4.4.16

WU: POV With a partner, pick one of the following situations and describe it as if you have complete control of the situation, it rests on your shoulders, and no one else could have affected the outcome. > > >
 * You are in a group project and your group got a really high, or a really low grade.
 * You were attempting to climb to the top of Mt. Hood and you made it...or you had to give up before the summit.
 * You are involved in an extracurricular activity and your club/team wins the state championship…or loses in the final round.

Now, take the same situation you described, and try to remove personal responsibility or ownership from the situation and reverse blame. Use the same sentence(s), but change the tone.

Ex.:

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 * 1)  I didn’t get the job. I’ve worked so hard for so many years, but I guess I didn’t do enough. What did I do wrong? Did I say something wrong?

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 * 1)  No one could have gotten that job even with a perfect interview. They are keeping me from the job I deserve after years of earning it. They asked the wrong questions; they didn’t listen to what I had to say.

What did you do to change from the first sentence to the second one?

As a reader, how do the two sentences affect us? Who’s the “good” or “bad” person in each?

What does this tell us about POV or who tells the story?

Read: Book 9--Polyphemus' Cave (stop #4 on your map) with focus on POV. How does Odysseus' telling of the story affect our perception of events/people?

HW: Prep for debate next class: Picking EITHER Polyphemus or Odysseus, prepare the front page of the assignment linked below. Odysseus: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1G2zgXTlNbHQrOgAk4c6-xqkj8gd04pS8NUAXN77cBMo/edit?usp=sharing

Polyphemus:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rxOkX_Rz0eBMaDqH_el3sldSoL2Fz0joAc9puIi_FwY/edit?usp=sharing