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 one of the townsfolk greeting your new pretend governor, Don Sancho Panza. Enact the following:
- Spot Sancho and shout your joy.
- Wave your arms over your head and yell with excitement, 'Hail to our noble governor!'
- Jump up and down and shout with elation, 'Hail to our lord, Don Sancho Panza!'
Activity 5: Copy and Dictate a Sentence
Complete page 34 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: This time they will be likelier to call me an idiot than a robber.
Activity 6: Decipher Don Quixote's Advice
Decipher the meaning of Don Quixote's advice to Sancho.
- Pride thyself more on being humble and virtuous than proud and vicious.
- Let the tears of the poor find more compassion than the testimony of the rich.
- Revile not with words him whom thou hast to punish in deed.
Activity 7: Discuss Sancho's Proverbs
Figure out the meaning of Sancho's proverbs.
- Let them come for wool and go home shorn.
- The rich man's follies pass for wise sayings.
- What a man has, so much is he worth.
- Whether the pitcher hit the stone, or the stone hit the pitcher, it is bad for the pitcher.
Activity 8: Map the Story
- The story of Don Quixote takes place in the country of Spain.
- Find the Mediterranean Sea, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Strait of Gibraltar on the map of the world.