Half the class reads Kate Chopin's The Story of an Hour, whose third-person narrator stays close to Louise Mallard, and half reads Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart, told by a first-person narrator who insists he is sane. Each student posts to their story's column on a class Padlet: a label for the narrative voice (first-person unreliable, third-person limited, omniscient and so on) and one quotation that justifies it. Students then read three posts in the other column and add a comment where they think a label or quotation does not fit. The teacher projects both columns and the class discusses which narrator the writer controls more tightly and which leaves more for the reader to judge, ending with what Chopin's narrator does and does not tell us in the final line.
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