Teaching One Hundred Years of Solitude | 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: Time is one of the central themes of the novel, often seeming like its own character with its own role to play. The concept of time is something that can be taken in a linear or a cyclical manner. Today's objective is to look at the progression of time as we understand it in our everyday lives and then as it seems to be...
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