Lesson Plans 
 

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

Lección 5 - Lecturas: Quarter System
(12 days. Each class = 50 minutes.)

Day 8

IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES
  1. Ask students to tell you about Carlos J. Finlay’s life.
  2. Ask students what role disease plays in our lives. Encourage them to use the vocabulary for the reading. Have them discuss the Conexión personal question in Antes de leer in pairs.
  3. Work through Después de leer activities 1 and 2 for Perfil: El doctor Carlos J. Finlay with the class. Have students do Después de leer activity 3 in pairs.
  4. Begin the Antes de leer section for La siesta. Present the vocabulary list, modeling the Spanish words and expressions, and do the Conexión personal questions with the class. Have students read the Contexto cultural. Follow the suggestion in the anno in the IAE to elicit students’ opinions of the siesta.
ASSIGNMENT
  1. Study the Vocabulario for La siesta.
  2. Read La siesta and prepare the Después de leer activities for the next class. Do activity 4 in writing.
  3. Continue preparing the Cultura activity from the VENTANAS web site to be submitted electronically before class on Day 12.