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Lesson 1 (from Chapters 1 - 5)
Objective
This lesson introduces students to George Eliot’s posthumous novel Adam Bede. Students will research the book and author, read Chapter 1, and analyze the narrative style of the work. Published in 1859 under Mary Ann Evans’s pen name George Eliot, the novel is an exploration of love and life in the rural English countryside at the turn of the 19th century.
Lesson
Group Activity: Assign students to groups of 3-4 each. As a group, read Chapter 1. Following the reading, discuss what has been established regarding the main character of the story and how the story is told. Who is the main character in focus in this chapter? How is he described?
Class Discussion: As a class, define and discuss the following terms: narrative point of view, omniscient versus limited narrators, reliable versus unreliable narrators, and narrative tense. Is the narrator of this novel involved in the...
Aligned to the following Common Core Standards:
- ELA-Reading: Literature RL.9-10.1, 9-10.10, 11-12.1, 11-12.3, 11-12.10
- ELA-Writing W.9-10.7, 9-10.10, 11-12.7, 11-12.10
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