check out this pine tree how many pine trees do you think are in Hartwick Pine State Park in grayy Michigan where there are almost 50 acres of Forest for sightseers to enjoy I'm Mrs defa and when my children and I visited the state park we couldn't count all of those Majestic Pines another cool feature we enjoyed at this state park is the Logging Museum which inspired me to write what I learned I started imagining stories from different viewpoints like The Lumberjacks and the trees we just showed you writers craft stories from different points of view for readers today we will read two stories one in third person point of view from a Lumberjack's perspective and the other in firstperson point of view from a pine tree's perspective what does point of view mean point of view is a character's Viewpoint or how they experience something from their position when we experience different events like going to Harwick Pine State Park we experience that Park from our own persp perspective or point of view like I did I love the leftover rain that sprinkled on my kids and me as we walked through the trails in that sentence I use firstperson point of view which is when a person or character tells about an experience from their own perspective using pronouns like I and we I could also recount our visit to Harwick Pine State Park from my children's perspective using a third person point of view my children folded their arms arms against the cold weather wishing they had brought their sweatshirts third person point of view is when a person or character story or experience is told from a narrator's perspective or from another character's perspective using pronouns such as they he him she and her as we read aloud we will learn about lumbering from each character's perspective let's begin with a lumberjack story The Lumberjack followed other loggers to the work site his stomach filled with pancakes he tapped the piece of vinegar pie in his wool pocket towering pine tree surrounded him he felt lonely as he journeyed quietly missing his wife and children he knew the day's hard work of cutting the first harvest of white pine trees held danger although accidents were common doctors were not The Lumberjack knew he had to be careful yesterday his bunkmate was injured by a Fallen Tree he needed to work through the winter with the other lumberjack to cut the timber down the simple machines inclin planes pulleys and levers helped the team load logs he knew the logs were needed to make materials like roof shingles fence posts and railroad ties although some of his fellow Lumberjacks made lumbering a career he looked forward to returning to his farm in the spring so he could tell his children about the logging Camp which point of view was used in this story third or first right third person let's explore what we learned through the Lumberjack story we learned that he ate pancakes for breakfast dressed in Wool to keep warm snacked on vinegar pie faced danger cutting down Pines during the winter and didn't have access to a doctor his team used simple machines to load logs which made building materials he was a farmer who missed his family before we jump into our next story from a pine trees firstperson point of view it's important to think of this word personification when a writer gives voice to a non living thing as if it were speaking the writer is using personification you'll see throughout this next story that the red pine tree has human traits or traits of a person a red pine tree story last night's winter storm forced me to sway but the winds cannot remove me from the strong roots I have grown for the last last 200 years I will live another two centuries soaking up the sun's energy sipping the water from my roots and feeding my pine cones I watched The Lumberjacks cut down White Pines first they appear so small from my viewpoint when 150 ft High into the sky I know I may be next when they return with their axes and saws I try not to think of their saws cutting through my 12T diameter trunk slice by slice if they do cut me down I know I will be transported away from the only home I've ever known instead of thinking about The Lumberjacks collecting Timber I choose to stand strong within this old growth Pine Forest there are so many ancient pine trees like me each year a new ring grows on the inside of us these Rings grown year after year will continue to tell our story revealing our history which point of view was used in this story third or first right first person let's explore what we learned through the red pine tree story from the red pine trees perspective we learned that the tree could live another 200 years or two centuries the tree is 150 ft tall with a trunk diameter of 12 ft this red pine lives in an old growth Pine Forest that has ancient trees history is a story with many different points of view just like The Lumberjacks and the pine trees May have different points of view about lumbering in Michigan during the late 1800s we can use point of view as readers writers and speakers to help us better understand different experiences