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
Play Don Quixote and the Knight of the Mirrors engaging in a jousting match. The two people should stand far apart, pretending to hold lances and ride horses toward one another. Enact the following is a safe, open space:
- Don Quixote and the Knight of the Mirrors spur their horses to charge at each other.
- Don Quixote knocks the lance from the hand of the Knight of the Mirrors.
- Don Quixote knocks the Knight of the Mirrors off his horse.
- Don Quixote hurries to the side of the Knight of the Mirrors and unlaces his helmet to give him air.
- Don Quixote discovers the Knight is his friend, Samson Carrasco.
Activity 5: Copy and Dictate a Sentence
Complete page 29 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: Be not deceived by appearances, Sancho.
Activity 6: Discuss Sancho's Proverbs
Figure out the meaning of Sancho's proverbs.
- Every man for himself.
- Many come for wool and go home shorn.
- A baited cat may prove as fierce as a lion.