The historical frontier novel, Sign of the Beaver, is about the developing relationship between twelve year old Matt and a thirteen year old Indian boy named Attean. One day Attean and his grandfather save Matt’s life after he tries to retrieve honey from a bee-tree. In return for the Indian’s kindness, Matt offers them the only thing he has to offer; his worn copy of Robinson Crusoe. Immediately Matt regrets his gift after he realizes that the Indians cannot read. However, the Attean’s grandfather sees that the book has the written words that had stolen his people’s land. He proposes that Matt teaches his grandson, Attean, how to read the signs. Robinson Crusoe is an interesting book that should appeal to students' love of adventure and will go along with our novel study.
I plan to read some of the excerpts
from that Matt uses while teaching Attean how to read. Last year in summer school, much to my
surprise, my students became very interested in the novel Robinson Crusoe. As I read I
will have my students to write some unfamiliar vocabulary words. Afterwards we will take some of the
vocabulary words and make a game of who can be the use their iPads to find the
definition of these words the fastest.
Hopefully, my students will be able to use context clues to figure out
most of the unfamiliar vocabulary. It
would be great if some of my brave, daring students would volunteer to reenact
the scenes that were read. This should
be entertaining and fun.
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