It's true...from this P.O.V.
What is 1st person P.O.V.?
Ex. I, we, me, my, our
Yellowstone covers more than two million acres of land.
Action verb: covers
What is a noun?
A person, place, thing, or idea.
Where does Rachel want to toss her red sweater?
The alley.
Lllamas
What is 3rd person P. O. V.?
The story is told by a narrator who is not in the story.
Ex. She, he, they, them, proper nouns
Many species of wildflowers grow in the Rocky Mountains.
Action verb: grow
What is the proper noun in the sentence?
Emily bought ten scrunchies to put on her hair.
Proper: Emily
Which of the following abilities does the narrator mainly believe older people have that younger people don't?
A. The wisdom to handle a tough situation
B. The ability to fall in love
C. The ability to laugh at themselves
D. The knowledge of when someone is being cruel
A. The wisdom to handle a tough situation
How are we supposed to transition into groups in this class?
Quickly, quietly, and safely.
"Our rental cabin was on the south shore, way out at the tip of Long Island. It was a little pastel box with faded curtains, half sunken into the dunes. There was always sand in the sheets and spiders in the cabinets, and most of the time the sea was too cold to swim in."
1st person POV
Dogs seem sensitive to sounds.
Linking Verb: seem
What is the common noun in the sentence?
Spill the tea sis.
Common noun: sis
What does the following passage mainly reveal about the narrator (paragraph 12)?
"I don't know why but all of a sudden I'm feeling sick inside, like the part of me that's three wants to come out of my eyes, only I squeeze them tightly shut and bite down on my teeth real hard and try to remember today I am eleven, eleven."
A. She exaggerates her feeling sometimes
B. She wants to hide from her teacher
C. She feels unwell and worries she's coming down with a cold.
D. She wants to cry but reminds herself she should be old enough not to.
D. She wants to cry but reminds herself she's old enough not to.
Verb Tense
Ms.V's students will be the top A.R. readers in the whole school!
Future Tense: will
"Not that he had much to say. He was thirteen and the only passenger on the plane with a pilot named—what was it? Jim or Jake or something—who was in his mid-forties and who had been silent as he worked to prepare for take-off. In fact since Brian had come to the small airport in Hampton, New York to meet the plane—driven by his mother—the pilot had spoken only five words to him."
3rd person limited
Their noses are extremely sensitive.
Linking verb: are
What are the common and proper nouns in this sentence?
Does this book on Egypt belong to Maria?
Common nouns: book
Proper nouns: Egypt, Maria
Explain what Rachel means in Paragraph 3.
"Because the way you grow old is kind of like an onion or like the rings inside a tree trunk or like my little wooden dolls that fit one inside the other, each year inside the next one. That is how being eleven years old is."
She thinks that people are made up of all their past ages.
Verb tense
John Ray helps me with my ELA homework.
Present tense: helps
“Harry had taken up his place at wizard school, where he and his scar were famous … but now the school year was over, and he was back with the Dursleys for the summer, back to being treated like a dog that had rolled in something smelly … The Dursleys hadn’t even remembered that today happened to be Harry’s twelfth birthday. Of course, his hopes hadn’t been high?”
3rd person omniscient
We will order Hot Cheetos with cheese at the raspa stand.
Future tense: will
Identify the common and proper nouns in the sentence below.
May we have a picnic at Lincoln Park this weekend?
Common: we
Proper: Lincoln Park
In paragraph 22, how can we describe what Rachel is feeling?
"I'm eleven today. I'm eleven, ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, and one, but I wish I was one hundred and two. I want today to be far away already, far away like a runaway balloon, like a tiny o in the sky, so tiny-tiny you have to close your eyes to see it."
She is feeling ashamed. She was painfully humiliated in class and wants her 11th birthday to be so far away from her that she won't ever have to think about it again.
Verb Tense
Rami called each person on the list.
Past tense: called