Call Me By Your Name Lesson Plan

Who is telling the story?

Kind of Activity:

Technology

Objective:

To explore how the choice of narrator affects the story and to understand how the author executes this narrative decision.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.3, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.11-12.5

Structure:

Ask students: Who is the narrator of Call Me By Your Name? When this question has been answered as a class, students will work individually to create PowerPoint presentations explaining the effect of having an older Elio narrate the story. What clues identify the older Elio as the narrator? What information do we learn that we wouldn’t know if the narrator were the young version of Elio that’s...