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Grade 8 Language · Author’s Purpose and Point of View

Context, Purpose, and Portrayal (Grade 8)

Context and purpose for Grade 8: read a made-up school prize day report from a hundred years ago, sort details into its literary, historical, cultural, and social context, draw conclusions about the author’s purpose from its content, structure, language, and style, say how it portrays girls and whose voice is left out, then explain what that shows about the values of its time. With an answer key.

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Tell why an author wrote a text (to persuade, to inform, to entertain) and what the author thinks, who a text is written for, which form of writing fits a purpose and an audience, and name the narrator's point of view (first, second or third person, limited or all-knowing) and how it shapes what the reader learns.

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  • Have the student underline the pronouns in the passage first: I and we, you, or he, she and they.
  • For each answer, have the student give a quote that shows it.
  • Ask what the reader knows that a character does not, for questions about irony and point of view.

Common mistakes

  • Calling a story first person because it has dialogue with "I". Look at the narration, outside the quotation marks.
  • Mixing up third person limited and omniscient. Omniscient narration shows what several characters think.
  • Calling any surprise irony. Irony is a gap between what is expected and what happens or is meant.

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