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 riding happily down the road.
- Enact catching sight of the country man and his servant.
- Say the line, 'Hold! Hold! It is an unmanly act to strike a person who cannot strike back.'
Activity 5: Copy and Dictate a Sentence
Complete page 8 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: You have no right to beat him, when you know he cannot beat you.
Activity 6: Sketch a Wrong
Complete page 9 in 'Third Grade Prose Copywork and Dictation.'
- In the story, a stout farmer mistreats a servant boy.
- Sketch some wrong that you have witnessed and tell the accompanying story.
Activity 7: Map the Story
- The story of Don Quixote takes place in the country of Spain.
- Use your finger to trace the border of Spain on the map of Europe.