted the corn quickly and scattered weed colonies and grass along the sides of the road. In the last part of May the sky grew pale and the clouds that had hung in high puffs for so long in the spring were dissipated. The sun flared down on the growing corn day after day until a line of brown spread along the edge of each green bayonet. The clouds appeared, and went away, and in a while they did not try anymore. The weeds grew darker green to protect themselves, and they did not spread anymore.