Fiction Short Story "Moon Face" Jack London Unreliable Narrator Inference Reading Skills Analysis

This lesson uses Jack London’s brilliant story “Moon Face” which would sit really well alongside Poe’s “The Tell Tale Heart”. Planned for a year 9 class as part of a unit on short stories but has potential to be used elsewhere at KS3. The aim of the lesson is to use inference to explore the idea of an unreliable narrator. The lesson takes the students through discussion of the effect of a simile, of personification and begins to explore the idea of the narrator’s hypocrisy. After a short time in paired discussion, students are then asked to respond to this question - In ‘Moon Face’, what do we understand about London’s unreliable narrator?