Free lesson scripts

A free Spanish lesson for Monday, built around one painting

A complete 15-minute lesson, scripted in Spanish and English, with a student activity sheet. Choose Las dos Fridas, El gato, or Las Meninas, open it, and teach.

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The cover of the Historia de Arte Free Lesson Scripts PDF: Teach Spanish through Art and Story

Sunday night

Sunday night. Six tabs open. Monday still isn’t built.

That’s a curriculum team’s job, and you’re doing it alone.

This lesson is one piece of that job, already done. Students look at a painting first, so they have something real to describe. It covers the first two steps of the Historia de Arte method, Introduce and Observe, and takes about 15 minutes.

Nobody runs out of things to say about something they’ve really seen.

Inside

What’s inside the free lesson.

  • A 15-minute lesson, scripted in Spanish and English. Introduce the artist, look in silence, name what you see, and tell the story together.
  • One question, four levels. Teacher prompts and sentence starters from VEO to DOMINO, so a mixed-level class joins the same conversation.
  • A word menu students point to. Six word lists that work with any artwork, so nobody is stuck for a word.
  • Three artworks to choose from: Las dos Fridas, El gato, or Las Meninas, plus a plan for when the room goes quiet.
  • A student activity sheet, as a PDF with a fillable Google Doc copy.

Look inside

Look at this.

Three pages from the lesson, so you can see the depth before you open it.

The Your 15-minute lesson page: Paso 1 Introducir and Paso 2 Observar, scripted in Spanish and English
The lessonSay this, ask that, in Spanish and English.
The Discussion Guide page: teacher prompts and sentence starters at four levels for Introduce and Observe
The promptsSentence starters at all four levels.
The student activity sheet: Mis observaciones, Veo
The student sheetStudents write what they see, then tell the story in three lines.

Is this for you?

This is for you if…

  • You teach Spanish in middle school or high school.
  • You build your lessons from scratch, again, on a Sunday night.
  • You ask a question in Spanish and the room goes quiet.
  • Your class has mixed levels and you want one lesson, not four.
  • Spanish isn’t your first language, and you want the words ready.
Rachel Havana smiling on a city street

About

Made by the Historia Portfolio Studio.

Rachel builds it in California. She has a degree in Spanish, more than 20 years of bilingual experience, and designs curriculum. Everything in this lesson comes from what she watched work with real students.

Pick one painting this week. Then listen!

Teach the free lesson once, with one class, and see what your students have to say.

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