by Michael Morpurgo
The Journey of the "Peggy Sue"
Instructions: Students will use be assigned or choose a location from the list below. All locations are from the book, "Kensuke's Kingdom". Read the article(s) for interesting facts that you can use to write a short paragraph, or point form about the place. The information can include,: population, climate, facts, history, animals, country flag, geography, maps, pictures, famous places, and things you think are interesting. If you can use information from the book, include it.
1 Southampton, U.K.
Kiddle - This site provides a wide variety of information including: history (take note of the interesting facts in the 20th century), climate, population, and more.
HampshireLive News - A news site about Southampton. Interesting fact can be found here.
United Kingdom
The Atlantic Ocean
2 A Coruna, Spain
Kiddle - Some basic information about the city, including population and photos.
3 Azores, Portugal
KidzSearch Encyclopedia - Information about the climate, population, the islands that form the Azores and how they were formed.
A-Z Animals - Islands of the Atlantic
4 Canary Islands, Spain
5 Cape Verde Islands
Brazil
6 Recife, Brazil
Kiddle - Lots of information about Recife, Brazil. Look for the reason it was named Recife, why is so hot here? and population.
7 Río de Janeiro, Brasil
8 Saint Helena
South Africa
9 Cape Town, South Africa
Australia
10 Perth Australia
11 Sydney