Candide Lesson Plan

For this section, students should read Chapters I-VI of Candide.

Common Core Objectives

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Note that it is perfectly fine to expand any day’s work into two days depending on the characteristics of the class, particularly if the class will engage in all of the suggested classroom exercises and activities and discuss all of the thought questions.

Content Summary for Teachers

Chapter I

Candide lives in Westphalia (in present-day Germany), in the castle of the Baron of Thunder-ten-tronckh. Rumored to be the illegitimate son of the Baroness, Candide is called such because he is sweetly simple-minded. But he is hardly the only naïve person in the castle: his tutor, the...