Jorge Borges: Short Stories Lesson Plan

Compelling Connections

Kind of Activity:

Individual Writing

Objective:

Students will demonstrate their understanding of the system of thought set forth in the story. Student will apply this understanding to their knowledge of outside literature.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.9; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.1

Structure:

Following the Tlönian method of literary analysis, ask students: what is the most astonishing or interesting association you can imagine? For this activity, students will pretend they are a Tlönian literary critic: they will choose two books they have read that were written by different authors, and argue that they were written by the same...