Point of View Sub Plan for Grades 7-8 (No Prep): What the Reader Knows

In "The Fourth Board," a new student keeps a secret from the chess club, and the reader learns it long before the other characters do. Students chart what the reader knows and what two characters believe at four points in the story. Then they explain how that gap (dramatic irony) creates humor or suspense, and how the two characters' views of the new student differ, with one detail for each.

What's inside

• Sub Plan, 2 pages
• Reading, 2 pages: the story, "The Fourth Board," 13 numbered paragraphs
• Student Packet, 2 pages
• Answer Key, 1 page, with a 30-point guide
• All four documents in one ready-to-print PDF, in print order, 7 pages
• 9 files in all. Print only: no slides, no tech, no scissors.

Answer key included

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