Day 5

Candide Lesson Plan

Classroom Activities

  1. 1

    How to Cultivate Your Garden

    Kind of Activity:

    Creative Writing

    Objective:

    Students will integrate and apply the ideas and themes presented previously in the class.

    Common Core Standards:

    N/A

    Structure:

    In this exercise, students will be asked to imagine and write a self-help book chapter based on the wisdom presented at the end of Candide: "we must cultivate our own garden".

    In their chapter, they can focus on any relevant lesson – such as education, hard work, self-improvement, and so on. However, each student chapter must be properly tied into the book. There are various ways of accomplishing this: they can, for example, base their chapter around a scene from ...

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