Day 2

The Book of Questions, III Lesson Plan

Classroom Activities

  1. 1

    Tracing References

    Kind of Activity:

    Research

    Objective:

    Students will be able to understand the poems more deeply by learning more about the people and places to which Neruda refers

    Common Core Standards:

    CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.7; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.8; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.9-10.4; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.9-10.5

    Structure:

    This set of poems refers to a significant number of proper names that students might or might not recognize: Nixon, Paul Éluard, Rubén Darío, Rimbaud, Góngora, Victor Hugo, the Queen of Sheba, Baudelaire, and Guevara.

    Ask each student to pick a name from the list and to move into a group with others who picked the same name. They should spend about 15...

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