Teaching the novel Bianca Nieves y los 7 toritos
According to my end of year survey the favorite book of the year for Spanish 2 was Carrie Toth’s Bianca Nieves y los 7 toritos. It is technically a level 1 book, but with the high interest story and theme, and past tense, it was a great way to end the year in level 2. You can get the novel and teachers guide on tyhe website. The guide is one of my favorites and has such great ideas. There are so many for each chapter in fact, that I am going to share what I chose to use in this post. If you would like more details on each activity, I highly recommend you get the teacher’s guide.
Before starting the novel
Check out the post planning for Bianca Nieves for tons of pre reading resources on Spain, and bullfighting. We completed the below activities over a couple of weeks of strange testing schedules and Easter break.
My actual bullfighting pictures & realia
Chapter 1
Intro of Vocab with Quizlet of Book – Quizlet Live
Chapter 2
4 Corners with a twist for who said it
Plate Sketch Game (teacher’s guide)
Chapter 3
Novel predictions to practice future tense
Order of events with manipulatives (teacher’s guide)
Order of events with manipulatives (teacher’s guide)
Chapter 4
Main Idea Graphic Organizer (teacher’s guide)
authentic bullfighting tweets (teacher’s guide)
authentic bullfighting tweets (teacher’s guide)
Read outside to enjoy the weather
Chapter 5
Human Props (teacher’s guide)
Who said it Ch1-5 review (Cynthia Hitz) or as Kahoot
Ch1-5 Review slide show (teacher’s guide)
Interpersonal Conversation Circles (students came prepared to just discuss the book so far)
Chapter 6
Mad Lib (teacher’s guide)
Reader’s Theater
Conversation Ta Ta Ti (teacher’s guide)
Chapter 7
Fact or Opinion – manipulative (teacher’s guide)
Reader’s Theater (the picture below is from when we acted out a bullfight before starting the novel)
Review of novel Slide show (teacher’s guide)
Yellow Brick Road Review (teacher’s guide)
Yellow Brick Road Review (teacher’s guide)
Ferdinand – NEW!
My 2018 Update is now using the new movie Ferdinand. Here is my new guide.
Assessments
We completed the listening, reading (another point of view), and writing prompt from the teacher’s guide. Students also did a conversation circle as in interpersonal assessment.
Other Novel resources you may enjoy
Have you taught this novel? What great resources do I need for next year?
