Lección 11:
3-Quarter System (14 days, including 1 for testing. Each class = 50 minutes.)
Day
8
IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES
Put students in groups of three to read and peer review each other’s descriptions of what the world will be like in 50 years. Then have students read their descriptions to the class. Encourage students to ask questions about and to discuss each description.
Present the painting and quote on the Lecturas section opener. Present the vocabulary list for Primer encuentro, modeling the Spanish words and expressions.
Have students work in small groups to discuss the Conexiónpersonal questions and complete the chart in Antes de leer. Ask students to consider why extraterrestrials are usually depicted as unsightly. Ask each group to summarize their discussion for the class. Encourage students to use the vocabulary just presented.
Read Contexto cultural with the class.
Present Análisis literario and Estrategia de lectura.
Collect and correct the narrations about extraterrestrial encounters that students wrote for A escribir.
ASSIGNMENT
Study the Vocabulario for Primer encuentro.
Read Primer encuentro.
Decide whether the ending was a surprise or not. List the details that made the surprise ending logical and a consistent outcome (Análisis literario) or list the details and conventions that helped you predict the ending (Estrategia de lectura).
Prepare the Después de leer activities for Primer encuentro for the next class.
Go to the ENFOQUES web site and prepare the Lecturasactivity to be submitted electronically before class on Day 12.
ADDITIONAL PRACTICE OPTIONS
Prepare the Escritura section on the ENFOQUES CD-ROM.
