The Little Eskimo

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• What are the shadows of the living? Explain. • Thinking about your future, you can be anything you wish to be. What are your dreams for your future? What things do you need to do to accomplish them? • You might like to use a Venn Diagram or mind mapping tools to share your thoughts. http:// www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/pdf/venn.pdf • How is it a gift to know you can walk toward whichever future you choose? • Ask some adults in your life what their dreams were when they were younger and how they are different now. Did their lives turn out the way they thought they might when they were younger? You might like to interview them and write a newspaper article, or interview them by podcast or on video. Visual Literacy • What do you notice about the shape in the snow in the illustration on page 6? • Look carefully at the facial expressions of the three characters featured on page 8. What emotions do you recognise? How are these characters feeling and why might they be feeling this way? • In the illustration on page 12, a tree has been cut down. Who do you think cut down the tree and why? • Little Eskimo’s dog looks afraid on page 13. Why do we think he is afraid? Of whom is he afraid? Does Little Eskimo look afraid? • Look at the picture of Whale on page 16. What kind of whale is this? • Pause on page 20. What emotion do you think is being conveyed with this illustration? How might Little Eskimo be feeling? • Look carefully at the illustration on page 23. How is Little Eskimo feeling? What do you think of Death as a Great White Moose? Does he look scary or friendly? • What do you think Little Eskimo can see? • Look carefully at the illustration on page 26/27. The Little Eskimo looks happy to get back to his village. How do you think he might be feeling? What might he do now? Activities • Ask some adults in your life what their dreams were when they were younger and how they are different now. Did their lives turn out the way they thought they might when they were younger? You might like to interview them and write a newspaper article, or interview them by podcast or on video • Choose your favourite illustration from The Little Eskimo. Can you recreate the illustration yourself? Support this activity with a written explanation of why this is your favourite picture. Teachers’ Notes © Copyright 2013, Wilkins Farago Pty Ltd PO Box 78, Albert Park, Victoria 3206, Australia | Tel/fax (03) 9636 3026 sales@wilkinsfarago.com.au | www.wilkinsfarago.com.au
Reflections on The Little Eskimo Now you have completed reading The Little Eskimo, it is time to reflect on the story. Revisit the thoughts and reactions you had while reading. You might like to complete the following activities. Interview: Choose a character from The Little Eskimo to interview. Write 6 questions you would ask this character and then write the answers you think the character would give you. 6 Word Story: Using only six words, summarise The Little Eskimo and its story line. You may choose to do this from the point of view of one of the characters. Thinking about The Little Eskimo • Go to http://oneword.com/ • After reading the instructions, click ‘go’ • You will have ONE minute. With the word that appears at the top of the screen choose to do one of the following- • Write a piece of dialogue between two characters using the word provided OR • Write as much as you can about a character using the word provided. Do NOT submit your writing, instead, highlight what you have written, copy and paste OR take a screenshot of the page. Paste this into a page in your Digital Scrapbook. Don’t forget to copy in the URL of the site and date your work. Character Voki 1. After reading The Little Eskimo, think about the ‘voices’ of the characters 2. You will be creating a talking avatar using Voki.com. 3. Go to Voki.com and log-in or create a Voki account. (Note: If you are not logged in, you will not be able to embed your Voki in your blog/keynote.) 4. Choose two characters from The Little Eskimo. Create a Voki for those characters. Due to the word count limitations in each Voki, you may need to do a few Vokis for your character to complete the speech requirements. You’re writing the speech in first person as if the character is talking about himself/herself. Include the following details in your speech: Three text details that describe their behaviours, how they feel, what they might be think ing about one another/their situation, their appearance, etc. Book Trailer – The Little Eskimo Make a book trailer for The Little Eskimo using the following instructions. Consider carefully your choices of images, music and the ‘mood’ you wish to convey in your book trailer. Using iMovie/Windows Movie Maker, you will be creating a Book Trailer for The Little Eskimo. This will form part of your assessment for this Unit of work. Create a folder on your desktop titled Book Trailer- The Little Eskimo Source images from the following websites (remember to save the URL’s of the images chosen and paste them into a Word doc for later). Teachers’ Notes © Copyright 2013, Wilkins Farago Pty Ltd PO Box 78, Albert Park, Victoria 3206, Australia | Tel/fax (03) 9636 3026 sales@wilkinsfarago.com.au | www.wilkinsfarago.com.au
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