The Center for Children’s Literature at Bank Street College of Education and Peachtree Publishers is Teaming Up on a New Initiative to Promote High Quality Literature for Children in Spanish
Bilingual and Spanish Language Teachers
Send Your Lesson Plan Ideas to Us to Win a First Edition of:
Miguel y su valiente caballero: el joven Cervantes sueña a don Quijote
Poems de Margarita Engle; Ilustrado por Raúl Colón
Traducido por Teresa Mlawer y Georgina Lázaro
(Peachtree Publishers 2018)
A poetic, fictionalized account of an iconic author with realistic, pen, ink and water color illustrations
Submit a one-page lesson plan or thematic unit outline you have created for a Spanish language or a bilingual classroom grades K-12 in any discipline using Miguel y su valiente caballero: el joven Cervantes sueña a don Quijote (You can work from this PDF of the book Miguel y su valiente caballero to create your plan.) The outline should contain the following information written in English or Spanish.
- Your name and school
- Description of Classroom, Grade Level, No. of Students, Discipline
- Teaching Objective(s)
- One or two paragraph summary of activities.
- Materials Needed
Please put your information on this worksheet: Miguel y su valiente caballero hoja de trabajo.
Bank Street staff and affiliates will review the work and we will post the best lesson plan ideas, crediting you on the Center for Children’s Literature blog. Winners will receive a first edition of the book from Peachtree Publishers soon after its release in March 2018.
For questions and to submit plans contact cweill@bankstreet.edu
Please send your lesson plan no later than January 30, 2018
Note we reserve the right to eliminate incomplete or unprofessionally prepared materials from consideration. Limit of 25 award copies. Submissions accepted from September 1, 2017 – January 30, 2018. Outlines will be reviewed for content, creativity, feasibility of execution, clarity of writing and intellectual quality by Bank Street staff. Submissions should need little or no editing. A sample of student work appreciated with submission but not necessary for application.
The Center for Children’s Literature at Bank Street College of Education seeks to promote the highest quality of literature for children in English and Spanish.
Miguel y su valiente caballero: el joven Cervantes sueña a don Quijote
PDF Miguel y su valiente caballero