What about my point of view?

​Wala: Point of View.

​ Learning Objective:

Explore narrative voice, tell a story from another point of view and work with pronouns.

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​Success Criteria:

​Learners can talk about point of view and who is telling a story.

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Learners can use personal and possessive pronouns accurately.

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​Learners can retell a story from another point of view.

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​Pronouns help create flow.

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• Invite a learner to read out the sentences with Ant repeated a number of times.

• ​Example:

• Ant collected Ant's food to have for Ant's supper. Ant decided Ant had the right ingredients for Ant's favourite food.

  Example:

​Pronouns help create flow.

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  Invite another learner to read out the sentences again to make it flow better.

• ​Example:

• Ant collected Ant's food to have for Ant's supper. Ant decided Ant had the right ingredients for Ant's favourite food.

  Example:

​Pronouns help create flow.

• ​Is it necessary to keep Ant at the beginning of the second sentence?

  ​Example:

• Ant collected Ant's food to have for Ant's supper. Ant decided Ant had the right ingredients for Ant's favourite food.

  Example:

​Pronouns help create flow.

• What is a pronoun?​​

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​ Activity 1

​Point of View.

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• ​Explain point of views before activity is done.

• Learners book pg​ 22 and 23​​

• ​Group 1 - Do ( a )​

• ​Group 2 - Do ( b )​

• ​Group 3 - Do ( c )​

​Answers.

​a) Outside narrator - Third person narrative.

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​b) Narrative - (Narrative indicates who is telling the story because

it identifies who says what. The actual words spoken do not change according to who is telling the story, but he/she or I said change.

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c) Third/ he, First/ I, Third/ She, First/ We, Third/ They

​ Activity 2

​Possessive pronouns and adjectives

​​Eplain the difference before activity is done.

• Learners book pg​ 23​​ and 24

• ​Group 1 - Do ( a )​

• ​Group 2 - Do ( a )​

• ​Group 3 - Do ( b )​

​ Activity 3

​Discuss a change in perspective.

​Discuss a change in perspective

​​Explore view points in stories.

• Learners book pg​ 24​​ and 25

• ​Group 1 - Do ( a, b )​

• ​Group 2 - Do ( c )​

• ​Group 3 - Do ( d )​

• ​As learners take one or other point of view, they should notice that they have to change the pronouns and add in some comment from their characters to reflect their feelings and reaction.

Is that what you think?

​As grasshopper is shivering and starving, he falls into a pile of leaves and discovers a hidden stash of food. He gobbles some up and starts singing and dancing. Ant comes out of the anthill asking what is happening. When Grasshopper tells what happened, she is outraged by his luck believing that he did not deserve it.

Is that what you think? ​

Tell your partner the scenario​ from one or the other characters point of view.

Express your character’s feelings and what you think you would say when telling somebody else about what happened.

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​Homework.

​Workbook pg 15, 16 and 17

​Gr 1 - Number 2

​Gr 2 - Number 3

​Gr 3 - Number 4

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