Lesson Plans 
 

Day: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

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

Day 2

IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES
  1. Direct students’ attention to Sobre el autor. Ask them how the demystification of cultural icons is carried out in El avaro.
  2. Work through Después de leer activities 1 and 2 for El avaro with the class. Follow the anno in the IAE to ask students how the main character became obsessed with money. Put students in pairs for Después de leer activity 3.
  3. Present the vocabulary list for La prodigiosa tarde de Baltazar, modeling the Spanish words and expressions. Put students in pairs to discuss the Conexión personal questions for La prodigiosa tarde de Baltazar. Ask pairs to summarize their discussions for the class.
  4. Direct students’ attention to Sobre el autor. Ask students what they know about Gabriel García Márquez and magic realism.
  5. Have students read the first 30 lines of the story aloud. Ask them to describe the story’s setting and the personality of Baltazar and Úrsula. Ask them what they think the cage might symbolize (Análisis literario).
  6. Collect and correct the paragraphs students wrote for Después de leer activity 4 for El avaro.
ASSIGNMENT
  1. Study the Vocabulario for La prodigiosa tarde de Baltazar.
  2. Read Antes de leer and La prodigiosa tarde de Baltazar.
  3. Prepare the Después de leer activities for La prodigiosa tarde de Baltazar for the next class.
  4. Continue preparing the Literatura activity from the VENTANAS web site to be submitted electronically before class on Day 4.