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: Act Out a Passage from the Chapter
Pretend you are the wiliest of the thieves, Gines de Passamonte, and enact the following:
- Skulk into the clearing where Don Quixote and Sancho are sleeping.
- Open your jackknife to cut down four saplings.
- Brace Dapple's saddle with the saplings.
- Lead Dapple out from under Sancho.
Activity 5: Copy and Dictate a Sentence
Complete page 22 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: Where is thy donkey, friend Sancho?
Activity 6: Discuss the Story
- Gines de Passamonte tells himself he does not wish to wake Sancho out of kindness.
- Do you think he is truly being kind or merely practical?
Activity 7: Map the Story
- The story of Don Quixote takes place in the country of Spain.
- Locate Spain on the map of Europe.
- Find the ocean which surrounds Spain to the north and west and recite its name.