Teaching Le Spleen de Paris | 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: In "To Arsène Houssaye", Baudelaire explains that this collection of poems is without heads or tails. He says that the poems have great value, but, at the same time, he criticizes his own work. The objective of this lesson is to examine Baudelaire's letter to his editor in terms of contradictions.

1) 1) Think-Pair-Share - Students will respond to the following: What is a contradiction? Can...
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