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Lesson 1 (from Section 1" "The Scarlet Ibis")
Objective
Students will make predictions about the impact of a first-person narrative point of view on the reader's experience of "The Scarlet Ibis."
"The Scarlet Ibis" is narrated by one of its main characters. Though the narrator is only six when the story begins and 12 or 13 at the time when the story concludes, he narrates the story from a removal in time of at least several years. Explaining this in advance will clear up confusion about the sequence of events at the beginning of the story and offer students practice in thinking about how point of view impacts a reader.
Lesson
Reading and Discussion: Read aloud the first two paragraphs of "The Scarlet Ibis," and then discuss: Who is speaking? What do we call this kind of narrator? What are the advantages of a first-person narrator? What are the disadvantages? What can you figure out so far...
Aligned to the following Common Core Standards:
- ELA-Reading: Literature RL.9-10.5, 9-10.10, 11-12.3, 11-12.5, 11-12.10
- ELA-Writing W.9-10.10, 11-12.10
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