The Woman Who Had Two Navels Lesson Plan

Changing Your Fate

Kind of Activity:

Creative Writing

Objective:

Students will creatively engage with the story.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.1, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.2, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.6, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.7, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.10, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.11-12.1, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.11-12.4

Structure:

In "Guardia de Honor," Joaquin uses magical realism to tell a time-travel story, in which characters may or may not change their fate. The story is unclear about how much agency the characters have, but one cannot help but imagine how things would have changed.

To explore those possibilities, students will write a...