Lesson Plan

HANDS-ON ACTIVITY/LESSON PLAN

Date: March 25, 2007

Lesson: One Hundred Years of Solitude

Duration: 3 days to complete assignment

Purpose: To teach students how to point out important scenes and relate them to an important theme in the story.

Materials Needed:One Hundred Years of Solitude
Metal coat hangers
Index Cards
Crayons/Markers/Color Pencils
String

Objectives

• Students will be able to identify important themes and relate them to scenes.
• Students will enhance their writing skills by writing a paragraph on each theme and each scene.

Procedures

• Point out seven themes in the story.
• Point out seven scenes in the story that relate to the seven themes that were picked.
• Draw each scene on an index card and on the backside label the theme the scene represents and write a paragraph explaining how the scene represents that theme.
• Hang each index card from the hanger with string.

Assessment
Fourteen points for theme and explanationTen points for creativity/neatness