Ficciones Activities & Classroom Projects

Fun Classroom Activities

The 20 enjoyable, interactive classroom activities that are included will help your students understand the text in amusing ways. Fun Classroom Activities include group projects, games, critical thinking activities, brainstorming sessions, writing poems, drawing or sketching, and more that will allow your students to interact with each other, be creative, and ultimately grasp key concepts from the text by "doing" rather than simply studying.

1. Point of View

Borges writes using different points of view, and even changes points of view during some stories to allow the reader access to different minds. Create a short story that uses three points of view within the same narrative.

2. Editing the Encylopedia

The narrator of "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" is fearful that the strange objects of Tlon will soon overtake his world. Create an entry for "A First Encyclopaedia of Tlon. Volume XI. Hlaer to Jangr."

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