El almohadón de pluma by Horacio Quiroga

Simple questions that have an obvious answer within the text. Do not let them skip ahead! We read each part as a class, discussing line by line, acting out and finally writing five questions per section. I have students fold this embedded readinginto quarters so that they are only looking at the relevant section. Finally we completed this power point vocab presentationtogether. Rather than fly through it be sure to linger and discuss why some options are wrong have fun imagining that the casa de los reyes es un rasguño rather than a palacio. When I thought that they were ready I gave them the list and they translated the list on their own in class, verifying their acquisition. I did not give this sheet to students until I felt that they already knew the words so that it did not feel like a vocabulary list that we were plugging through but rather some spontaneous conversations. I taught this story this year with a larger unit about love, dating norms and gender roles.Ĭlick here to download the phrases that I use in class telling class stories and PQA until students have developed an automatic response to the phrases. When I teach this story I use embedded readings to build up from a very simple version of the story until, by the end of the week, students are reading the original version written by Horacio Quiroga. It almost sounds like a proto-feminist fable and I like to point out the cues that lead the reader to condemn Jordán and his cold, passionless behavior. It is also fun to misdirect the reader Quiroga leads us to believe that the life of the young wife is slowly being drained away due to the lack of love in her new marriage. On one level El almohadón de plumas is just a good horror story that is fun to act out in class. This is certainly a difficult text to teach due to the advanced language.

El almohadón de pluma by Horacio Quiroga