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Lesson 1 (from "Roots" (Preface) - "Adam Appich")
Objective
This lesson introduces students to Richard Powers’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Overstory. Students will research the author, read the Preface and “Nicholas Hoel,” and identify and discuss the narrative style of the work. The Overstory follows the narratives of nine Americans whose paths intertwine through a shared connection to trees. Author Richard Powers relates their stories from a third-person narrator whose focus shifts from one character to the next in each chapter.
Lesson
Group Activity: Assign students to groups of 3-4 each. As a group, read the opening vignette of “Roots” and “Nicholas Hoel.” Following the reading, discuss what has been established regarding the main characters of the story and how the story is told.
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...
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, 11-12.7
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