Have your students experience Costa Rican culture while also exploring the themes of indigenous culture and dying languages. Malcolm is going on a trip to Costa Rica with his high school biology class to learn about the country and explore one of their Rain Forests. While in Costa Rica he goes on a fantastical, unique journey with the Boruca tribe in this Magic Realism style novel. Almost all of the activities are editable to adapt for your class. The novel is written at a Spanish 2+ level mostly in the present tense with some past, conditional, commands and subjunctive mixed in as well. It consists mainly of the use of high frequency words and cognates. I use this novel as part of a start of the year unit and review in Spanish 3. Themes in the novel: - Magic realism - Costa Rican culture - Indigenous groups, preservation of language and culture The novel guide and activities folder includes 134 pages / slides (including FULL ANSWER KEYS) of activities for use with my seven chapter novel "Un viaje al pasado". Included are: ** Pre-Chapter speaking questions for each chapter ** Chapter comprehension questions for each chapter ** chapter comprehension activities include FULL answer keys. ** Post-chapter speaking questions for each chapter ** SIX post chapter review games to strengthen skills, vocabulary, understanding and practice listening, reading and writing skills. ** A comprehension quiz with a complete answer key for each chapter ** Two writing activities (one paired and one final timed writing assessment) This is a perfect resource to use with the novel if you use the novel as a class novel study, small group reading, or enrichment for your higher level students in the class. Feel free to print copies of the novel for your students or send it to them electronically through platforms such as Google Classroom! These activities are on Google apps and require that you give TpT access to your Google Drive in order for them to be downloaded into your drive. You may also like my other novel comprehension activities: Chapter activities for La lucha continúa PDF Chapter activities for La lucha continúa on Google Docs Teacher guide and activities + Un Nuevo Aztlán novel BUNDLE