LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE Unit Bundle | Novel Study for Women's History Month

This bundle for Laura Esquivel's Magical Realism fiction novel includes assessments, daily bell ringers, and introductory mini-lesson to explore the elements of this high school ELA novel.

INTRODUCTORY LESSON WITH GUIDED WORKSHEETS

DAILY BELL RINGERS TO ASSESS COMPREHENSION

SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT WITH RUBRIC AND EXEMPLARS

This bundle includes the following resources:

Magical Realism Mini-Lesson: Students love Magical Realism for it's captivating and entertaining qualities. In this mini-lesson, students will engage with various paintings in order to introduce the genre of Magical Realism. These paintings can be found in the Magical Realism Mini-Lesson file for PowerPoint® or Google Slides, which includes separate instructions to ensure your lesson is delivered with clarity and ease. Use the OPTIC Strategy Handout provided with this resource to explore the qualities of these paintings.

Daily Bell Ringers: Whether you assign each chapter as reading homework to your students, or read together as a class, you can count on these Daily Bell Ringers to ensure that students are reading attentively and taking note of important characters and events! The answers for these Bell Ringers cannot be found in online summaries and require active engagement with the text, so your students will be rewarded for their attentive close reading and disciplined study habits!

Literary Criticism Assessment with Rubric: Laura Esquivel's magical novel Like Water For Chocolate is a great novel to adopt multiple lenses while reading.  From historical references to the Mexican Revolution and Native American appropriation, to feminist allusions to Virginia Woolf's "A Room of One's Own," to cultural commentary on the roles of the family - this novel is a treasure chest of metaphoric references!

Further instructions can be found within each resource file.

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