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 clown carrying the stick with the three bladders, and enact the following:
- Shake your bladder stick at Rozinante.
- Run and leap upon the back of Dapple.
- Fall when Dapple throws you off.
Activity 5: Copy and Dictate a Sentence
Complete page 28 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: The evil one has run away with my dear Dapple.
Activity 6: Map the Story
- The story of Don Quixote takes place in the country of Spain.
- Locate Spain on the map of Europe.
- Find the country across the Strait of Gibraltar from Spain and recite its name.