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Do Now: These are your ONLY options!!!

​Weekly Review: MUST DO
-Enjoying a Gift (this week)
-The Oregon Trail (past due)
-The Farmer's Market (past due)

Extra Credit: Can do
-readworks.org/student (23hra4)
-Homework
-Grammar Goblin

​SHOW YOUR WORK!!!!!

HISD 4th Grade

Read Write

November 1, 2023

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TEKS: 4.10E identify and understand the use of literary devices, including first- or third-person point of view

LO: Students will be able to (SWBAT) identify
and understand the use of literary devices,
including first- or third-person point of view.

DOL: Given a poem, SW identify and
understand the use of literary devices,
including first- or third-person point of view
correctly in at least 4 of 5 questions.

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Point of View
Who is telling the story?

first-person

third-person

speakers or narrators are
part of the story or event.

often includes: I, me, my, we, or us

speakers or narrators are

not part of the story or

event.

often includes: he, she, it, they

Match

Match the following

• speakers or narrators are
  part of the story or event.

• speakers or narrators are not part of the story or event.

• third person clue words

• first person clue words

first person

third person

he, she, they, them

I, me, us, we, my

• first person

• third person

• he, she, they, them

• I, me, us, we, my

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Point of View
Who is telling the story?

first-person

third-person

Write a third-person sentence about one of your partner’s dreams.

Write a first- person
sentence about
something you dream of doing or becoming.

​Fold a notecard in half

Categorize

Options (4)

I dreamed about riding a racehorse.

My little brother dreamed of being president after he went to Washington, D.C

Austin had a dream about being a Major League baseball player.

Emily dreamed of going on a trip to India with her uncle.

Organize these options into the right categories

First person POV

Third person POV

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My First Memory (Of Librarians)
by Nikki Giovanni

​Hmmm...this poem looks different...almost like a story. Also, I wonder what point of view this is in?

Dropdown

The poem, My First Memory by Nikki Giovanni, is written in​

Select answer

point of view.

Multiple Choice

Which line helps the reader understand that the poet uses first-person point of view in the poem?

• A line of green shades–bankers’ lights– down the center (line 4)

• Magazines face out from the wall (line 13)

• The anticipation in my heart (line 15)

• All those books–another world–just waiting (line 16)

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Using first-person point of

view, discuss your first
experience in a library.

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How does the point of view in the poem contribute to the reader's understanding of
the speaker's optimism? Use evidence from the text to support your answer.

The point of view in the poem contributes to the

reader’s understanding of the speaker’s optimism
because

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Given a poem, SW
identify and understand
the use of literary
devices, including first-
or third-person point of
view correctly in at least
5 of 7 points.

​When you finish:
1. close your laptop
2. put any loose paper in your binder or backpack
3. plug your device up
4. gather your DOL and graded free response
5. continue working quietly on your weekly review, grammar goblin, homework, journal work, or read the book of the month until the timer goes off.

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