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Lesson 1 (from Part I (Pages 1 - 60))
Objective
The objective of this lesson is for students to analyze Tomas's feelings upon returning to Argentina after ten years in exile in Part I. Officially, Tomas has been "disappeared" from Argentina since 1976, when he fled the military junta regime following the coup in March of that year. Tomas went to Rome, and then America, where, under an assumed name, he made a different life for himself. Tomas remains haunted by his past and the people he left behind, though, and he is shocked to find himself face-to-face with several intimate contacts he had taken for dead.
Lesson
Class Discussion: Why does Tomas leave Argentina in 1976, and under what circumstances? Why does he return in Part I, ten years later? Who are some of the first people he meets? What are Tomas's range of feelings upon his first visit back to the country of his birth in...
Aligned to the following Common Core Standards:
- ELA-Reading: Literature RL.9-10.1, 9-10.3, 9-10.10, 11-12.1, 11-12.10
- ELA-Writing W.9-10.5, 9-10.9, 11-12.5, 11-12.9
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