- Students will work in pairs to retell the story of Little Red Riding Hood from different perspectives, with one student telling it from Red's perspective and the other from the Wolf's perspective.
- This activity aims to help students understand narrative point of view by experiencing different character perspectives in a familiar story.
1. In pairs,
– one of you is going to tell the story of Red
Riding Hood from her perspective
– one of you is going to tell the story from
the Wolf’s perspective
Connect
2. We have been learning
about how to study
narrative ready for our
novel “Of Mice and Men”
You will be examined on
this text at the end of
year 10 and have to do
some controlled assessment
before Christmas
Big Picture
3. Today:
Understand and evaluate Steinbeck’s
use of point of view
Work out what Give evidence Understand Evaluate why
point of view of this from what affect Steinbeck uses
Steinbeck uses the text Steinbeck’s use this particular
of point of point of view
view has on
Learning Outcomes the reader
4. Point of View
The story is told from the point of view
of a third-person omniscient narrator,
who can access the point of view of any
character as required by the narrative.
New Information
5. Reading
We’re going to read one of the most
dramatic scenes in the novella.
As we listen, write down any words which
demonstrate that it’s third-person
omniscient narrator
New Information
6. Points of view
• Find a quote to show that the story is
shown in the third-person omniscient
• Write an explanation below to say why
this shows it is third-person omniscient
Activity
8. Points of View
Using the report conventions, write a file
about the incident that occurred:
1. Number 1 is going to do it from Curley’s
point of view
2. Number 2 is going to do it from Lennie’s
point of view
3. Number 3 is going to do it from the
third-person omniscient point of view
Demonstrate
9. Report on the barn incident involving
Curley and Lennie
Using the report conventions, write a file
about the incident that occurred
Demonstrate
10. Point of view
• What point of view is used? Show me
evidence
• What affect does this have on the
reader?
• Why has Steinbeck chosen this point of
view?
Review
11. Today:
Understand and evaluate Steinbeck’s
use of point of view
Work out what Give evidence Understand Evaluate why
point of view of this from what affect Steinbeck uses
Steinbeck uses the text Steinbeck’s use this particular
of point of point of view
view has on
Review the reader
12. Easy PEESY!
• Include a point (for example ‘Candy’s
dog may represent all the workers who
get too old to work on the ranch’)
• Include a relevant quotation
• Explain the quotation
• Squeeze the quotation
• Explain why Steinbeck has done this
(writer’s intention)
• Talk about the effect on the reader
13. On your PEE paragraph…
Label the different parts with the
number – this will help me to judge
where you are up to and which bits
you don’t understand!
Review
14. Quotation bank!
• What quotations can you add to your
quotation bank?
– These can be useful ones in terms of
talking about:
• Character
• Setting
• Themes
• Steinbeck’s techniques
Notas do Editor
Pg.69 (The door opened) – end of chapterDisc 2 Track 5 (Start)
Pg.69 (The door opened)Disc 2 Track 5 (Start)
The limited omniscient third person narrator almost seems to mirror the characters of the play; in this hard-hitting, straight-shooting story, it simply wouldn’t be fitting to have a narrator gushing about how everyone feels all the time. The characters of the novella tend to speak volumes with their silences (like when Candy can’t defend his dog, or Crooks can’t defend his status against Curley’s wife, or Lennie clams up around Curley). The ranch isn’t full of guys who like to wax philosophic. Without personal commentary or a narrator’s insight, the characters’ actions and speech alone do the most honest job of getting at who they really are.
Where are they? Evidence for them being there and write down how.