As students read, a storyboard can serve as a helpful character reference log. This log (also called a Character Map) allows students to recall relevant information and details about important characters. With character mapping, it’s easy for students to follow along and catch the subtleties which make reading more enjoyable!
| Alonso Quijano AKA Don Quixote | A wealthy, middle-aged man, obsessed with knighthood. He reads so many books on the heroism of knights, he deems himself to be one and sets out as a knight-errant. |
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| Sancho Panza | A fat, somewhat greedy, and not very smart neighbor of Quijano. Sancho becomes “squire” to Quixote, and acts as his literary foil. |
| Rocinante & Dapple | Quixote’s horse and Sancho’s donkey. |
| Cide Hamete Benengeli | The fictional Moorish narrator whose accounts of Don Quixote the narrator references often. |
| Dulcinea | A farm girl who, unbeknownst to her, Quixote devotes his love and chivalric deeds to, believing her to be a noble lady. |
| The Priest and the Barber | Two of Don Quixote’s friends who disapprove of his delusions and capture him to return him home. |
| Ferdinand | A duke who steals Lucinda from Cardenio. He also takes Dorothea’s chastity. |
| Dorothea | The obsessed and faithful lover of Ferdinand. She cunningly hunts him down to get his hand in marriage. |
| Cardenio | Lucinda’s husband. A helpless romantic who is wronged by his wife and the duke. |
| Lucinda | Cardenio’s wife, who is beautiful and cheats on her husband with the duke. |
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Student Instructions
Create a character map for the major characters.