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This Narrative Voice in Moby Dick lesson plan also includes:
- Unit Overview: Melville’s Moby Dick: Shifts in Narrative Voice and Literary Genres (.html)
- Call Him Ishmael, and What Else? (.pdf)
- Call Him Ishmael, and What Else? - Teacher Version (.pdf)
- Ishmael and the Fates (.pdf)
- Ishmael and the Fates - Teacher Version (.pdf)
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Call him a reliable narrator! Ishmael is the focus of a lesson that asks readers to analyze the complex character of Herman Melville's narrator as he is introduced in the first chapter of Moby Dick.
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- Have groups research the three fates: Clotho, spinner; Lachesis, allotter; and Atropos, inflexible
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- The first in a three-lesson unit on Herman Melville's Moby Dick
- Requires copies of two worksheets
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- Includes a teacher version of the two worksheets
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