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Unit goals

- Students will be able to narrate simple stories in the past simple (pretérito
perfecto simple), Past imperfect (pretérito imperfect), and construct dialogues using
the imperative in both formal and informal registers

- Students will be able to recognize different oral storytelling genres (Picaresque


stories, Ballads, Myths, Jokes) in the context of the Latin American popular narratives
and to assess a narrative using appropriate evaluative adjectives

- Students will be able to recognize how stories change depending on the


vernacular cultures where they are told and the processes of migration that affect them

Structure of Six Classes

1. The story of your family. Past simple. Introduce the characteristics of an oral
narration.
2. Stories travel. Picaresque stories as case studies. Past simple + Informal Impera-
tive
3. El Romance español (The Spanish Ballad). Spanish knights and adventures.Past
Imperfect
4. Mitos precolombinos (Precolumbian myths). The first origin of Latin American
worlds. Past Simple + Past Imperfect + Formal Imperative
5. El chiste (Jokes). Can you make a Spanish speaker laugh? Practice dialogue
construction and cultural difference of humor.
6. Migrant Spanish-speaking voices within the USA. Listening to stories of migra-
tion. Review of the structures.
Pedro Urdemales

Folk character that travel through oral history from Spain to the Americas.

He is a ‘pícaro’, a popular figure similar to the trickster, who uses his wits to survive in a
corrupt society.

There is a whole genre on the adventures of Pícaros

Pedro Urdemales is interesting because he battled the devil


Oral Narrative
Let’s create our own oral narrative!

Pedro Urdemales arrives to Times Square. He’s very hungry. How can he convince a New
York store clerck to give him food without paying?

Use the past simple and the informal imperative to construct the dialogue.
Cuentacuentos
¿cómo viajan las historias?

Storytellers
How do stories travel?

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