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Lesson 1 (from Chapters 1 – 5)
Objective
This lesson introduces students to Roald Dahl’s children’s novel: Danny, the Champion of the World. Students will research the author, read Chapter 1, and analyze the narrative style of the book. Danny, the Champion of the World is a 1975 novel that follows Danny, a nine-year-old boy who lives with his father. Danny narrates the story from his first-person perspective and establishes in the first chapter that he adores his father.
Lesson
Group Activity: Assign students to groups of 3-4 each. As a group, read Chapter 1 of Danny, the Champion of the World and discuss the information related in the chapter. Who is the main character of the story? What information is related about this character?
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
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