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title: What's the Point of View?
description: Students will analyze how an author develops and contrasts points of views of characters in a text.
image: https://ideas.pixton.com/hubfs/what_s_the_point_of_view_-001.png
---

**Subject: ELA (English Language Arts)**

**Lesson Length: 1 hour**

**Topic: Character Point of View**

**Grade Level: 7**

**Standards / Framework: **

- [CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.7.6](https://learning.ccsso.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/ELA_Standards1.pdf)

**Brief Description:**  Students will analyze how an author develops and contrasts points of views of characters in a text.

**Know Before You Start:** This lesson will help students understand how characters in a fictional text can have varying points of view.

**Hook:**

- Read the sample comic. Discuss how each character has a different point of view regarding the damage to the house. How might these differing views cause problems for these roommates? 
- Discuss an event within a familiar fictional text. Have students compare and contrast each character’s unique point of view regarding the event. 
- Explain how authors use a character's point of view to develop the story. 

**Activity:**

- Have students read and analyze a fictional passage in order to understand the characters’ points of view. 
- Have students create a comic demonstrating each character’s point of view regarding an event in the story.

**Closure:**

- Extend the learning by having students discuss their comics and write a written reflection of how the author used character point of view to develop the story or novel.

**Differentiation:**

- Allow students to use the speech-to-text feature.
- Allow students to use the voiceover feature to read their comics aloud.
- Preteach vocabulary, e.g., compare, contrast, points of view, event, and theme.
- Provide a Venn-Diagram for students to use to compare points of view.
- Allow students to work with a peer model.
- Provide sentence starters as needed.

**Resources:**

- Comic to print or display: [Comic](https://share.pixton.com/qte2deb).
- Venn Diagrams: [Option 1](https://ideas.pixton.com/hubfs/Printables/Graphic%20Organizers_06.pdf), [Option 2](https://ideas.pixton.com/hubfs/Printables/Graphic%20Organizers_05.pdf).
- You will need a familiar text to use as an example.
- Students will need a fictional passage to read and analyze.

**Suggested Content:**

- [![](https://img.pixton.com/content-pack/2080632412506673152/thumbnail.png) Roll Of Thunder Hear My Cry ](https://content.pixton.com/roll-of-thunder-hear-my-cry)
- [![](https://img.pixton.com/content-pack/2088291610146664448/thumbnail.png) A Wrinkle In Time ](https://content.pixton.com/a-wrinkle-in-time)
- [![](https://img.pixton.com/content-pack/2080631626993225728/thumbnail.png) The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer ](https://content.pixton.com/the-adventures-of-tom-sawyer)
- [![](https://img.pixton.com/content-pack/1629220257463967744/thumbnail.png) The Outsiders ](https://content.pixton.com/the-outsiders)
- [![](https://ideas.pixton.com/hubfs/thumbnail-secretgarden.png) The Secret Garden ](https://content.pixton.com/the-secret-garden)
- [![](https://ideas.pixton.com/hubfs/thumbnail-annegreengables.png) Anne Of Green Gables ](https://content.pixton.com/anne-of-green-gables)

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