1. How can stories from the past influence our imagination?
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How can stories from the past influence our imagination?
What are some of the things you associate with feudal life?
Have you-or has someone you know-ever tried to build a fortress of sand, snow, toys or other materials? What was it like?
What is your favorite legendary story of chivalry?

2. Get Ready to Read
Amazing Words
Adventurer – someone who seeks out adventures or challenges
To be a knight, you had to be an adventurer, willing to explore and to risk great danger.
Why might an adventurer make a good main character in a story? What characteristics do you think a typical adventurer has?
Diversion – a distraction from daily life and its responsibilities
Pretending to be a knight was more than a diversion for Senor Quexada.
What kinds of diversions do people use today to relax and have fun?

3. Word Analysis Greek and Latin Roots
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Word Analysis
Greek and Latin Roots
Root
Root Meaning
Word
Word Meaning
Ques
To ask or to inquire
Request
Cogn
To know
Recognize
Vict
To conquer
Victory

4. Literary Terms Idioms and Jargon
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Literary Terms
Idioms and Jargon
Idioms are phrases or expressions whose meanings cannot be understood from the ordinary meaning of the word
What does “hold your tongue” mean?
Jargon is language of a special group or profession
What does crowd the plate mean in baseball?
Read Knights of Old on page 333.
Notice the jargon: quests, squire, tournament
Look at the idiom: squared off. What does that mean?
What other idioms or jargon do you know?

5. Story Structure Character and Plot
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Story Structure
Character and Plot
What does plot mean?
What is a character?
Reread Gina’s Adventures in Italy.
What is the plot?
Who are the characters?

6. Vocabulary Strategy for Prefixes re- and mis-
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Vocabulary Strategy for Prefixes re- and mis-
What does re- mean?
What does mis- mean?
Misfortune followed him wherever he went.
What does misfortune mean?
She renewed her determination to win the game.
What does renewed mean?

7. Read and Comprehend
Fluency Practice

8. What legendary story about knights has influenced your imagination?
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What are your favorite stories from the past? What do you like best about these stories?
What legendary story about knights has influenced your imagination?
Classic historical fiction is fiction that takes place in the past. It is a combination of imagination and fact.
In historical fiction, fictional characters are placed in a factually historical setting to act out a fictional plot.

9. As you read pages 336-337, think about:
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As you read pages , think about:
Reread the opening paragraph on page What is the author’s purpose in this particular paragraph?
What questions are raised in your mind when you read the narrator’s warning on page 337: Beware! Those tales can drive you mad…?
Think of another time in history in which you would like to have lived. Explain the advantages of living in the historical period you chose.
How does the illustrator depict Senor Quexada’s woeful expression?

10. As you read pages 338-339, think about:
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As you read pages , think about:
Compare Don Quixote’s style of speaking with Sancho’s style of speaking.
What is comical about the promise Don Quixote makes to Sancho Panza?
What three things does Don Quixote rename? Why do you think he renames them?
The narrator tells readers that Sancho was not as crackbrained as Don Quixote. The author is using an idiom or figure of speech. What does the idiom mean and what does it suggest about Don Quixote?

11. As you read pages 340-341, think about:
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As you read pages , think about:
Why does the author tell readers that Don Quixote and Sancho set off on a moonless night?
Compare and contrast the reaction of Don Quixote and Sancho to the windmills.
Don Quixote sees windmills in the distance and believes they are giants . Think of a time when you saw something or someone from a distance that you thought was something or someone else. What happened?

12. Don Quixote hacked at the ropes with renewed vigor.
Language Arts
Modifiers
Don Quixote hacked at the ropes with renewed vigor.
“At the ropes”, and “with renewed vigor” are prepositional phrases
They modify hacked (tell where and how he hacked)
Find the modifiers in the following sentences:
Senor Quexada buried himself in these books.
He found a rusty suit of armor.

13. Sort your words into categories: -ary -ery -ory
Language Arts
Spelling Practice
Sort your words into categories:
-ary -ery -ory

14. Create a chart to help get started on your parody
Language Arts
Writing a Parody
Create a chart to help get started on your parody
Don Quixote
My Parody
Senor Quexada
Principal Keough
Saving the country from giants
Save school from wild buffalo
Tales from the past driving him mad
Movie westerns drive him mad
Buries himself in books
Sits in dark watching old westerns
Calls himself Don Quixote
Calls himself Don Coyote
Tale
My Parody
Main Character
Conflict
How conflict is solved
Setting