Salt to the Sea Lesson Plan

Four Narrators: Part II

Kind of Activity:

Group Discussion

Objective:

Discuss the use of point of view as a storytelling tool in the novel.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.5

Structure:

The author makes a bold and distinctive choice where the novel’s craft is concerned: alternating between very short, first-person sections from four different points of view. In small groups, students should discuss the following questions:

- What are the strengths of the choice to structure the novel in short, first-person sections? What things does this allow the novel to do that a different structure would prevent? (For example: it places the reader directly in the...