Daily Lessons for Teaching Pedro Paramo

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: Pedro Páramo, pages 1 - 11 Foreshadowing is used throughout the novel and clues are given to indicate not just what will happen, but what has already happened. Foreshadowing can help readers follow along with a disjointed timeline. The objective of this lesson is for students to define foreshadowing and identify locations of foreshadowing in the text.

1) 1. FORESHADOWING DISCUSSION: Ask students to define...
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