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Harriet Beecher Stowe

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4 Point of View 
Episode: Harriet Beecher Stowe

Lesson Overview

The purpose of the lessons in this unit is to help Ohio students in grades 5-7 learn the characteristics of the literary text POINT OF VIEW indicators that they must master for their respective Ohio achievement tests. Special care has been taken to dovetail the lessons with the indicators and the types of questions commonly asked on Ohio tests. 

Ohio Academic Content Indicators

2001.EL.S05.G04-07.BD.L05.I04     
Identify the speaker and explain how point of view affects the text.

2001.EL.S05.G04-07.BD.L06.I04     
Explain first, third and omniscient points of view, and explain how voice affects the text.

2001.EL.S05.G04-07.BD.G07.I04    
Identify and compare subjective and objective points of view and how they affect the overall body of a work.

Ohio Achievement/Proficiency Tests Point of View Question Types

  • Given a list of characters from a selection, chose the one who is the speaker.
  • Read a sentence from a selection where the speaker is referenced by a pronoun. Who is the speaker?
  • Who is the speaker for the entire selection?
  • Which sentence, of several from a selection, shows that the narrator’s point of view is subjective/objective?
  • How does the author choose to present the entire selection’s point of view?

Harriet Beecher Stowe
Episode Overview

This episode is about the famous 19th century author, Harriet Beecher Stowe, who lived in Ohio for 18 years before the Civil War. In the tall tale portion of the episode, Harriet’s book Uncle Tom’s Cabin grows arms and legs and comes to life when it is faced with being revised. Abraham Lincoln helps to capture and subdue the unruly book.

Access this episode's Before Viewing and After Viewing discussion guides by downloading the complete unit guide.

Point of View Lesson

Materials

Procedure:

  • Use the handout “Point of View” to introduce or review 1st person, 3rd person-limited and 3rd person-omniscient.
  • Remind students to look outside quotation marks when trying to identify the narrator of a written selection.
  • Have the students rewrite the 1st person example from the “Point of View” handout from Markia’s point of view.
  • Have the students rewrite the 3rd person-limited example from the “Point of View” handout from Sam’ perspective.
  • Review or introduce the students to the differences between objective and subjective points of view.

Subjective: the author allows the narrator to have superhuman powers and to share information that includes the thoughts, feelings, and actions of one or more characters.

Objective: the author allows the narrator to have the powers of a video camera and to share only what the camera might see and hear if it was recording the events passing before it. The reader/listener/viewer must add meaning to what is reported by the narrator.