The Book of Questions, III Lesson Plan

Tracing References

Kind of Activity:

Research

Objective:

Students will be able to understand the poems more deeply by learning more about the people and places to which Neruda refers

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.7; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.8; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.9-10.4; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.9-10.5

Structure:

This set of poems refers to a significant number of proper names that students might or might not recognize: Nixon, Paul Éluard, Rubén Darío, Rimbaud, Góngora, Victor Hugo, the Queen of Sheba, Baudelaire, and Guevara.

Ask each student to pick a name from the list and to move into a group with others who picked the same name. They should spend about 15...