Teaching Collected Stories | 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: The Third Resignation. Gabriel García Márquez is one of the most familiar writers of magic realism, a primarily Latin American genre in which strange or fantastic occurrences are described as though they were quite ordinary, well within the realm of normalcy. This style of writing is present in "The Third Resignation" in many ways. The objective of this lesson is to examine what you have read...
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