Level T
Summary: A young girl describes her journey to the New World.
Vocabulary:
stench
fearsome
consultation
caulked
mousers
lasses
fortnight
Focus Question: What challenges did pilgrims have to face in their travels to the New World?
Text Features:
Look at the first illustration. How does this illustration help the reader imagine who the letter writer was?
How does the illustration of the ship support the author's descriptions of what it was like to sail through a storm?
Key Ideas:
What key idea does Lizzy introduce in the first paragraph?
What details does she use to support her idea?
Text Structure:
What informational text structure does the writer use in the first paragraph - sequence, compare and contrast, or description?
Vocabulary:
Why were there so few lasses on the ship?
Why do you think Lizzy was so grateful to find Mary?
After the consultation, what was decided?
Make Inferences:
How do the author's descriptive details help you imagine what life is like on a ship?
What details are the most vivid?
What can you conclude about Lizzy's experience?
How would you characterize the voyage?
Final Questions:
How does Lizzy use sensory details to describe life on the ship?
What key idea does the writer introduce about storms at sea?
What future challenges might be waiting for Lizzy and the pilgrims in the New World?