The World According to Humphrey

Point of view

First-person, second person or third person?

Poll

Have you understood anything about the point of view?

• Yes

• No

First Person

"I lay down on the grass, which was very short and soft, where I slept sounder than ever I remember to have done in my life. I might have slept for about nine hours. When I awoke, it was just daylight. I attempted to rise, but was not able to stand: for as I happened to lie on my back, I found my arms and legs were strongly tied on each side to the ground; and my hair, which was long and thick, tied down in the same manner."

Second person

• You can wait in here and make yourself at home.

  
  

• You should be proud of yourselves for finishing this enormous project!

• You are not the kind of guy who would be at a place like this at this time of the morning. But here you are, and you cannot say that the terrain is entirely unfamiliar, although the details are fuzzy.

Third person

Tiffany used her prize money from the science fair to buy herself a new microscope.

The concert-goers roared their approval when they realized they’d be getting an encore.

Multiple Select

I made a new potion today and when we drank it, it turned us into animals.

• First person

• Second person

• Third person

Multiple Select

To make lemonade, you add the juice of lemons to water and sugar.

• First person

• second person

• third person

Multiple Select

She likes to go to the gym.

• first person

• second person

• third person

Open Ended

What is the point of view in the lesson 'The World According to Humphrey' and 'Sacagawea'?

Open Ended

Write one sentence in the first person, in the second person, in the third person.