Dear Spanish Teacher, The Beginning Level Don Quijote Teacher’s Guide provides content, support material and instructional strategies that take the study of the Teacher’s Discovery’s illustrated reader, Don Quijote de la Mancha, to a new level for you and your students. I recommend teaching this unit in the second semester, particularly for beginning students, to give them more experience with grammar structures and verb tenses. The Beginning Don Quijote de la Mancha Illustrated Reader and Teacher’s Guide use the present tense and simple sentence structures whenever possible. Your students’ understanding of Spanish and world history will increase during this three-week unit on Don Quijote, along with their vocabulary skills and their grasp of sentence structure and verb tenses. The simplicity of the Teacher’s Discovery illustrated reader, Don Quijote de la Mancha, gives your students the chance to read one of the greatest classics in world literature in Spanish without feeling intimidated. Teacher-directed projects in this Teacher’s Guide focus on researching the history of medieval Spain and presenting those findings to the class, thus...