Lesson Plans 
 

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Lección 3 - Lecturas: Quarter System
(12 days. Each class = 50 minutes.)

Day 8

IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES
  1. Ask students to tell you about Jorge Ramos’s life, both personal and professional.
  2. Work through Después de leer activities 1 and 2 for Perfil: Jorge Ramos (p. 66) with the class.
  3. Follow the suggestion in the anno (IAE, p. 66) to have students discuss censorship in the media and to debate the issue of censorship versus freedom of speech.
  4. Have students do Después de leer activity 3 (p. 66) in groups of four.
  5. Begin the Antes de leer section for De salsas, siestas y otros bonitos tópicos (p. 67). Present the vocabulary list, modeling the Spanish words and expressions, and do the Conexión personal questions (p. 67) with the class. Have students read the Contexto cultural (p. 67); go over the questions with the class.
ASSIGNMENT
  1. Study the Vocabulario for De salsas, siestas y otros bonitos tópicos (p. 67).
  2. Read De salsas, siestas y otros bonitos tópicos (pp. 68–69) and prepare the Después de leer activities (p. 70) for the next class.
  3. Continue preparing the Cultura activity from the VENTANAS web site to be submitted electronically before class on Day 12.