Teacher Guide

Germinal Lesson Plan

Relationship to Other Books

Germinal is but one novel (the 13th) in Zola's 21-volume Rougon-Macquart sequence, which details the generational lives of two French families.

Works that support workers' rights, or those with a socialist bent, are also relevant. Examples include I Will Marry When I Want by Ngugi wa Mirii and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Waiting for Lefty by Clifford Odets, and The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck.

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