Teaching Chronicle of a Death Foretold | 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: Students will examine methods of characterization in a text.

1) 1) In small groups, students will choose any character from the text and identify the methods of characterization the author uses to develop his or her personality and motivations. Sharing their information aloud, the class will attempt to recognize the most powerful forms of characterization used in Garcia Marquez' text.

2) As...
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