Lesson Plans 
 

Day: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Lección 11 - Lecturas: 2-Semester System
(8 days. Each class = 50 minutes.)

Day 3

IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES
  1. Direct students’ attention to Sobre el autor. Ask them how they would classify Lorena X301: Do they see fantastic elements? Is the story typical science fiction?
  2. Have students summarize the story. Who are the characters and what is their relationship? How have advances in technology affected human life and society? (Refer to Análisis literario.) As students were reading, what were their predictions about what was going to happen and why?
  3. Work through Después de leer activities 1 and 2 for Lorena X301 with the class. Follow the suggestion in the anno in the IAE to ask students whether there could be such a thing as an autonomous automaton.
  4. Put students in pairs for Después de leer activities 3 and 4 for Lorena X301. Ask each pair to share their list for activity 3 and their opinions from activity 4 with the class.
  5. Present the Videoteca section. Model the Spanish words and expressions in Vocabulario. Play the video without sound. Ask students how they think the video relates to the lesson theme.
ASSIGNMENT
  1. Study the Videoteca Vocabulario.
  2. Prepare Antes de ver el corto for oral work during the next class.
  3. Read Atando cabos and prepare steps 1–3 in writing for the next class.
  4. Finish preparing the Literatura activity from the VENTANAS web site to be submitted electronically before the next class.