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 the role of Don Quixote sailing in a bark and enact the following:
- Don Quixote climbs into the bark and sails down the river. He spots the millers and their mills.
- Don Quixote draws his sword and thrusts into the air with it.
- Don Quixote shouts, 'Release at once the captive whom you are detaining within your castle.'
- Don Quixote's boat overturns, plunging him into the river.
Activity 5: Copy and Dictate a Sentence
Complete page 31 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: Push off, or you'll be cut to pieces by the mill wheels.
Activity 6: Map the Story
- In this chapter, Don Quixote claims he and Sancho are about to pass the equinoctial line or equator.
- Trace the equator - the imaginary line that encircles the middle of the earth.
- Which continents does the equator pass through?
- Which continents doesn't the equator pass through?