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Interest Level - Grades 6 – 8 Reading Level - Grade level Equivalent: 6.3 & Lexile Measure®: 860L
The Cay Table of Contents
Table of Contents 2
Lesson Plans at a Glance 5
Vocabulary
Word of the Day (20 Words) 6
Vocabulary List with Definitions and Sentences from The Cay 7
Vocabulary Practice 1 (refinery, blackout, navigation, schooner) 11
Vocabulary Practice 2 (refinery, blackout, navigation, navigate, drone, thrash, lurch, fret) 12
Vocabulary Practice 3 (refinery, blackout, navigation, tempest, thrash, catchment, schooner) 13
Vocabulary Practice 4 (complete list) 14
Vocabulary Test 16
Comprehension 17
Chapter 1 18
Constructive Response (Meaning of Simile) 20
Chapter 2 21
Constructive Response (Importance of Setting and the Mood) 24
Chapter 3 25
Constructive Response (Comparing Phillip to Timothy) 28
Chapter 4 29
Constructive Response (Responding to Quotes) 31
Chapters 5-6 32
Constructive Response (Summarizing) 34
Constructive Response (Characters’ Actions) 35
Chapters 7-8 36
Constructive Response (Problems and Solutions) 39
Chapters 9-10 40
Constructive Response (Character Growth/Change) 42
Chapters 11-12 43
Constructive Response (Your Course of Action vs. Phillip’s Course of Action) 45
Chapters 13-14 46
Constructive Response (Responding to Text) 49
Chapters 15-16 50
Constructive Response (Theme) 53
Chapters 17-19 54
Constructive Response (Comparing The Cay to other Novels in the Same Genre) 56
English Lessons – Sentence Unit 57
Lesson 1 - Understanding Sentence Problems 58
Organizer 59
Response Cards 62
Oral Practice 63
Written Practice 64
Example Slides from PowerPoint Presentation 65
Lesson 2 – Correcting Choppy Sentences 67
Organizers 68
Oral Practice 79
Written Practice 80
Lesson 3 – Using Conjunctions to Correct Run-On Sentences 83
Organizer (Types of Conjunctions) 84
Response Cards 86
Organizer (Coordinating Conjunctions) 87
Chart of Subordination Conjunctions 89
Oral Practice 90
Written Practice 93
Lesson 4 – Four Methods for Correcting Run-On Sentences 95
Single Page with Four Methods of Correcting Run-On Sentences 97
Organizer (Independent/Dependent Clauses) 98
Organizer (Four Methods for Correcting Run-Ons) 100
Organizer (Simple, Compound, Complex, & Compound Complex Sentences) 103
Response Cards 105
Oral Practice 108
Written Practice 110
Skill Lesson on Dialect (This lesson compares two very different dialects. The
first is Appalachian Mountain dialect from the book Shiloh, and the second is
the Caribbean Island dialect from The Cay.)
Lesson Goals, Essential Question, Common Core Standards, and Hook 111
Writing Sentences into Standard English (Shiloh) 112
Writing Sentences into Standard English (The Cay) 114
Discussing Dialects 116
Chart Benefits vs. Disadvantages 117
Story Elements
Lesson Goals, Essential Question, Common Core Standards, and Hook 118
Story Map with Definitions 119
PowerPoint 120
Blank Story Map 121
Answer Key to Story Map 122
Poster Board Story Map Pieces 123
Activities to Do With the Book 135
Setting – Salt Dough Map 136
Research Topics and Mini Reports 138
Coral Reefs Craft Project 143
Weaving 141
Carnival Masks 145
Edible Octopus 146
Coconut 147
The Story in Drawings 148
Answer Keys 150
Username and Password to Interactive Quizzes 163
Lesson Plans for The Cay
Day Vocabulary Reading& Comprehension Quizzes
Activity Choices Skills
1. refinery (noun) Chapter 1 p. 9-17 Comprehension Quiz
Map of Phillip's Caribbean home
2. blackout (noun) Chapter 2 p. 18-27 Comprehension Quiz
Lesson 1 (Understanding Sentence Problems - choppy sentences, run-on sentences, and stringy sentences)
3. navigate (verb) navigation (noun)
Chapter 3 p. 28-38 Comprehension Quiz
Make sextant
4. schooner (noun) Vocabulary Practice 1
Chapter 4 p. 39-46 Comprehension Quiz
5. drone (verb) Chapter 5 p. 47-51
Lesson 2 (Combining Sentences)
6. thrash (verb) Chapter 6 p. 52-55 Comprehension Quiz
7. lurch (verb) fret (verb) Vocabulary Practice 2
Chapter 7 p. 56-62
Make a model of a coral reef
8. crow (verb) Chapter 8
p. 63-68
Comprehension Quiz
Lesson 3
(Run-on Sentences)
9. stun (verb) Chapter 9 p. 69-72
Weaving
10. catchment (noun) Chapter 10
p. 73-78
Comprehension Quiz
Carnival Masks
11. connive (verb) Chapter 11 p. 79-87
Edible Octopus Lesson 4 (Run-on Sentences)
