Lesson Plans 
 

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Lección 2 - Lecturas: Quarter System
(12 days. Each class = 50 minutes.)

Day 2

IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES
  1. Direct students’ attention to Sobre el autor (p. 30). Ask them how they think Benedetti’s life experience is reflected in Idilio.
  2. Have students summarize the story after lines 5, 10, 15, and 24 (pp. 30–31).
  3. Ask students to discuss what they think is the moral lesson of the story (Análisis literario, p. 29) and Benedetti’s purpose in writing the story (Estrategia de lectura, p. 29).
  4. Put students in pairs and have them find all the reflexive and direct object pronouns in Idilio (pp. 30–31), as suggested in the annotation in the IAE, p. 30.
  5. Work through Después de leer activities 1 and 2 for Idilio (p. 32) with the class.
ASSIGNMENT
  1. Prepare Después de leer activities 3 and 4 for Idilio (p. 32) for the next class. Write a paragraph for activity 4.
  2. Continue preparing the Literatura activity from the VENTANAS web site to be submitted electronically before class on Day 6.