Point of View

With help, the student demonstrates partial success at 2.0 and 3.0.

I can:

Identify multiple accounts (more than one oral or written description) of an event.

Describe the difference between a narrator, speaker  author or characters in a text (for example, the narrator may or may not be a character in the text and the speaker of a poem is not necessarily the author).

Describe the difference between first-, second-, and third-person points of view.

Identify the reasons why an author writes a text.

Vocabulary: point of view, first person, third person, perspective, narrator, speaker, analyze, multiple accounts, author's purpose

I can:

Analyze multiple accounts of the same event or topic in informational texts.

Note important similarities and differences in the point of view of informational texts.

Describe how a narrator’s or speaker’s point of view influences how events are described in literature.

Describe the author’s purpose of a text in literature.

Explain how the author’s purpose is communicated throughout the text in literature.