Bel Ami teacher pack
Five weeks of lessons on Bel Ami for ages 14 to 18: a plan, a worksheet and the answers for each week, a final essay with a marking guide, and a reading certificate to print. Free to use in class.
Five weeks, week by week
- Week 1Chapters 1 to 4
Georges enters journalism through Forestier and Madeleine, revealing how his ambition depends on other people’s help and dishonest working methods.
Plan · worksheet · answers - Week 2Chapters 5 to 7
Georges gains money, promotion, and public praise while his affairs and fearful duel expose gaps between reputation and private conduct.
Plan · worksheet · answers - Week 3Chapters 8 to 11
Forestier’s death leads to Georges’s marriage with Madeleine, whose work advances him even as memories of her husband provoke resentment.
Plan · worksheet · answers - Week 4Chapters 12 to 14
Georges’s affair with Mme. Walter brings financial information, while his demand for Madeleine’s inheritance reveals money as a means of control.
Plan · worksheet · answers - Week 5Chapters 15 to 18
Georges secures divorce, Suzanne’s marriage, and editorial power, while coercion and violence reveal the conduct hidden beneath his public honor.
Plan · worksheet · answers
Assessment
Final essay
Three questions to choose from, 800 to 1,200 words, with a marking guide in four bands.
Quiz bank
The 29 questions and 40 flashcards online, for homework or a quick check in class. Open the quiz
Discussion
Questions for small groups, meeting by meeting. The book club kit
Reading certificate
Certificate of reading
Student's name
has read
Bel Ami
by Guy de Maupassant
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