Tilting At Windmills

We're finishing up our biography and autobiography unit.  Hannah, the student teacher, came up with this great lesson plan about Miguel de Cervantes, the author of Don Quixote.  To give them some background, she showed them a picture of him:

Questions from the students included:

Is that a man or a woman?
Where's the rest of his body?


Oh, but it goes on.  Apparently during Cervantes's lifetime, there was this thing called the Holy League.  I freely admit I knew nothing about this--apparently it was a group of Catholic countries that joined together to drive the Turks out of the eastern Mediterranean in 1571.  The students immediately thought that it was a church softball team.  Seems logical to me.