Created by: Rosa Zimmerman

Title of novel: La Llorona de Mazatlán

Author of novel: Katie A. Baker

Level: Level 3

Brief summary of the novel : A seventeen-year-old girl wants to go to a soccer camp in Mazatlan, Mexico. She applies for the camp but has not asked for permission to go. She is accepted into the camp.

Topics: Soccer, traveling by yourself,

Themes: Dealing with a different culture,

Pre-reading activities: Show a map of México and where Mazatlan is.

Pre-teach vocabulary.

Three pictures or objects that go with the book and make a connection of all three things and what role they have in the book.

Soccer rules and talk about World Cup.

Play song of La Llorona

Pick a sentence from the book and have students create their own sentence using some of the words from the given sentence.

Word bingo using a strip of paper.

Enrichment activities while reading:

Word bingo using a strip of paper.

Show realia from the culture you are reading about the things students are reading in the book.

Create a timeline of a chapter. Assign a chapter for students to read and have students illustrate their favorite part or scenes with action. The next day the teacher reads the chapter and students put up their illustration in the order it is read.

Post-reading activities:

Summarize the chapter or book in exactly a # of words (according to a rolled diced) in the target language.

Quién soy (similar to the dating game) students have to ask questions about the mystery character to see who they are.

Chain game – After reading a chapter, ask students to get in a circle and recall a detail of the book, the next student mentions the detail of the previous student and adds another detail and it goes like that until all students have mentioned the detail.

Making their own test. Give students the text and they write their own comprehension question.