Chapter 2...
Chapter 2:
Key Vocabulary:
1. territorial
2. pilchards
3. scoffing
4. mob
5. crafty
Extension: luminous, anchored, dinghy, generator, crevice, compost
Focus Questions:
1. Why did the ground of the orchard stink?
2. Why would bells keep the birds away? What other ways are there to keep fruit safe?
3. What did Dora Jackson mean when she said Blueback was a 'Crafty old thing'?
4. Can you come up with three synonyms for crafty? Can you come up with three antonyms?
Extension
a) What would you have named Blueback? Why would you have given him that name?
b) Where do we use compost in our communities? What could we use from our everyday life to create a compost heap? What are the environmental advantages or disadvantageous of creating compost?
c) Why doesn't Winton always say who is speaking after each of the quotation marks?
d) Why do you think Abel says that he is lonely sometimes?
Writing focus:
Set your own scene. How would you describe your own backyard? Challenge: Create metaphors to help with the description.
Summary:
Even while Abel helped his mother to clean and freeze the abalone he was dreaming of going back to see the huge groper again. They boiled the shells up to clean them so they can sell them in town. He asks his mother can they go out the next day but she says there is school, he asks can they go out after school and fish. After breakfast he carts washed seaweed up to the fruit trees for mulch, and they also fertilize with chopped up pilchards and salmon they have netted, the whole area stinks but Abel and his mother are totally dependent on the sea and the land, they grow fruit and vegetables and have ducks and chooks and a goat for milk, there is no mains electricity, only rain water and no TV. but Abel knows no other life. The Jackson’s have lived this way for over a hundred years since the whaling times. Behind the orchard is a little family graveyard, there is a cross there for his father but no body as he was taken by a shark while he was away pearling and his body was never found. Sometimes Abel is lonely but he liked being with his mother. Abel’s mother is working on the diesel generator; she has to be able to do everything. He asks her if they can go back out to see Blueback after lunch, she says they can if the weather holds seeing he is so keen, they go out but can’t find him, Mum finds a lovely big crayfish which she grabs for dinner, as she floats to the surface Blueback grabs it out of her hand. They went back down but Blueback was missing, hiding out, scoffing crayfish. They go home.
Key Vocabulary:
1. territorial
2. pilchards
3. scoffing
4. mob
5. crafty
Extension: luminous, anchored, dinghy, generator, crevice, compost
Focus Questions:
1. Why did the ground of the orchard stink?
2. Why would bells keep the birds away? What other ways are there to keep fruit safe?
3. What did Dora Jackson mean when she said Blueback was a 'Crafty old thing'?
4. Can you come up with three synonyms for crafty? Can you come up with three antonyms?
Extension
a) What would you have named Blueback? Why would you have given him that name?
b) Where do we use compost in our communities? What could we use from our everyday life to create a compost heap? What are the environmental advantages or disadvantageous of creating compost?
c) Why doesn't Winton always say who is speaking after each of the quotation marks?
d) Why do you think Abel says that he is lonely sometimes?
Writing focus:
Set your own scene. How would you describe your own backyard? Challenge: Create metaphors to help with the description.
Summary:
Even while Abel helped his mother to clean and freeze the abalone he was dreaming of going back to see the huge groper again. They boiled the shells up to clean them so they can sell them in town. He asks his mother can they go out the next day but she says there is school, he asks can they go out after school and fish. After breakfast he carts washed seaweed up to the fruit trees for mulch, and they also fertilize with chopped up pilchards and salmon they have netted, the whole area stinks but Abel and his mother are totally dependent on the sea and the land, they grow fruit and vegetables and have ducks and chooks and a goat for milk, there is no mains electricity, only rain water and no TV. but Abel knows no other life. The Jackson’s have lived this way for over a hundred years since the whaling times. Behind the orchard is a little family graveyard, there is a cross there for his father but no body as he was taken by a shark while he was away pearling and his body was never found. Sometimes Abel is lonely but he liked being with his mother. Abel’s mother is working on the diesel generator; she has to be able to do everything. He asks her if they can go back out to see Blueback after lunch, she says they can if the weather holds seeing he is so keen, they go out but can’t find him, Mum finds a lovely big crayfish which she grabs for dinner, as she floats to the surface Blueback grabs it out of her hand. They went back down but Blueback was missing, hiding out, scoffing crayfish. They go home.