Candide Lesson Plan

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 ...