12. regain (verb) Chapter 12
p. 88-92
Comprehension Quiz
13. treacherous (adjective) Chapter 13 p. 93-100
Eat coconut
14. tempest (noun) Chapter 14 p. 101-105 Comprehension Quiz
Lesson 5 Dialect
15. flay (verb) Vocabulary Practice 3
Chapter 15 p. 106-112
16. debris (noun) Chapter 16 p. 113-119 Comprehension Quiz
17. gingerly (adverb) Chapter 17 p. 120-123
18. blot out (verb phrase) Chapter 18 p. 124-131
19. badger Vocabulary Practice 4
Chapter 19 p. 132-137 Comprehension Quiz
Retell the story in drawings Story Map
20. Vocabulary Test
The Cay Chapter 1
1. Read the following sentence from Chapter 1.
Like silent, hungry sharks that swim in the darkness, the German submarines arrived in the middle
of the night.
The author uses the simile in this sentence to ______________ .
a) make the reader know that sharks swim in the sea around Willemstad
b) to emphasize how frightening the arrival of German submarines was to the people of Willemstad
c) to describe to the reader what the German submarines looked like
d) to make the German submarines seem real
2. Which line from the book shows that it is written in first person?
a) I was asleep on the second floor of our narrow, gabled green house in Willemstad, on the island
of Curacao, the largest of the Dutch islands just off the coast of Venezuela.
b) One German sub was even sighted off Willemstad at dawn.
c) Phillip, the enemy has finally attacked the island, and there will be no school today.
d) They once stormed the island long ago.
3. “The Cay” can best be described as
a) historical fiction.
b) a drama.
c) a biography.
d) realistic fiction.
4. How does the setting in Chapter 1 emphasize conflict in the story?
a) Native schooners from Venezuela, Aruba, and Bonaire were coming in with bananas, oranges,
papayas, melons, and vegetables.
b) The Dutch were raiding the Spanish galleons.
c) Willemstad had to defend itself against the storming pirates and the British.
d) World War II had come to the Caribbean by way of Germans who wanted the oil from the
refineries.
5. Phillip and his best friend Henrik disobey their mothers by _______________ .
a) skipping school to go down to the shipyard
b) going down to the harbor after the arrival of the Germans
c) playing war games with the Caribbean sailors by pretending to be pirates
d) using Mr. van Boven's binoculars to see the soldiers in the ancient fort
6. Phillip and Henrik _________.
a) were natives of Curacao
b) were both from America
c) were both from the Netherlands
d) came to Curacao from different countries; Phillip from America and Henrik from the Netherlands
7. Phillip's father came to Curacao to ___________.
a) study the trees, fish, and birds
b) be a tour guide taking tourist on hikes around Krup Bay or Seroe Male
c) work on a program to increase production of aviation gas
d) work for the fire department on the island
8. The people of Curacao planned __________.
a) to drop bombs on the German submarines
b) ride out to the submarines in boats to attack the Germans
c) nothing, because they didn't have any weapons
d) to ask the Amsterdam government to help
9. Why are the islands of Aruba and Curacao important and in danger of German attack?
a) They have oil and an oil refinery. The Germans want the oil and fuel.
b) The Germans need a base for supplies in the Caribbean. Aruba and Curacao are good sources of
food and water.
c) Aruba and Curacao have an American ambitions supply depot on the islands.
d) The Germans feel the large population of Caribbean soldiers will attack their native homeland.
10. Which word completes the analogy?
refinery is to gasoline as dairy farm is to _____________
a) cow
b) milk
c) barn
d) farmer
11. Which sentence from Chapter 1 is an opinion?
a) I remembered the summers with lightning bugs and honeysuckle smells.
b) I was only seven when we'd moved to the Caribbean.
c) I guess my mother was homesick for Virginia, where no one talked Dutch, and there was no
smell of gas or oil.
d) She went back into the kitchen.
12. If a student wants to find the location of Curacao, where should she or he look?
a) an atlas
b) a textbook
c) the glossary
d) the dictionary
Read the beginning of the novel.
Like silent, hungry sharks that swim in the darkness of the sea, the German submarines arrive in
the middle of the night.
The author Theodore Taylor compares the German submarines to sharks. How are these two
objects similar? Why is this good comparison? What feeling does the reader get about German
submarines from this passage?
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German
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Sharks
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.5.5a Interpret figurative language, including similes and metaphors, in context.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.6.1 Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences
drawn from the text.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7.1 Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as
well as inferences drawn from the text.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.8.1 Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly
as well as inferences drawn from the text.
The sentence lessons review rules through foldable organizers and PowerPoint lessons which may be found on the password protected website. (Note: These PowerPoint lesson are similar to the free PowerPoints which are following on the following page:
http://www.mce.k12tn.net/survival/cay/cay.htm) The difference between the two is that the password protected PowerPoints focus on
The Cay whereas the free examples are about about Johnson County.
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