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 Sancho preparing for a journey and enact the following:
- Cut the boughs of trees.
- Place the boughs on the ground to make a trail.
- Ride Rozinante down the roads back toward home.
Activity 5: Copy and Dictate a Sentence
Complete page 23 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: Remember to be as kind to the noble steed as you have been to his master.
Activity 6: Discuss the Story
- What do you think Don Quixote wrote in the letter to the Lady Dulcinea?
- Why do you think Don Quixote wishes to go mad in the forest?