Teaching Flaubert's Parrot | 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, Flaubert's Parrot The objective of this lesson is for the student to learn how the author's choice of the first-person narrative in "Flaubert's Parrot" is integral to the story.

1) 1) Ask students to write, using first person, a short paragraph describing their activities on the previous day. Then ask them to rewrite the paragraph using third person. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of writing...
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