Teaching Boule de Suif | Daily Lessons

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: "Boule de Suif" in occupied France during the Franco-Prussian war. The purpose of Lesson 1 is to examine the setting of "Boule de Suif."

1) 1) Class Activity: Research the Franco-Prussian war. What were the causes and what was its outcome? Maupassant set "Boule de Suif" in 1871 in the cities of Rouen and Totes in occupied France in order to portray the many facets of...
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