Daily Lessons for Teaching The Aguero Sisters

Daily Lessons

This section contains 30 daily lessons. Each one has a specific objective and offers at least three (often more) ways to teach that objective. Lessons include classroom discussions, group and partner activities, in-class handouts, individual writing assignments, at least one homework assignment, class participation exercises and other ways to teach students about the text in a classroom setting. Use some or all of the suggestions provided to work with your students in the classroom and help them understand the text.

Lesson 1

Objective: Prologue THE KILLING - In this chapter, the readers witness Ignacio Aguero murder his wife, Blanca. This singular event provides the main thrust of the rest of the novel. The objective of this lesson is for students to explore the relationship between Ignacio and Blanca, and to hypothesize why Ignacio might have murdered his wife.

1) 1.) As a class, compare/contrast the feelings Blanca had about their...
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