Teaching Gargantua and Pantagruel | 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: Pantagruel: Introduction, Dixain, Prologue and Chapters 1-9 (p. 1-74) "Gargantua and Pantagruel" by Francois Rabelais is a collection of five novels written in the sixteenth century describing the life and adventures of the giant Pantagruel. Francois Rabelais (1494 - 1553) was a major French Renaissance author, doctor and humanist and has historically been regarded as a writer of fantasy, satire, and bawdy jokes and songs. "Gargantua and...
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