HANDS-ON ACTIVITY/LESSON PLAN

Date: March 25, 2007
Lesson: One Hundred Years of Solitude
Duration: 3 days to complete assignment
Purpose: To teach students how to point out important scenes and relate them to an important theme in the story.

Materials Needed:
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Metal coat hangers
Index Cards
Crayons/Markers/Color Pencils
String
Objectives
Students will be able to identify important themes and relate them to scenes.
Students will enhance their writing skills by writing a paragraph on each theme and each scene.
Procedures
Point out seven themes in the story.
Point out seven scenes in the story that relate to the seven themes that were picked.
Draw each scene on an index card and on the backside label the theme the scene represents and write a paragraph explaining how the scene represents that theme.
Hang each index card from the hanger with string.
Assessment
Fourteen points for theme and explanation
Ten points for creativity/neatness


Rubric


Did student relate and explain theme with scene properly?

14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 5 5 4 3 2

1

Did student show creativity/neatness?

10 9 8 7 6 5
4 3 2 1


Total_______/ 24