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“A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings”. Gabriel Garcia Marquez . Do Now:. Write half a page on your culture. What are practices that your family participates in? What is important for you in your culture.
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“A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings” Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Do Now: • Write half a page on your culture. What are practices that your family participates in? What is important for you in your culture. • For example, In my culture we value family time and it is a tradition to get together on Sundays since it is a sacred day dedicated to God. On Sunday we all cook and have the day to catch up and share current events with each other. During this time we also share stories; usually my father shares folk Stories from his hometown in Mexico, Jalos.
Read the Llorona story • Read “La Llorona” to the class
Whole group share out • What have you heard about the story? • What is the story about? • What do you think we are going to read about? • What is a folkstory? • The major topics: Culture, tradition, religion • Written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Magic + Realism clip (Pan’s Labyrinth) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSICJJq86ic
GREATNESS! Believed by many to be one of the world’s greatest writers, Gabriel GarcíaMárquez is a Colombian-born author and journalist, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature and a pioneer of the Latin American “Boom.” Affectionately known as “Gabo” to millions of readers, he first won international fame with his masterpiece, One Hundred Years of Solitude, a defining classic of twentieth century literature.
Vocabulary: frontloading • Use ipads to look up words (15 min) • 5 min. check in • Display a timer on smart board • Hit 3 words and ask them what they mean
Answer questions in groups • 10 min. to discuss the questions- no writing • Choose one facilitator, • Add questions • Whole group discussion • Then independent answer these questions