Point of View and Setting in "You Need to Go Upstairs"

Thursday 26 September 2013 for Periods 5 & 6 and Friday 27 September 2013 for Periods 1, 2 & 7


After a devotional text from Proverbs and prayer, students took a quiz over Rumer Godden's "You Need to Go Upstairs."

Students created notes out of a class discussion of the elements of setting in "You Need to Go Upstairs" and their function in the story (creating conflict, creating mood, and/or acting as a symbol).

The class read a series of short stories retelling the same story from different points of view: first person, third person limited, third person omniscient, and second person. Students discussed with the teacher the differences between the four examples and examined the entries for narrator, mood, and tone from their text's handbook of literary terms.

Students took a quiz over point of view, mood, and tone.

Homework: Read "Sonata for Harp and Bicycle" (541-548).