Independent Reading Text: 100% Check on Point-of-View

Before the quiz:  To prepare for the 100% novel check-in, you should locate direct excerpts for as many of
the following categories as possible on the worksheet. 
http://www.scribd.com/doc/26677281/Point-of-View-Worksheet


The quiz assignment:

Point of View Composition

In the days before texting, instant messaging, wikis, and blogs, people wrote diaries to describe their innermost feelings.  In this assignment, you will write from the point of view of the protagonist of your independent reading text.  This assignment will demonstrate your ability to identify personally with the protagonist, to show how you empathize with her or his conflicts, and to identify how life experiences help mold and change a person's identity.  Happy creative writing!  Here are the criteria.

Protagonist Point of View Criteria

Structure:  You must write in first person narrator:  the point of view of your protagonist. You should choose a style that best duplicates how an individual would think on paper about her or himself, such as a journal or letter. [Other style choices are okay, too.] Please write in multiple paragraphs.  You'll type at school during class writers' workshop time.

100% point of the novel:  You must write from the 50-100% mark of your novel.  This is the section of your protagonist’s greatest tensions and most intense decision-making.

Style:  You must incorporate correct prose Standard English conventions (complete sentences; paragraphs; correct dialogue quotation marks; correct MLA formatting).

Direct excerpts:  You must include 10 direct excerpts from the original text.  Additionally, you must embed the excerpts within your own sentences.  Here is an example, written by Dr. Carolyn:

 Why did I say to my mother, “Some things must stay, and other things must go” (Kingsolver 404)?[1] I should have known it would offend her, just like the time I stole “a little leather-bound accounts book” (358).  She never understood the apprehension I had felt, the way I was torn between terror and curiosity.  She had been “taken aback” (384) then, and she certainly didn’t understand me now.

Rubric for 100% Outside Novel: 

The Point of View of the Protagonist

Criteria	Description	Possible points	Your points
Style: Narrator	first person narrator:  the point of view of your protagonist	3
Length	minimum of 3 paragraphs (more is fine and can indicate a strong writing ability)	3
100% point of the novel	Each excerpt that is cited is drawn from the 50-100% mark of your novel: the greatest tensions and most intense decision-making	3
Style:  prose Standard English conventions	complete sentences; paragraphs; correct dialogue quotation marks; correct MLA formatting.	6
Embedded Direct excerpts	10 direct excerpts from the original text embedded within your own sentences	15
Totals		Possible 30	Your total

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[1] Kingsolver, Barbara.  The Lacuna.  2009. Harper Collins.