This activity allows students to explore the unique literary voice of the narrator as a misleading persona. The Ponder Heart by Eudora Welty. The assignment is designed for all grade level reading abilities for secondary school and would work well with an English or Language Arts class at levels 7-9.
Students move through and beyond the literature.
This exercise may be extended to incorporate a creative writing task requiring narrative writing in the first person point of view. Write a personal creative writing narrative Skills Attained Understanding of first person point of view with the narrator's voice as a misleading character Collaboration with classmates on a presentation of literary characterization Dramatic interpretation skills to present a character to the class Narrative writing Lesson Outline I. Anticipatory Set 1. The Ponder Heart by Eudora Welty, discuss the point of view from which the story is told. Point out how the character Edna Earle Ponder rants at length in a delightful comic voice. The Lesson 1.