Chapter 15...
Chapter 15:
Key Vocabulary:
gingerly
tumbleweed
darted
cradled
frail
Focus Questions:
1. Who do you feel the most emotionally connected to? Why?
2. In what way did old Dora think that Abel was just like his father?
3. What inference can you make from the sentence...
‘A long, blue shadow swerved into the shallows and swam around them once, stirring up the sand like confetti against them’ ?
Extension
a. How do you think old Dora and Abel’s parent/child roles were reversed in Chap. 15?
b. Locate and identify all the examples of figurative language in this chapter.
Summary:
After a few years Dora was too frail to walk anymore and sometimes Abel carried her out to he veranda, she told them that Abel’s father had introduced Abel to the water as soon as he was born, on the night before she died he carried her into the ocean and let her float in the water in his arms, Blueback swam around them. The next afternoon she died in her sleep.
Key Vocabulary:
gingerly
tumbleweed
darted
cradled
frail
Focus Questions:
1. Who do you feel the most emotionally connected to? Why?
2. In what way did old Dora think that Abel was just like his father?
3. What inference can you make from the sentence...
‘A long, blue shadow swerved into the shallows and swam around them once, stirring up the sand like confetti against them’ ?
Extension
a. How do you think old Dora and Abel’s parent/child roles were reversed in Chap. 15?
b. Locate and identify all the examples of figurative language in this chapter.
Summary:
After a few years Dora was too frail to walk anymore and sometimes Abel carried her out to he veranda, she told them that Abel’s father had introduced Abel to the water as soon as he was born, on the night before she died he carried her into the ocean and let her float in the water in his arms, Blueback swam around them. The next afternoon she died in her sleep.