How Era, Place, and Events Shape a Text (Grades 6–8)
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How Era, Place, and Events Shape a Text (Grades 6–8)
How context shapes a text for Grades 6 to 8: read a made-up front page from a drought year and a town festival post from today, both about one valley, and explain how the era, the geography, and the events of each time shape what each media text says and how it represents the river. 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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How to use this sheet
- 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.
