Siddhartha Lesson Plan

Point of View in Siddhartha

Kind of Activity:

Individual Writing

Objective:

Students will be able to analyze point of view and character development.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.1

Structure:

Ask students to identify and discuss the point of view of the story. Ask them to make a list of qualities that third-person narrators bring to storytelling. Steer the conversation so that they unpack the nuances that come with a third person, omniscient narration.

Ask students to identify a passage where the narrator shares Siddhartha's inner thoughts. Ask questions about what the function of the storyteller is in that passage. What is that passage helping us see...