Eight Plus One: Stories Lesson Plan

Unreliable Narrators

Kind of Activity:

Group Work

Objective:

Note techniques used by the author to convey that a narrator is unreliable.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.3, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.4

Structure:

All of the stories in this collection have one major thing in common: they all are narrated in the first person. This means that the events of each story are subjective to the narrator, shaped by their life experiences, biases, and relationships. What the narrator tells us (and how) gives the reader information about who that character is, what is important to them, and the way they see the world. Likewise, what we know about the narrator should...