Lesson Plans 
 

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Lección 6 - Lecturas: Quarter System
(12 days. Each class = 50 minutes.)

Day 1

IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES
  1. Ask for volunteers to read aloud their paragraphs explaining how the quote on the Literatura section opener for Lección 6 can be applied to the picture. Ask students to tell you about Wifredo Lam. Use the suggestions found in Additional Teaching Suggestions for Lecturas in the Instructor’s Resource Manual to direct/expand the discussion. Ask students how the quote and picture tie into the lesson theme, La naturaleza.
  2. Present the vocabulary list, modeling the Spanish words and expressions.
  3. Have students fill in the chart for Conexión personal in Antes de leer. Follow the suggestion in the anno in the IAE to have the class guess each other’s “pleasant place.” Encourage students to use the vocabulary just presented. Have students read the Contexto cultural.
  4. Present Análisis literario and Estrategia de lectura.
ASSIGNMENT
  1. Study the Vocabulario for El viaje definitivo.
  2. Read El viaje definitivo.
  3. Identify the assonant rhymes in the poem (Análisis literario).
  4. Prepare Después de leer activities 1, 2, and 3 for El viaje definitivo for the next class.
  5. Go to the VENTANAS web site and prepare the Literatura activity to be submitted electronically before class on Day 6.