Lesson Plans 
 

Day: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Lección 4 - Lecturas: Quarter System
(12 days. Each class = 50 minutes.)

Day 2

IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES
  1. Direct students’ attention to Sobre el autor. Ask them how El viaje illustrates the quality of intensity that Cristina Fernández Cubas mentions.
  2. Work through Después de leer activities 1 and 2 for El viaje with the class.
  3. Have students summarize the story in one sentence, as suggested in the anno in the IAE (p. 80).
  4. Ask students to discuss the narrator’s purpose in recording this anecdote (Análisis literario). What inferences did they make as they read the story and thought about the purpose (Estrategia de lectura)?
  5. Follow the anno in the IAE (p. 80) to have students write a paragraph describing the nun’s emotions when she saw the convent from outside. Ask students to read their paragraphs aloud, dramatically.
ASSIGNMENT
  1. Prepare Después de leer activities 3 and 4 for El viaje 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.