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Your goal in Stage II is to engage your mind actively by searching the literary text for physical and visual clues that will establish the purpose for reading it and will help you predict its meaning. Using these clues and your own background knowledge, you will explore the text and speculate on what you might learn from it. Certain words and phrases will suggest a context, which may or may not be correct, and the context in turn will trigger information about similar situations you may have experienced, read about, or heard about. The results of your pre-reading observations will then provide the basis for free association exercises. Stay open to all possibilities. Here quantity of thought is the goal; correctness of thought can be determined later.
El viejo celoso (263.0K)
Task 1. Copy Text. Click the link above and print out the play.
Task 2. Segment Text. There are 371 lines in the play. If you make each segment approximately 25 lines long, there will be about 15 segments.
Task 3. Number Segments. Number the segments and write those numbers on a separate sheet of paper. Remember to allow plenty of space to write about each segment; if possible, have no more than two segments per page. You will use this numbered paper to document observations and information about the corresponding segments.
Task 1. Review. Look back at Task 2 in Stage I, Strategy 3, and review the origin and definition of a "cuckold." Also review the information about Cervantes' attitude toward society.
Task 2. Brainstorm.
Task 1. Skim Each Segment.
Task 1. Compare.
Task 2. Elaborate.
Task 3. Brainstorm and Speculate.