Monday April 29

Your double entry journals and discussion questions are due for our first literature circle meeting tomorrow so you'll have time to work on that during period one and then in period 2 Mr. Witty will be doing a lesson with you on effective research skills.

First Literature Circle Meeting

In this activity, your focus should be on the narrative voice.

Narrative voices can be classified as first person (I), second person (you), which is very rare and not present in any of your novel choices, or third person (he, she, it). However, there are further classifications:

Narrative Voice	Explanation	Effect
First Person Involved	The narrator is the protagonist of the story. He or she narrates the events that happen to him or her, but can’t narrate events that the protagonist wouldn’t know about.	The reader closely identifies with the narrator. The reader is not able to “get into the heads” of the other characters.
First Person Observer	The narrator is a character in the story but is not the main character or protagonist. He or she watches and reports on the main characters and events.	The reader is more distanced from the main characters and identifies with the narrator’s outsider perspective. He/she might give the illusion of a lack of bias, but the reader must remember the narrator is still a character created by the author.
Second Person	This is rarely used as a narrative perspective for an entire story, but may be used, for example, when a first person narrator addresses him or herself.	The reader may feel as though he or she is being directly addressed, which can either distance the reader or involve the reader depending on the content.
Third Person Limited	The narrator may be indistinguishable from the author, but only narrates the events from the perspective of one character (or may switch between a few characters).	This distances the reader (and the writer) from the main characters and allows the reader to feel more like an observer than a participant.
Third Person Omniscient	The narrator knows all and sees all. He/she is not limited to the perspective of one or two characters.	This is the most distancing of all narrative voices and may invite the reader to analyse and pass judgement more readily.