About This Lesson
Adventures of Don Quixote was originally written in the early 1600s by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (generally referred to as “Cervantes”/saer*von*taes/). It represents a very popular genre of books read and enjoyed by many people during this period, recounting fantastic adventures, brave deeds, and fanciful romances of various fictitious knights. However, Cervantes wrote Adventures of Don Quixote to poke fun at this genre of books, which were inspired by true accounts of the exploits and exploration of knights, or soldiers, who actually lived during the Middle Ages. This unit uses the following trade book as the reader: Adventures of Don Quixote, Text copyright © 1979 by Argentina Palacios Illustrations copyright © 1999 by Dover Publications, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Dover Publications, Inc. This unit also provides explicit instruction in reading, writing, morphology, grammar, and spelling.
