Chronicle of a Death Foretold Lesson Plan

What do we learn about the story and how it's going to be told from the first paragraph?

The opening sentence makes it clear that the protagonist is going to be killed: "On the day they were going to kill him, Santiago Nasar got up at five-thirty in the morning." The narrator goes on to discuss Santiago's dream about walking through a timber forest and that he felt "spattered with bird shit" when he woke up. We learn that Santiago's mother has a reputation for accurately interpreting dreams, but that she misinterpreted her son's dream by focusing on the birds and not the trees. This is relayed causally and matter-of-factly, indicating that extrasensory knowledge is...