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 rescuing Dapple from Gines de Passamonte and enact the following:
- Spot Gines de Passamonte riding Dapple.
- Chase Gines and rescue Dapple.
- Pet and kiss Dapple, saying, 'My treasure, my dear Dapple!'
Activity 5: Copy and Dictate a Sentence
Complete page 24 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: Get off from the back of my dear beast.
Activity 6: Discuss Don Quixote's Kindness
- Why do you think Don Quixote still pledges three donkeys to Sancho, despite the return of Dapple?
- If you were Don Quixote, would you still give Sancho the three donkeys?
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 sea which borders Spain to the south and the east and recite its name.