Homework due September 1, 2009

Write ½ page (notebook) about your experience in kindergarten. (Write in the first-person point of view.)

Copy these class notes into your notebook:

1st person point of view:

• uses "I, me, my, we, our"
• narrator is character in story
• narrator only knows her/his own thoughts (no one else’s)

3rd person point of view:

• narrator not a character in story
• narrator knows every character’s thoughts (if omniscient)
• letters, diaries, “eyewitness” stories
  

classwork:
Write a 3-sentence story about a kid buying chips. Write it twice:

1. Use 1st person point of view;
2. Use 3rd person point of view.