Analyzing and Comparing How Point of View Affects Fiction and Literary Nonfiction
Analyzing and Comparing How Point of View Affects Fiction and Literary Nonfiction
Objectives
Students will review literary elements in fiction and literary nonfiction. Students will:
- identify literary elements of fiction, focusing on character and events.
- identify literary elements of literary nonfiction, focusing on character and events.
- analyze and interpret literary point of view to support comprehension of fiction and literary nonfiction.
Essential Questions
- How does interaction with text provoke thinking and response?
- How do strategic readers create meaning from informational and literary text?
- What is this text really about?
Vocabulary
- Fiction: Any story that is the product of imagination rather than a documentation of fact. Characters and events in such narratives may be based in real life, but their ultimate form and configuration are creations of the author.
- Literary Nonfiction: Text that includes literary elements and devices usually associated with fiction to report on actual persons, places, or events.
- Point of view: The way in which an author reveals characters, events, and ideas in telling a story; the vantage point from which the story is told (first person or third person).
Duration
60–120 minutes/1.5–3 class periods
Prerequisite Skills
Prerequisite Skills haven't been entered into the lesson plan.
Materials
- The Three Little Pigs (by any author)
- The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka. Puffin, 1996.
- Ruth Law Thrills a Nation by Don Brown. Ticknor & Fields, 1993. This book was chosen because it is a third-person narrative. Alternative books should have the same point of view. Teachers may substitute other books to provide a range of reading and level of text complexity.
- Before presenting the lesson, take two photos: one looking out of the classroom and one looking into the classroom.
- large copies of photos showing two views of the same subject—one an extreme close-up and the other farther away
- student copies of Point of View Event Chart (L-4-1-3_ Point of View Event Chart.doc)
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Related Materials & Resources
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- Diary of a Worm by Doreen Cronin. HarperCollins, 2003.
- Giant Children by Brod Bagert. Puffin Books, 2005.
- Six-Dinner Sid by Inga Moore. Aladdin, 1993.
- Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World’s Fastest Woman by Kathleen Krull. Voyager Books, 2000.
- Bicycle Rider by Mary Scioscia. Houghton Mifflin, 1999.
Teachers may substitute other books to provide a range of reading and level of text complexity
Formative Assessment
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Final 03/01/2013