Friday, Third Person Point of View

Objective: By the end of class, students will analyze third person narrative perspective and figurative language (OXYMORON) in order to improve reading comprehensive skills.

Do Now

Write three kinds of 3rd person narrative perspective into notebooks and leave room between each for the definitions:

1. 3rd Person Limited

2. 3rd Person Omniscient

3. 3rd Person Objective

Direct Instruction

PPT - POV

Oxymoron Definition - a figure of speech (figurative language) in which two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect. Examples - jumbo shrimp, icy hot, awfully nice, horribly good, etc

George carlin oxymorons

oxymoron matching game


Guided / Independent

The Story Teller by Saki is short fiction and a :
1. Frame story - a story within a story
2. Satire is a story that uses irony to make fun of someone or something in society in order to make a point or inspire change.
3. Written in third person omniscient
4. Uses figurative language - hyperboles and oxymorons

Read 102-104 - annotate and do sidebars and establish the beginning of the FRAME STORY.

Summarize the frame story ( be sure to include the setting and the aunt's story). Then provide three descriptive adjectives for each character (aunt, small girl, big girl, cyril and the bachelor).



Check for unerstanding

Individual and group student checks during independent work

Closure

Review

POV practice identifying type. - Finish for HW if not done in class.

Exit Pass

Why do you think figurative language such as oxymorons, similes, metaphors, etc is effective? Why do authors use it so much?