7/18/2019 Encounter! Entry Worksheet

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Name:

Explorer:

Explorers Weebly Project: Encounter! Entry

R ole:(Who’s writing?)

Child in the ___________ tribe 

 A udience:(Who is reading this?)

Future generations  Format:(How are you writing?)

 Journal Entry

 Topic:(What are writing about?)

First encounter with your 

Explorer  

SAMPLE ENTRY 

APRIL 24, 1500: Encounter! EntryExcerpted from “Encounter” by Jane Yolen

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nau_de_Pedro_%C3%81lvares_Cabral.jpgAccessed on August 9, 2010. Public Domain. 

“I left my hammock and walked to the beach. [There I saw] three great-sailed canoes floating in the bay…

When the sun rose, each great canoe gave birth to many little ones that swam awkwardly to our shore… The

baby canoes spat out many strange creatures, men but not men. We did know them as human beings, for

they hid their bodies in colors, like parrots. Their feet were hidden, also. And many of them had hair

growing like bushes on their chins. Three of them knelt before their chief and pushed sticks into the sand.

Then I was even more afraid.

“I took one by the hand and pinched it. The hand felt like flesh and blood, but the skin was moon to my sun.

Our chief gave the strangers balls of cotton thread to bind them to us in friendship. He gave them s tinysmooth balls, the color of sand and sea and sun, strung upon a thread. And they gave hollow shells with

tongues that sang chinga-chunga. And they give woven things that fit upon a man’s head and cover a boy’s

ears.

For a while I was not afraid.”

Joao

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ENCOUNTER! ENTRY: DRAFT ONE

CHECK LIST 

My entry answers the following questions:

☐ Where do you live?

☐ What do the strangers look like? What are they wearing?

☐ What is the name of your tribe?

☐How do you feel? Nervous? Excited?

My entry…

☐Uses “I” statements

☐Uses present tense verbs

☐Is at least 5 sentences long 

☐Uses at least 2 facts from my research