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 Picture
- Study the story picture and describe how it relates to the story.
Activity 4: Act Out a Passage from the Chapter
Play Don Quixote and the Knight of the White Moon engaging in a jousting match. The two people should stand far apart, pretending to ride horses toward one another while holding lances. Enact the following is a safe, open space:
- Don Quixote and the Knight of the White Moon spur their horses into action.
- The Knight of the White Moon should travel much faster than Don Quixote.
- The Knight of the White Moon vanquishes Don Quixote and Rozinante, who fall to the ground.
- Still on the ground, Don Quixote says, 'I maintain that Dulcinea del Toboso is the most beautiful lady in the world.'
Activity 5: Copy and Dictate a Sentence
Complete page 36 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: Press on thy spear, and rid me of life.
Activity 6: Discuss the Story
- The story reveals that the Knight of the White Moon is Samson Carrasco, trying to get Don Quixote home.
- Do you think Samson Carrasco's trick is right and honorable or wrong and deceitful? Explain why.
- Do you believe Don Quixote will honor his promise to return home?
Activity 7: Map the Story
- The story of Don Quixote takes place in the country of Spain.
- Locate Spain on the map of the world.
- Find the continent across the Strait of Gibraltar from Spain and recite its name.