7th Grade Q3 Week 7B

• The narrator is an objective observer who does not take part in the story until the very end when revealing that the baseball card had just been sold

• More than one narrator is used throughout the passage giving the reader insight into the motivation for letting go of a rare memento

• The author uses first-person narration, fondly recalling a special day from the past and how a keepsake changed his life

• Because the passage is about time travel, readers will expect to read about scientific innovations

• Coming from the past, the narrator's unfamiliarity with current technology adds a comical touch to the passage

• Readers discover, through the narrator's descriptions, that the passage may be inaccurate due to his misunderstanding of what he sees

• The author describes people playing with their dogs in a park but uses awkward language that shows the narrator, an alien, does not recognize this as normal behavior

• The author shows the narrator emerging from a space pod indicating that his character is not from Earth, but another planet

• The author directly states that the narrator is confused about the environment he finds himself in, so you know how he feels

• The readers know that the first-person character recalls advice given to him by his father

• The point of view demonstrates the author holds a different view of the dance that the character does

• The author doesn't describe the character directly but has him look in a mirror to describe his own appearance

• It gives the reader understanding of different perspectives by revealing the thoughts of all the characters including Eva and the other job candidates

• It allows readers to know some of Eva's thoughts but mostly shows how she feels through her actions, leaving readers to draw their own conclusions

• It limit readers' understanding to the thoughts of the first-person narrator, whose grasp of the situation could be incorrect