First Person versus Third Person
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Objective
I can identify the difference between first-person and third-person point of view.
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Key concepts
3 concepts
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Point of view or POV tells who is telling the story.
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First person point of view uses words like me, I, my, are, us, and we because the narrator is a character in the story.
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Third person point of view uses words like they, them, there, he, his, him, her, and she because the narrator is outside of the story.
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Practice
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What pronouns are commonly used when writing in the first-person point of view?
Explain the main difference between first-person and third-person point of view.
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Exit ticket
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“What pronouns are used in first-person point of view? What pronouns are used in third-person point of view?”
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