POV and Perspective - Day 1

I can analyze how an author develops and contrasts points of view to impact content, meaning, and style.

Point of View and Perspective Day 1

Your Perspective

What do you see?

Perspective is how the characters view and process what’s happening within the story. 

• How does the narrator perceive what’s happening within the story?

• What is their attitude about it?

Point of view focuses on...

*Who is telling the story?

*Who is speaking?

Let's look at a familiar story

from a familiar perspective

Open Ended

Summarize the story of the Three Little Pigs in 3 - 4 sentences.

Let's check out a different perspective:

The wolf's!

We don’t always see the

same things the same

way. (Perspective)

And how we retell those
things may be different
as well. (Point of view)

Fill in the Blanks

Why did the wolf say he was going to the pigs' houses?

Multiple Choice

Perspective in literature is ___, while point of view in literature is ___.

• who tells the story or who is speaking, how a character views and processes what happens in a story.

• They are the same thing.

• how a character views and processes what happens in a story, who tells the story or who is speaking.

Multiple Choice

A first person narrator would use which pronouns?

• They, them, theirs

• I, me, my, we, mine, us, ours

• He, him, his

• She, her, hers

Poll

Think about the books you have most enjoyed reading. What is the most common point of view of those books?

• First person

• Third person omniscient

• Third person limited

• Second person