Teaching Candide | 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: Chapter 1 Voltaire satirizes many themes throughout the text, including class, religion, philosophy, social mores and gender issues. The objective of this lesson is for students to be able to identify the components of satire and to recognize examples of satire in the first chapter.

1) 1. SATIRE: Read aloud the opening paragraphs of "Candide." Have students note instances where they find the text...
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