Lesson Plans 
 

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

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

Day 4

IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES
  1. Warm up the class by asking question using the vocabulary presented on p. 133 and p. 137.
  2. Discuss the Conexión personal questions for El derecho al delirio with the class.
  3. Follow the suggestion in the anno in the IAE to discuss the “missing people” issue in Latin America and elsewhere. Direct students’ attention to the photograph and ask what they know about Pinochet.
  4. Direct students’ attention to Sobre el autor and ask them how the political realities of Latin America have affected Galeano.
  5. Have students read aloud the first few paragraphs of El derecho al delirio. Stop them after each of the first four paragraphs and ask them to summarize each paragraph. As students begin to read the fifth paragraph, remind them to pay attention to cataloguing (Análisis literario) and to what Galeano means by delirio.
ASSIGNMENT
  1. Read El derecho al delirio.
  2. Decide why Galeano chose to catalog his ideas (Análisis literario) and what his purpose was in writing the essay (Estrategia de lectura).
  3. Prepare Después de leer activities 1, 2, and 3 for El derecho al delirio for the next class.
  4. Continue preparing the Literatura activity from the VENTANAS web site to be submitted electronically before class on Day 6.