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Lesson 1 (from Chapters 1 - 3)
Objective
This lesson introduces students to Kate DiCamillo’s children’s novel, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane. Students will research the author and her works, read Chapter 1, and analyze and discuss the narrative style of the novel. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane is related from the perspective of a third-person narrator with limited focus on its protagonist, Edward, a three-foot-tall china rabbit owned initially by a girl named Abilene.
Lesson
Group Activity: Assign students to groups of 3-4 each. As a group, read Chapter 1 of the novel and discuss the information that has been related. Who are the main characters that have been established? What are the circumstances surrounding these characters?
Class Discussion: As a class, define and discuss the following terms: narrative point of view, omniscient versus limited narrators, reliable versus unreliable narrators, and narrative tense. Is the narrator of this novel involved in...
Aligned to the following Common Core Standards:
- ELA-Reading: Literature RL.9-10.10, 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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