Point of View
What point of view uses the words I and We?
First Person
What is the first step of the writing process?
Pre-Write or Brainstorm!
Bonus points! QUICK! Someone from your team tell me what time the school day starts!
7:45 am
fact or opinion
The clear, blue water was 300 feet deep.
Fact
Giant pandas live in bamboo forests in China. The average giant panda eats about 30 pounds of bamboo each day. Unfortunately, the forests are being cut down and the giant panda is losing its habitat.
Giant pandas are losing their habitat.
Which point of view gives only the thoughts and feelings of one character?
limited
What is a rough draft of a paper?
You get 200 points!
What is Narrative writing?
Writing a story that is real or imagined, and the purpose is to entertain the reader.
What is fact?
A fact can be proved true or false
Here is something fun to try. Lay an egg on its side and try to make it spin. If it is not hard-boiled the shifting liquid inside will make it spin poorly. If it is hard-boiled the solid inside will make it spin faster and longer.
You can tell if an egg is hard-boiled by spinning it.
Which point of view gives the thoughts and feelings of more than one character?
omniscient
What is the last step in the writing process?
Publish or share your work
What type of writing tries to convince you to change your mind about something?
Persuasive writing.
The sun is a gas ball.
Fact
The Maasai people in East depend on their cattle for most of their food. They sell cattle to outsiders to pay for the things they need. They spend most of their time tending to their cows.
The lives of the Maasai people are centered around their cattle.
Who or what determines the point of view in the story?
narrator
What does editing your paper mean? (3 things)
You are fixing grammatical mistakes - capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.
Which type of writing requires a problem, solution, and dialogue?
narrative
My friend is the best.
The department of Fish and Wildlife gives each participating classroom 500 salmon eggs. When the eggs hatch, the children care for the baby salmon and learn about their life cycle. When the salmon are big enough, the class goes on a field trip to release the salmon into a stream or river. What is the main idea of this paragraph?
School children are raising salmon.
What point of view uses the words He, She, It, and They?
3rd person
Do 5 pushups each for 500 points.
Congratulations! You earned 500 points!
What type of writing is told to teach you something or inform you about something?
Expository/Informative Writing.
The Sun is a 4.6-billion-year-old yellow dwarf star containing 99.86% of our solar system's mass.
fact
Kangaroos spend most of their time in groups called mobs. Kangaroos communicate with each other with clicks, cough, hisses, and growls. They also groom each other by picking dirt, insects, and dead skin from each other's fur.
Kangaroos are very social animals.