Activity 1: Recite the Book Information
- Recite the name of the author, the title of the book, and the title of the chapter.
Activity 2: Narrate the Story
- Narrate the events aloud in your own words.
Activity 3: Study the Story Pictures
- Study the story pictures and describe how they relate to the story.
Activity 4: Copy and Dictate a Sentence
Complete page 21 in 'Third Grade Prose Copywork and Dictation.'
- Step 1: Students copy the script sentence.
- Step 2: Instructors say the sentence aloud, and children write it.
- Sentence: They have broken the law and been caught at it.
Activity 5: Discuss Don Quixote's Proverb
- Recite Don Quixote's proverb, 'One might as well throw water into the sea as do a kindness to clowns.'
- What does this saying mean?
- What is Don Quixote specifically trying to tell Sancho?
Activity 6: Discuss the Story
- Explain whether you think Don Quixote and Sancho should have released the prisoners?
- Do you think Don Quixote learned his lesson after his actions backfired?
- Do you think Sancho learned his lesson after being beaten up yet again?