Don Quixote

High school (ages 12+)
Art & Creativity

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

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Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. Who wrote Don Quixote?Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616), a Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
2. What is the publication dates?Part 1: 1605. Part 2: 1615
3. What is the setting?La Mancha, Spain
4. What is Don Quixote about?It’s about a man named Alonso Quijano who reads a lot of knight stories and decides he is a knight, going on adventures and seeing ordinary things as giants.
5. Why does Don Quixote think windmills are giants?Because he is convinced he is a knight, he misinterprets windmills as huge enemies he must fight.

Hidalgo: A member of the lower nobility in Spain, typically possessing land but little wealth.
Chivalric Romance: A genre of prose or verse narrative popular in the Middle Ages, focusing on the adventures of knights.
Metafiction: Fiction that self-consciously draws attention to its status as a work of fiction, often by discussing the author or the act of writing.