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Lesson 1 (from Chapters 1 – 4)
Objective
This lesson introduces students to Marlon James’s fantasy novel Black Leopard, Red Wolf. Students will research the author, read the beginning of Chapter 1, and identify and discuss the narrative style and genre of the work. Black Leopard, Red Wolf, is related through a frame narrative, which means that the main story is related within a story. Tracker’s first-person narrative of his quest for a missing boy is directed to an unnamed Inquisitor as he sits in a prison cell, presumably charged with murder.
Lesson
Group Activity: Assign students to groups of 3-4 each. As a group, read the first pages of Chapter 1 (pages 12 through 19). Following the reading, discuss what has been established regarding the main character of the story and how the story is told. What is the relationship between the narrator and the man he calls Inquisitor? Where is he located as he...
Aligned to the following Common Core Standards:
- ELA-Reading: Literature RL.9-10.1, 9-10.10, 11-12.1, 11-12.3, 11-12.10
- ELA-Writing W.9-10.7, 9-10.10, 11-12.7, 11-12.10
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