Point of View/ Purpose review

Point of View/ Purpose review

by Amanda Miller

​Review

​We've taken notes on 3 topics related to the author or character's thoughts in a passage. What are those 3 topics?

1. ​Point of View

2. ​Purpose

3. ​Perspective

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Let's test our knowledge of these topics!

Multiple Choice

The narrator's position in a story (who is telling the story)

• Point of view

• Purpose

• Perspective

Correct answer: ​Point of view

​Point of view has to do with who is telling the story. It can be in first, second, or third person point of view.

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​Get ready for a challenge!

Open Ended

Write a sentence in first person point of view. 

Open Ended

Write a sentence in second person point of view.

Open Ended

Write a sentence in third person point of view.

Multiple Choice

The author's reason for writing a text.

• Point of view

• purpose

• perspective

​Correct answer: Purpose

• ​There are 3 main reasons an author writes a text.​Persuade

• ​Inform

• ​Entertain

Open Ended

What type of texts are meant to persuade? (example: advertisements)

Open Ended

What type of texts are meant to inform? (example: news article)

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What type of text is meant to entertain? (example: comic books)

Multiple Choice

What's the author's purpose?

A story about a family trying to stick together and survive through the Great Depression in the Midwest in the 1930s.

• Persuade

• Inform

• Entertain

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Multiple Choice

What's the author's purpose?

A poem about why the IPOD is the greatest consumer electronic device ever made.

• Persuade

• Inform

• Entertain

Multiple Choice

What's the author's purpose?

A section in a history book describing the conditions and causes of the Great Depression in the Midwest in the 1930s.

• Persuade

• Inform

• Entertain

Multiple Choice

What's the author's purpose?

A speech written by Jose Canseco listing the negative effects of steroids and urging young athletes to not use steroids.

• Persuade

• Inform

• Entertain

Multiple Choice

The author or character's thoughts, feelings, and opinions.

• Point of View

• Purpose

• Perspective

​Correct Answer: Perspective

​Perspective is the author or character's opinion. We find the author's perspective by paying careful attention to the things they say. Often, the writer is trying to convince us of something.

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​On the next slide, you will read a passage and determine the author's perspective.

Open Ended

Mobile phones can be fantastic when it comes to the safety of your children and so many parents encourage their use but are they really needed when the kids are at school? Although you would hope this wouldn't happen, it is possible that your child's mobile phone could be stolen while they are at school. This would be very costly to parents and a huge disappointment to the child. Placing their phone in a school locker during lessons could reduce this possibility, but many children like to carry their phone around just in case they need it. The latest smartphones can almost double as a computer. While this is great for those techno geeks among us, it does mean they offer far more of a distraction to kids than they used to. Nowadays, children cannot only text and make calls with their mobiles, they can also play games, surf the internet and listen to music. All these features could interfere with your child’s concentration and ability to learn if they play with them in class. Many children, even though they are asked to do so, forget to turn off their phones during lessons, and suddenly they may start to beep, chime or play music. This not only frustrates and annoys other pupils but also prevents them from learning as well as they would without the distraction. If this happens with several phones during a class, the problem multiplies. What is the author's perspective?

Open Ended

How did you know?

Open Ended

Mobile phones seem to be everywhere now and the devices, which were once a luxury for indulgent grown-ups, are now in the hands of many kids and teenagers. While others say that allowing a child to have a cell phone is a bad idea, I disagree. The main benefit of having a phone is that your child can get in touch with you whenever they need to. This allows you to feel they are safe and gives them assurance knowing they can call home if they have a problem. Perhaps your child is in immediate danger even, they can use their phone to call not only you but emergency services as well. This is of great benefit and could potentially save your child's life. Even if your child has no phone credit they can still get in touch with the police, fire or medical services since all emergency calls are free. Children, especially teenagers, can be extraordinarily elusive and can disappear with their friends for hours without notifying anyone. During the summer, many kids will go to the park or hop on over with some friend to eat lunch somewhere. Letting them have a mobile phone will allow you to know where they are – provided their phone is on! Mobile phones can be very discreet if turned off or on to silent. As long as your child remembers to do this their phone won't cause a distraction in class, but they will still have a way to contact you if they need to. Giving them a standard rather than a smartphone will also reduce the risk of distraction. What is the author's perspective?

Open Ended

How did you know?

Open Ended

Sure iPads make locating information easier. Sure iPads are extremely portable. Sure iPads are interactive. But do they belong in the classroom, replacing textbooks? Let’s face it, iPads aren’t cheap. Buying an iPad to be issued to every student and teacher would get expensive. Then there’s always the worry that a careless student would accidentally break one, or that the unavoidable accident would happen leaving the iPad broken and useless, needing repairs or replacement. Having an iPad at your fingertips all day has the potential to be extremely distracting. Teachers would have to monitor constantly to ensure that students used the iPad solely for school purposes, and even then there are ways around that. Relying on a device that has to be connected to the internet to get the full functionality out of it is risky, to put it mildly. One network outage can throw off an entire day’s lessons, which is exactly why textbooks are just as important as ever. What is the author's perspective?

Open Ended

How did you know?

Poll

All of these topics will be on our test Monday. Which one is the hardest in your opinion?

• Point of view

• Purpose

• Perspective

Poll

Which topic are you most confident about?

• Point of view

• Purpose

• Perspective