AP Literature:Welcome Back!

Freire Charter School

Ms. Stacey

Friday, September 19, 2014

Class Bulletin: 9.19.14• What are our objectives?

• Vocab Unit G3 Review (Syn)

• POV Mini-Lesson / Practice

• POV Scene Assignment

• What goes in the bin?• Ch 5 Cornell Notes

• What goes on your desk?• Notebooks open for vocab warm-up

• Who has something to make up?• Zahkeyah, Davon, Angela, Breonna, Najah

Who needs to be in the Writing Center?• For an Appt: N/A

• AP Fellow: N/A

Vocab Unit G3 ReviewSYNONYM MATCH!

1. Articulate A. Despicable

2. Nefarious B. Coherent

3. Piquant C. Ancient

4. Primordial D. Pretend

5. Dissemble E. Zesty

Point of View Review

What is point of view? Who tells the story? How much does this person know? Can we trust this person?

First person (Third-Person) Omniscient Third-Person Limited Stream of Consciousness Objective (AKA Outside Observer AKA Dramatic)

WHAT ARE THE AFFORDANCES + CONSTRAINTS OF EACH?

Lit Lesson 5: Point of View First Person

Author ‘disappears’ within a character, who then tells the story through their voice

Narrator may be a: Major / minor character protagonist / outside observer

Greatly affects interpretation Denies author opportunity to directly comment Enables dramatic irony – when reader perceives

or can infer/predict something more than character can.

Sample: First Person POV

Then I grasped the child's head with my left hand and tried to get the wooden tongue depressor between her teeth. She fought, with clenched teeth, desperately! But now I also had grown furious--at a child. I tried to hold myself down but I couldn't.

--The Use of Force

Lit Lesson 5: Point of View

The Third-Person Omniscient POV Story told in 3rd person by narrator w/ unlimited

knowledge

Can reveal thoughts + feelings of all characters and interpret/comment on them directly to reader

Most “flexible” point of view, but can create confusion in reader because perspective changes from character to character.

LOOK FOR: Descriptions of how a character feels or insights into what they are thinking.

Sample: Third Person Omniscient POV

“He thought Almighty God had dealt cruelly and unjustly with him; and felt, somehow, that he was paying Him back in kind when he stabbed thus into his wife's soul. Moreover he no longer loved her, because of the unconscious injury she had brought upon his home and his name.

She turned away like one stunned by a blow, and walked slowly towards the door, hoping he would call her back.”

--Desiree’s Baby

Lit Lesson 5: Point of View The Third-Person Limited POV

Story told in 3rd person, but through viewpoint of only one character -- narrator never “leaves this character’s side”

Narrator may know more about character than character knows about him/herself—but narrator has no knowledge of other characters other than what they say/do.

***What this character ‘notices’ and comments upon is an important aspect of characterization!!!***

Limited narrator may simply be a narrator—an outsider—but may also be a participant in story.

LOOK FOR: Descriptions of how only one character feels or insights into what they are thinking—but observations only of everyone else.

Sample: Third Person Limited POV

“Out of habit he looks at his watch -- stainless-steel case, burnished aluminum band, still shiny although it no longer works. He wears it now as his only talisman. A blank face is what it shows him: zero hour. It causes a jolt of terror to run through him, this absence of official time. Nobody nowhere knows what time it is.

Calm down, he tells himself. He takes a few deep breaths, then scratches his bug bites, around but not on the itchiest places, taking care not to knock off any scabs: blood poisoning is the last thing he needs.”

--Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

Lit Lesson 5: Point of View Stream of Consciousness

A “variant” of 3rd person limited POV

Text is an apparently random “flow” of thoughts within one character’s head

Mingles memories and current experiences

Transitions between time and topics may be ‘psychological’ instead of logical

Sample: Stream of Consciousness POV

“I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.”

--Ulysses by James Joyce

(This is part of a 4,391-word sentence, all of which is internal monologue!)

Lit Lesson 5: Point of View Objective / “Outside Observer”

AKA ‘dramatic’ perspective - a ‘fly on the wall’

Story is told solely through what can be seen and heard; no comment, interpretation, or insight into characters’ minds.

The ‘purest’ form of this POV would be story in all dialogue.

Requires readers to make all their own inferences.

Sample: Objective POV

It was very late and everyone had left the cafe except an old man who sat in the shadow the leaves of the tree made against the electric light. In the day time the street was dusty, but at night the dew settled the dust and the old man liked to sit late because he was deaf and now at night it was quiet and he felt the difference. The two waiters inside the cafe knew that the old man was a little drunk, and while he was a good client they knew that if he became too drunk he would leave without paying, so they kept watch on him. 

"Last week he tried to commit suicide," one waiter said. "Why?" "He was in despair." "What about?" "Nothing." "How do you know it was nothing?" "He has plenty of money." 

--A Clean, Well-Lighted Place by Ernest Hemingway

P.O.V. Practice

POV Scene Project Prep

To prepare, read/annotate your assigned story and complete 10 dialectical journal entries in your notebook. DJs should be anchored around key terms and topics from Ch 2-5!

• “Paul’s Case” (Angela, Najah, Terrell, Najay)

• “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” (Ikeis, Nawal, Kevin)

• “Hills Like White Elephants” (Zahkeyah, Marcus, Davon)

• “A Rose for Emily” (Semijah, Breonna, Tiffany, Nachaly)

Homework9.19.14

FOR TOMORROW:Review POV notes

Read/annotate your group’s assigned story

LOOKING AHEAD:“Hunters” rewrites due Wed 9/24Vocab Unit G3 Packet Due/Quiz Wed

10/1