Introduction Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Lesson 3 Lesson 4 Lesson 5 Lesson 6 Lesson 7 Lesson 8 Lesson 9 Lesson 10 Teacher Resource
| This lesson invalves the: Prologue, Chapter 1 and 2. | Teachers can read the
Prologue and Chapter 1. Students can read Chapter 2 |
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The book starts out in downtown New York City.
Which looks like this!
The beginning of this book includes a series of letters between Jacob (or as his father called him, "Jake") and his father. These letters set the scene for the book. In addition, the author includes the main character's thoughts about what he has read or been told by others. These sections are set apart from the rest of the text by: quotes, separate paragraphs and the text being italicised.
The whole book is written from the view point of Jacob Lansa -- as if you were able to see the world through his eyes. This kind of writing uses personal pronouns. Personal pronouns are nouns (a person, place or thing), but instead of always using a person's name (Jacob), the Author uses words that take the place of Jacob's name, like "I, me, my," etc. If the Author was to write the book in "third person," he would have written as if someone was standing back and telling about what they saw. A good example of this method of communication is a play-by-play commentary of a hockey game.
#99 skates down the ice. He's got a break-away! Look at him move. No one is near him as he moves way out front. He shoots, he scores! |
Visit this site to find out about Time Zones. Jacob knew what time
it was in Kenya. How did he know?
At this site, you will have to know what the + means. It means one day ahead of today.
To figure out the time difference, count the time from today's time to the Kenyan equivalent.
Now add that number of hours to the time you want to know.
Jacob had a picture of a tranquilliser gun like this picture. Note the dart that is being put in the back of the gun.
Visit Jacob's father's old job site, the New York Bronx Zoo.
Learn about the North American Hopi Indians.
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The Fun Zone
Here is a fun activity. It is a Word Seek that scrambles the words every time you use it. It has a list of vocabulary words found in the first few chapters of the book.
Want to see what a Fallow Deer looks like?
Introduction Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Lesson 3 Lesson 4 Lesson 5 Lesson 6 Lesson 7 Lesson 8 Lesson 9 Lesson 10 Teacher Resources
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