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 acting out the fantastical stories you read in books. Enact the following:
- Draw a sword and slash it about in a most fearful manner.
- Walk about shouting that you have defeated four giants as tall as church steeples.
Activity 5: Copy and Dictate a Sentence
Complete page 10 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: Those books have unsettled his mind.
Activity 6: Discuss the Story
- Discuss whether you think:
- Don Quixote is crazy, a liar, or perhaps over-imaginative.
- Don Quixote's servants and neighbors should burn his books to save him from his madness.