Chapter One...
Key Vocabulary:
1. outboard motor
2. rudder
3. clutched
4. current
5. mosaic
Extension: surged, loomed, granite, prised, sediment, quaked, reluctantly
Focus Questions:
1. What are some of the adjectives Winton uses to set the underwater scene
2. "Gliding like a bird" is an example of a .......... Can you find another example?
3. Why does Dora Jackson say they are lucky to see Blueback?
Extension:
a) Who do you think Jesse, Harry and Alice are?
b) What is Abel's opinion of the ocean? How do you know?
c) Describe the Blue Groper.
d) Why does Winton include quotes before starting the text?
e) How did Abel and Blueback "shake hands" ?
Summary:
It is barely dawn when Abel and his mother get into their boat and head around to Robbers Head, drop the anchor and start to dive into the water searching for Abalone which they sell. After several dives, Abel is at the deepest point and nearly out of air when he feels a rush in the water behind him, he turns around to see a huge mouth, eyes like golf balls coming at him, the creature grabs his hand and takes the abalone, the pain is terrible and he screams then shoots to the surface. His whole body quaked and trembled. He screams to his mother to get in the boat but she laughs and tells him it is okay, she makes him look down and he realises it isn’t a shark but the biggest fish he has ever seen. She tells him it is a blue groper and they sink back into the water to have a close look at it, his mother feeds it some abalone and then it darts into a dark hole. They climb back into the boat and head for home, he has lived at Longboat Bay all his life and “every day is special but it all became much more precious the day he shook hands with old Blueback.”
1. outboard motor
2. rudder
3. clutched
4. current
5. mosaic
Extension: surged, loomed, granite, prised, sediment, quaked, reluctantly
Focus Questions:
1. What are some of the adjectives Winton uses to set the underwater scene
2. "Gliding like a bird" is an example of a .......... Can you find another example?
3. Why does Dora Jackson say they are lucky to see Blueback?
Extension:
a) Who do you think Jesse, Harry and Alice are?
b) What is Abel's opinion of the ocean? How do you know?
c) Describe the Blue Groper.
d) Why does Winton include quotes before starting the text?
e) How did Abel and Blueback "shake hands" ?
Summary:
It is barely dawn when Abel and his mother get into their boat and head around to Robbers Head, drop the anchor and start to dive into the water searching for Abalone which they sell. After several dives, Abel is at the deepest point and nearly out of air when he feels a rush in the water behind him, he turns around to see a huge mouth, eyes like golf balls coming at him, the creature grabs his hand and takes the abalone, the pain is terrible and he screams then shoots to the surface. His whole body quaked and trembled. He screams to his mother to get in the boat but she laughs and tells him it is okay, she makes him look down and he realises it isn’t a shark but the biggest fish he has ever seen. She tells him it is a blue groper and they sink back into the water to have a close look at it, his mother feeds it some abalone and then it darts into a dark hole. They climb back into the boat and head for home, he has lived at Longboat Bay all his life and “every day is special but it all became much more precious the day he shook hands with old Blueback.”