Teaching Ficciones | 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: Part One, The Garden of Forking Paths, Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius "Ficciones" is a collection of short stories by Argentinean author Jorge Luis Borges. Borges' stores are imaginative and often puzzling. He often expresses his philosophical themes through the use of narrative storytelling. The objective of this lesson is to discuss the narrative mode from which many of Borges' stories are written, and examine...
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