Book Detail
Don Quixote and the Windmills |
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Publication Information |
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| Author: Kimmel, Eric | Illustrator: Fisher, Leonard Everett |
| Title: Don Quixote and the Windmills | Date: 2004 |
| Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux | City: New York |
| ISBN, paperback: 0-374-31825-5 | ISBN, hardback: |
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| ABE/ABLE: Yes | ESOL: |
| Family: | Young Adult: |
| Picture: Yes | |
General Information: |
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| Book Type(s): legends, tales, and myths, fiction | |
HSE Descriptor(s): language arts - reading |
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Summary: |
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| This retelling of the famous Spanish novel by Cervantes recounts Don Quixote's first adventure as a knight. An Author's Note contributes historical information about Cervantes. | |
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| Students will want to discuss how and why Senor Quexada becomes Don Quixote. This famous story, considered by many to be the first novel, has contributed the adjective "quixotic" and the phrase "tilting at windmills" to the English vocabulary. Students can use the dictionary to explain how these phrases describe others besides Don Quixote. This story also contains the first example of comic partners who are physical opposites (think Laurel and Hardy). Discuss and write why such pairs continue to be funny. Don Quixote sees the windmills as threatening giants. Students can write about an occasion when they mistook one object for another. Check to see whether your library has the movie of John Lithgow as Don Quixote and Don Hoskins as Sancho Panza. | |
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 Helping Students in the Writing Processhttp://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/help_writing_process.pdf |
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Literature Circles http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/lit_circles.pdf |
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Reader's Theater http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/readers_theater.pdf |
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Sketch to Stretch http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/sketch_stretch.pdf |
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