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- 1. How do Washington’s word choices illustrate his point of view?
- 2. In this lesson, you will learn to identify an author’s point of view by identifying and explaining important word choices. Word Choices What’s my point of view?
- 3. Let’s Review
- 4. Core Lesson 1 2 3 Reread your selection, and notice word choices that the author uses to talk about the main idea. Brainstorm what the words makes you think of and what kind of a perspective a person who uses them would have. Ask yourself: what is the author’s point of view?
- 5. Core Lesson My life had its beginning in the midst of the most miserable, desolate, and discouraging surroundings. This was so, however, not because my owners were especially cruel, for they were not, as compared with many others. I was born in a typical log cabin, about fourteen by sixteen feet square. In this cabin I lived with my mother and a brother and sister till after the Civil War, when we are all declared free. How do Washington’s word choices illustrate his point of view? What do these words tell me about the author?
- 6. Core Lesson • Sophisticated way to say sad, depressed • Alone, lonely, but again, fancy language • Nice alliteration, losing courage My life had its beginning in the midst of the most miserable, desolate, and discouraging surroundings. This was so, however, not because my owners were especially cruel, for they were not, as compared with many others. I was born in a typical log cabin, about fourteen by sixteen feet square. In this cabin I lived with my mother and a brother and sister till after the Civil War, when we are all declared free. What does this brainstorm tell me about the author’s point of view?
- 7. Core Lesson Point of View Brainstorm • Sophisticated way to say sad, depressed • Alone, lonely, but again, fancy language • Nice alliteration, losing courage What does this brainstorm tell me about the author’s point of view? Washington is a sophisticated, well educated man who feels great sadness about his life as a slave.
- 8. Core Lesson Reread your selection, and notice word choices that the author uses to talk about the main idea. 1 2 Brainstorm what the word makes you think of and what kind of perspective a person who uses them would have. 3 Ask yourself: what is the author’s point of view?
- 9. In this lesson, you have learned to identify an author’s point of view by identifying and explaining important word choices.
Editor's Notes
- We remember that in order to analyze word choice we will begin by diving back into the text for a second read. As we read over the text for a 2nd or 3rd time, we’re noticing what choices the author is making. Chapter 1 of Booker T Washington’s Up from Slavery details Washington’s early life as a slave, and then his transition to being a freedman with the conclusion of the Civil War.
- -So, first thing’s first. In order to answer the questions of how Washington’s word choices illustrate his point of view, I need to dive back into the text and reread it noticing word choices that the author uses to talk about the main idea. (re read) -Notice that I don’t go for the surface level words, the ones describing the cabin where he lived, but instead I go for words that show something about who Washington is. He’s the kind of man who uses words like miserable, desolate, and discouraging.
- Now that I’ve pick out some interesting words, the next step is to brainstorm what they make me think of and what kind of perspective a person who uses them would have. So I think to myself, “hm, miserable that sounds like a sophisticated way to say sad or depressed. Desolate sounds so lonely, and alone, but very fancy. Discouraging means he’s losing courage, but that word also makes me notice that all three words started with the same sound. Ooh, nice alliteration.” The final step is to look over my brainstorm and draw some conclusions about what the author’s point of view is.
- As I look over the words I wrote down in my brainstorm, I realize that the author, Washington, is a very sophisticated writer, he is well educated, but he also feels great sadness about his life as a slave.