Genre: Historical Fiction - a story that is set in the past
Reading Skills: Story Structure, Compare and Contrast
Strategy: Infer/Predict
Essential Question: Why is everyone's role on a project important?
Student Objectives:
Compare and contrast the main characters in the story.
Explain how characters' actions contribute to the story's sequence of events.
Use text evidence to infer and predict what will happen in the story.
crew: a group of people doing work
tide: the rise and fall of the sea
cling: to hold tightly to something
balancing: keeping steady
foggy: filled with thick mist or low clouds
disappears: passes from sight
stretch: to spread out
excitement: the feeling of being stirred up