Black Beauty Lesson Plan

Black Beauty is written in whose perspective? How long did it take you to realize this? What gave it away? Have you read other similar novels? How does this perspective shape your experience of the narrative?

Black Beauty is written from the perspective of a horse. The full title of the novel is Black Beauty: His Grooms and Companions. The Autobiography of a Horse. Reading the title in full would help give the students a big hint as to whose perspective the novel is written in. However, nowadays the novel is commonly known by its shortened version of Black Beauty. Even without the full title, it shouldn't take the students too long to realize the novel is written from...