Introduction
Students will understand, analyze, and utilize point of view in a short story and their own writing!
Today you will be working on your understanding and usage of the literary element, point of view. By the end of this session, you should be able to:
--Define and understand point of view.
--Understand the difference between first person point of view and third person point of view.
--Describe the unique points of view of characters in a story.
The book "The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs" was written from the wolf's point of view. You are going to choose a fairy tales and rewrite the story from a character's point of view.
Introduction
Have you ever wanted to know the point of view from a character in a story you are reading? Ok I never have, but you maybe. This assignment is going to give you the opportunity to rewrite a fairy tale. We are going to read stories in class that will help us understand The Three Little Pigs story from the wolf's point of view.
Click on the following links, so that you can learn more about point of view.
http://studyzone.org/testprep/ela4/o/pointofviewl.cfm
Task
Your task is to rewrite a fairy tale story from a different point of view. The narrator of the story will be someone other than the person telling the story.
Process
You will read The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs! by Jon Scieszka using the link.
http://www.ricks-bricks.com/wolfside.htm
You will read The Story of the Three Little Pigs by using the link.
http://shortstoriesshort.com/story/the-three-little-pigs/
After reading both of the stories, you will complete the Question and Answer Point of View worksheet.
You are going to rewrite a fairy tale of your choice. You must write the fairy tale from a different point of view. The character who will be narrating the story must be a character from the story. Here is a list of websites with many fairy tales stories. Choose one story. It can be any fairy tale you would like.
Web site list:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~spok/grimmtmp/
http://www.childrenstory.com/tales/
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimmtales.html
Evaluation
| CATEGORY | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| Creativity | The story contains many creative details and/or descriptions that contribute to the reader's enjoyment. The author has really used his imagination. | The story contains a few creative details and/or descriptions that contribute to the reader's enjoyment. The author has used his imagination. | The story contains a few creative details and/or descriptions, but they distract from the story. The author has tried to use his imagination. | There is little evidence of creativity in the story. The author does not seem to have used much imagination. |
| Characters | The main characters are named and clearly described in text as well as pictures. Most readers could describe the characters accurately. | The main characters are named and described. Most readers would have some idea of what the characters looked like. | The main characters are named. The reader knows very little about the characters. | It is hard to tell who the main characters are. |
| Setting | Many vivid, descriptive words are used to tell when and where the story took place. | Some vivid, descriptive words are used to tell the audience when and where the story took place. | The reader can figure out when and where the story took place, but the author didn't supply much detail. | The reader has trouble figuring out when and where the story took place. |
| Writing Process | Student devotes a lot of time and effort to the writing process (prewriting, drafting, reviewing, and editing). Works hard to make the story wonderful. | Student devotes sufficient time and effort to the writing process (prewriting, drafting, reviewing, and editing). Works and gets the job done. | Student devotes some time and effort to the writing process but was not very thorough. Does enough to get by. | Student devotes little time and effort to the writing process. Doesn't seem to care. |
| Title Page | Title page has a graphic or fancy lettering, has the title, author's name, illustrator's name, and the year. | Title page has the title, author's name, illustrator's name, and the year. | Title page has the 3 of the 4 required elements. | Title page has fewer than 3 of the required elements. |
| Spelling and Punctuation | There are no spelling or punctuation errors in the final draft. Character and place names that the author invented are spelled consistently throughout. | There is one spelling or punctuation error in the final draft. | There are 2-3 spelling and punctuation errors in the final draft. | The final draft has more than 3 spelling and punctuation errors. |
Conclusion
So, here's what you've learned:
-- You used a literary text to analyze the concept of point of view and to give you an idea as to what you will be learning about in this webquest;
--You learned how to distinguish between point of view (first person, third person, second person);
-- You crawled inside a character's own mind and wrote about their world from their own point of view.