Lesson Plans 
 

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

Lección 11 - Lecturas: Quarter System
(12 days. Each class = 50 minutes.)

Day 9

IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES
  1. Ask students whether they think gene research played a role in the development of Lorena X301. Was the use of the research positive or negative?
  2. Work through Después de leer activities 1 and 2 for Pioneros en busca de un gen with the class. Put students in pairs to discuss activity 3; have each pair present its conclusions to the class. Follow the suggestions in the annos in the IAE to expand the discussion.
  3. Ask for volunteers to read aloud their paragraphs on cloning, which they wrote for Después de leer activity 4 for Pioneros en busca de un gen.
  4. Show the video Lluvia again. Ask students whether they think that the emotions portrayed in the video will be the same in 100 or 200 years. Do humans’ basic emotions and needs change along with scientific advances?
  5. Collect and correct the paragraphs students wrote for Después de leer activity 4 for Pioneros en busca de un gen.
ASSIGNMENT
  1. Finalize the dialogs for Videoteca Después de ver el corto activity 6. Be prepared to present them to the class.
  2. Continue preparing the Cultura activity from the VENTANAS web site to be submitted electronically before class on Day 12.