Different Types of Point of View

The Types Point of View

by Aadrien Glover

​Give Me 5!

• ​You may need a pencil and paper to take notes.

• ​Attention Signal: When I say "Give me five," you all will raise one of your hands so that I know I have your attention.

​What do YOU see?

• Directions: First, take a moment to look at the image. What is the first thing you notice about the image?

• ​When you each shared one thing you noticed about the image, you shared your perspective or point of view.

• ​In literature point of view refers to who is telling or narrating a story. It is the story being told through your eyes.

​Today We Will...

• Objective: The student will be able to determine the narrator's point of view, by recognizing key pronouns, in different passages 3 out of 4 times, without assistance from the teacher or notes.

• Learning Target: I can determine the point of view of a narrator in a story?

• Essential Question: How can point of view change the story?

​On the next 4 slides, you will complete a short quiz on point of view.

Multiple Choice

What is the POV of the passage? Greg looked up at the bright lights in the operating room until they burned a white spot in his field of vision. He looked at the face of the surgeon and saw only a white blur. When he looked away, he could see the surgeon's masked face from his peripheries. "I hope he's not going to use those on me," Greg thought to himself with terror. The surgeon picked up one that looked like a bent-up question mark.

• First-Person POV

• Second-person POV

• Third-person Limited

• Third-person Omniscient

Multiple Choice

What is the POV of the passage? Do you love robots? Do you love saving money? If so, you're going to love Bob's Robot Emporium. Getting to Bob's is easy. If you are coming from the west, just head east on route 272 until you get to route 47. Head south on route 47 until you see the sign for Bob's Robot Emporium. You can't miss it.

• First-Person POV

• Second-person POV

• Third-person Limited

• Third-person Omniscient

Multiple Choice

What is the POV of the passage? It is funny that my trip ended by being such a fast trip around the world. I find myself referred to now as one of the speediest travelers of all time. Speed wasn’t at all what I had in mind when I started. On the contrary, if all had gone the way I had hoped, I would still be happily floating around in my balloon, drifting anywhere the wind cared to carry me - East, West, North, or South.

• First-Person POV

• Second-person POV

• Third-person Limited

• Third-person Omniscient

Multiple Choice

What is the POV of the passage? The Scarecrow found a tree full of nuts and filled Dorothy's basket with them so that she would not be hungry for a long time. She thought this was very kind and thoughtful of the Scarecrow, but she laughed heartily at the awkward way the poor creature picked up the nuts. His padded hands were so clumsy that he dropped almost as many as he put in the basket. But the Scarecrow did not mind how long it took him to fill the basket, for it enabled him to keep away from the fire, as he feared a spark might get into his straw and burn him up (49).

• First-Person POV

• Second-person POV

• Third-person Limited

• Third-person Omniscient

​Let's Review

• ​Today we discussed the different points of view.

• ​What are the points of view that we discussed?

• ​How can point of view change a story?

Open Ended

Aha! & Huh? Moment

Directions: Write down 1 “aha” or something you learned from today's lesson and 1 “huh" or something you still have questions about below.