The Cay Lesson 3

Materials

¨      The Cay novel, Lesson Plan

Method

¨     Begin with sentence starters, ask student to be creative

1. Living in a place without seasons...

2. When submarines attack..

¨     Take up as a class

¨     Have students remove their chairs and sit on their desks for the majority of the period

¨     Read Chapter 3

¨     Students sit back in their desks

¨     Complete discussion questions from teacher manual:

1.      How was Phillip’s mother different after the torpedoing? Why do you suppose this is? (page 29, She was calm, talked quietly, her hands were not shaking and she gave good directions.)

2.      How did Phillip describe Timothy when he first saw him? (page 31 “huge very old Negro . . .His nose was flat and his face was broad; his head was a mass of wiry gray hair.” Page 33, “ . . .Muscles rippled over the ebony of his arms and around his shoulders. His chest was thick and his neck was the size of a small tree. The skin of his hands and feet were alligatored and cracked.”)

3.      Why do you think Timothy called Phillip “young bahss”? (page 33)

4.      Why didn’t Phillip’s mother like black people? (prejudice- “They are not the same as you, Phillip. They are different and they live differently.”)

5.      Why did Phillip begin to think his mother was right about black people? (page 37 Because Timothy would not give him all the water he wanted.)

¨     Extension: have students write a monologue from the perspective of Phillip about what has happened so far

¨     Have students copy out vocabulary words

Assessment

Comprehension Questions, informal observation

IEP

Storyboarding

Chapter 3 Vocabulary