Lesson 3: Narration and Claims

Learning Intentions

Define point of view and symbolism and identify both in a text.
Analyse the trustworthiness of a first person narrator in a structured paragraph.
Analyze the effect of an author’s choice of words in the form of a tiered analysis table.

Essential Question

How can an author use narration to develop a theme?

Task 1: Symbolism Show-and-Tell

Watch the video explaining what symbolism is. After, go online and find three images of concrete elements which could symbolise how you feel about school.

Write a short Tweet (Max 140 characters) for each object explaining why you chose it to symbolise your feelings towards school.

Task 2: Make Predictions

Look at the images below. These images are all related to this lesson's short story: The Tell-Tale Heart by Egdar Allan Poe.

Look at the images and try to predict:

Setting
Characters
Theme
Tone/Mood
Plot
Symbols

Task 3: Review Perspective

This week's essential question looks at how a theme can be developed through narration or perspective, otherwise known as point of view. In Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart, the narration of the story is one of the most powerful elements. It develops theme, makes us more engaged with the character, and creates the story's very peculiar mood. Check out this week's Element of Lit video before reading the story in order to identify how narration is used to develop the theme.

Task 4: Read the short story

Context Slides

Audiobook and Analysis

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to read the story as it is without text aids.

Task 5: Class Discussion

Using the itinerary, guiding questions, and timers, organize a student-led discussion.

Two students should facilitate the discussion.

The purpose of the discussion is to enhance our understanding of the text.

Itinerary, Guiding Questions, & Timers

Task 6: Writing Focus

This class, our writing focus will be CLAIMS. The claim is what drives our writing. Everything that comes after simply supports this claim. Thus, it goes without saying the claims need to be strong!

Watch this video about claims before continuing. As you begin your journey on how to efficiently communicate through writing, consider how claims drive our evidence and analysis.

Task 7: Putting it all together!

PART I: ANALYSIS TABLE

Using what you learnt last lesson, find THREE literary devices or interesting pieces of lexical choice/diction that the author uses. Once you have the quotes you wish to analyse, use the three-tier system to do so.

PART II: (partly complete) CL.E.A.R PARAGRAPH

Using what you now know about claims, evidence, and analysis, write a structured CL.E.A.R paragraph which answers the following prompt:

Is the narrator of Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart reliable?

You should have:

A strong, debatable claim.
Carefully selected, contextualised, and embedded evidence.
A three-tiered analysis.

Note: You will be missing the R of CL.E.A.R. This final part is what we will cover next lesson.

Task 8: Reflect

As you finish the lesson, answer the essential question in one sentence and submit via the comments on Google Classroom.

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