Long Sentences and Point of View

Long Sentences and Point of View

Today we worked on how to parse some of Lee’s longer sentences in the novel. They’ll tend to fade away as we read, but at the moment, we’ve got to work through some pretty complicated sentences. We talked today about the importance of determining the...
Narrator and Point of View

Narrator and Point of View

Students in this week’s first in-school lesson looked at perspective and point of view. We began with a strange activity in which students studied one particular portion of the room and then made a list of things they saw. From this we were able to determine...

Voice and Perspective

English I students began the second analytic short story writing project today by thinking a bit about perspective and point of view (“Where you stand determines what you see.”), which we accomplished with an odd-looking exercise. Later, we went through...