Lesson Plans 
 

Day: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Lección 7 - Lecturas: 2-Semester System
(8 days. Each class = 50 minutes.)

Day 1

IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES
  1. Ask for volunteers to read aloud their paragraphs explaining their feelings about/opinions on either the quote or the painting on the Literatura section opener for Lección 7. Ask students to tell you about Diego Rivera and Pablo Picasso. Use the suggestions found in Additional Teaching Suggestions for Lecturas in the Instructor’s Resource Manual to direct/expand the discussion. Ask students how the quote and picture tie into the lesson theme, La economía y el trabajo.
  2. Present the vocabulary list for El avaro, modeling the Spanish words and expressions.
  3. Have students discuss the Conexión personal questions in Antes de leer in pairs. Ask pairs to summarize their discussions for the class. Encourage students to use the vocabulary just presented.
  4. Read Contexto cultural with the class. Follow the suggestion in the anno in the IAE to elicit students’ thoughts on why the Incas and the conquistadors had such differing views on gold.
  5. Present Análisis literario and Estrategia de lectura.
ASSIGNMENT
  1. Study the Vocabulario for El avaro.
  2. Read El avaro.
  3. Prepare the Después de leer activities for El avaro for the next class. Do activity 4 in writing.
  4. Go to the VENTANAS web site and prepare the Literatura activity to be submitted electronically before class on Day 4.