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 Don Quixote meeting the Duke and Duchess and enact the following:
- Don Quixote tries to dismount and falls off Rozinante.
- Don Quixote salutes the duchess.
- Don Quixote pays many a pretty compliment to the duchess.
Activity 5: Copy and Dictate a Sentence
Complete page 32 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: We shall have great sport with this rare couple.
Activity 6: Discuss the Story
- The Duke and Duchess are bored with life and want to play tricks on Don Quixote and Sancho.
- The Duke and Duchess' mocking is 'done kindly so as to hurt no one's feelings.'
- However, Don Quixote and Sancho are not in on the joke.
- Describe whether you think the trickery of the Duke and Duchess is right or wrong.