Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Announcements and Reminders:           Today is the last day of Term 1.  Congratulations on your fine work in this class!

Targets for Today:  Reading: Literature Standard 10  By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6–8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.

Today’s  Agenda: 1. Individual Reading time  -- Select a question from your list of responses.  Answer it in your composition book -- 1/3 page or more. Hand in your unused hall passes if you haven't already done that. 2. Pair share:   Use your ____12___ o'clock appointment.  Reading Gregor the Overlander -- Begin on page 39.  Today we read to page 58, chapter 6. Characters: Gregor -- How old is he? page 3 Boots  -- How old is she?  page 4 Gregor's mom Gregor's grandma Gregor's dad Lizzie Mrs. Cormaci Luxa (Louk-za) Vikus What is the point of view?   Within third person point of view, there are limited omniscient and omniscient narrators., and sometimes objective view.  "One of the most common forms of third-person is third-person limited. In third-person limited, the narrator is still telling us about what's happening, but we are given the opportunity to see one character's innermost thoughts and feelings. In other words, the narrator's ability to tell us about thoughts and feelings is limited to one character. "Another common (although somewhat trickier) form of third-person is third-person omniscient, in which the narrator is able to tell us the thoughts and feelings of every character that appears. The term omniscient means 'all-knowing,' so one way to remember this form of third-person is to think of the narrator as having psychic powers." from http://study.com/academy/lesson/third-person-point-of-view-definition-examples-quiz.html Another type of third person narrative is "camera view," also known as "objective view" which "allows the narrator to record the action from his or her own point of view, being unaware of any of the characters' thoughts or feelings." -- Write Source 2000, page 344 Examples from Third Person Omniscient Point of View  “Hansel walked ahead of Gretel; after all, he knew he belonged in the front because Gretel was just a girl. Gretel dropped breadcrumbs behind her as she went, knowing that her bumbling brother couldn’t be counted on to find his way home from the outhouse, let alone from the middle of the woods. Ahead of them, an old witch waited, her stomach rumbling at the thought of what a delicious dinner the two plump children would make.”    https://letthewordsflow.wordpress.com/2010/12/20/point-of-view-first-person-third-person-or-objective/ Third Person Limited:  Here’s our Hansel and Gretel example, but from third person limited, with Gretel as the point of view character: “Hansel walked ahead of Gretel.  Gretel dropped breadcrumbs behind her as she went, knowing that her bumbling brother couldn’t be counted on to find his way home from the outhouse, let alone from the middle of the woods.” Notice that the mention of the witch is gone, since Gretel has no knowledge of her at this point.  https://letthewordsflow.wordpress.com/2010/12/20/point-of-view-first-person-third-person-or-objective/ Objective Point of View:  Objective point of view contains no references to thoughts or feelings; it only reports what can be seen and heard.  One way to imagine this POV would be to think of the narrator as a roving movie camera. Here’s our Hansel and Gretel example, but from the objective POV: “Hansel walked ahead of Gretel. Gretel dropped breadcrumbs behind her as she went. Ahead of them, an old witch waited.” Notice that none of the passage is italicized, because all of it is action, and no thoughts or feelings are included at all. https://letthewordsflow.wordpress.com/2010/12/20/point-of-view-first-person-third-person-or-objective/ ________________________ Lego Gregor the Overlander:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyrLEfe1Fkg A recommended book:  Star of Deltora: Shadows of the Master https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fW0zexE2-E Next time:  Figure out which type of third person point of view Gregor the Overlander is.

If You Were Absent: See above.

Vocabulary: See the section above for Point of View.