Activities

1. Define the different points of view that can be used in a narrative text.
   
   
2. Define the difference between narrator and character in a narrative text.

3. Determine which events should be placed in the narrative text at which point based on natural and logical chronological events. 
   
   
4. Distinguish which events in a narrative text are out of order and arrange them into proper order.

5. Develop a narrative piece in which the writer describes an event in chronological order using sufficient, rich details.
   
   
6. Using the same text as in question one, differentiate how that text would be different if written in third person (if the original was written in first person) and in first person (if the original was written in third person).

Answer Key/Rubric

1. Student defines:

• First person point of view – The story is told from the perspective of a character in the story.  Key clues to a first person point of view text is the use of the word “I” and limited knowledge of other events in the story because no one person can know everything that is happening.
• Third person point of view – A narrator, who does not have a part in the story, tells the story.  This narrator can write more about one character than the other but the reader learns about all of the characters in this style.
• Third person omniscient point of view – A narrator, who does not have a part in the story, tells the story but knows everything about every character and every situation.

2. Students define

• Character – a “person” who takes part in the story.
• Narrator – a “person” who tells the story.

3. Student determines, based on the writing prompt, the appropriate chronological order.  Students can brainstorm all the details they can think of about a specific writing prompt and, as an organizational or planning strategy, can either number the sections to indicate where they should belong in a narrative text or can cut out the chunks of information and physically move them around to place them in proper chronological/logical order.  Student will engage in the pre-writing process of brainstorming and planning.
    
4. Student identifies which events in a narrative text should be placed in which order.  This can be done by cutting up a paragraph of text and having students arrange them in chronological or other logical order.  Similarly, student can move paragraphs of text around in a digital document in the same manner.
   
   
5. Student demonstrates an ability to write a narrative text based on a writing prompt using sufficient details and placing those details in chronological or other logical order.
   
   
6. Student will demonstrate an understanding of different narrative structures depending on first person point of view (character point of view) or third person point of view (outside narrator point of view).  Student will demonstrate an understanding that first person point of view is limited in that the reader knows only about events and character from the perspective of a single character in the text.  Similarly, student will demonstrate an understanding that narrator (third person point of view) can include more/different information than that provided by a single character within a narrative text.