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 7

IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES
  1. Present the painting and quote on the Cultura section opener. Use the suggestions found in Additional Teaching Suggestions for Lecturas in the Instructor’s Resource Manual. Ask students to read aloud their paragraphs describing the type of trip evoked by the painting. Ask students how such a trip would be enriching, as mentioned in the quote.
  2. Present the vocabulary list, modeling the Spanish words and expressions.
  3. Present the profile on Catalina de Erauso and do the Conexión personal questions in Antes de leer with the class.
  4. Read Contexto cultural with the class. Describe the work and lives of the three nuns mentioned. Follow the suggestion in the anno in the IAE to have students discuss why women today become nuns and how and why those reasons differ from the reasons women had in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
  5. Collect and correct the travel advice students wrote for Atando cabos step 2.
ASSIGNMENT
  1. Study the Vocabulario for Perfil: Catalina de Erauso.
  2. Read Perfil: Catalina de Erauso and prepare the Después de leer activities for the next class.
  3. Go to the VENTANAS web site and prepare the Cultura activity to be submitted electronically before class on Day 12.