Thursday, January 02, 2014

Mutiny on the Bounty by Tim Vicary



            In my continuing efforts to mix in some historical knowledge with the extensive reading program, we did Mutiny on the Bounty in my classes. I think my students enjoyed it, but what I know for sure is that I really found this story fascinating.  It was interesting to get some of the historical background on the true story behind the movie.

Teaching Materials
[This book contained a glossary at the back for words that might be problematic for students.  On the first day, I had the class read through the glossary, then on subsequent days I made matching exercises for the words in the glossary.  I know this is all terribly boring and uncreative, but my theory was something was better than nothing when it came to the vocabulary. With this book in particular, because there was just so much vocabulary in the glossary, I feed some of this into a crossword puzzle maker to try and make it more interesting.]

barrel, bird, breadfruit, blood, burn, canoe, captain, catch, caught, chain, launch

_______to get something with your hands
________the red liquid in a person's body
________a small wooden boat
_______the past tense of catch
________an animal which flies
________a big fruit, like an apple
________the most important officer on a ship
________to make a fire
________a metal rope
________a big "bottle" for wine, water, beer, etc.
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Sentences:
He tied the dog to the tree with a ________.
_________s can fly high in the sky.
The _________ was a small boat, seven metres long.
My cat can ______ mice.
My cat _________ a mouse yesterday.
He paddled in the _________ down the river.
We all have _______ inside our bodies.
Fire can _______ you.
I'm the __________ of this ship--remember that!
He spilled the ________ of wine.
We don't have any ____________ trees in England.

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coconut, cut, dance, damn, death, deck, food, full, goat,  God

Definitions
_______a bad word; people say this when they are angry
_________a small animal, like a sheep
_________the door of a ship
_______a big brown hard fruit; it has sweet white food and "milk" inside
________to move your body to music
________the "person" (in the Christian religion) who made the world and knows everything
_______the things we eat
_______to open something with a knife
_______when you cannot put any more into it
_______the end of life

Sentences:
Mr. Christian, you took my ________! I know you did! You're my second officer, but all you officers take my things.  _____       ________ you all!
They took Bligh out of his bed and up onto the _________
Tahitian children played on the ship, and in the evenings the sailors ________d and sang with the women.
Don't forget to feed the ________.
I'm not afraid of _________.
Give me the knife please.  I need to _______ the fruit.
I'm so hungry! Please give me some ___________.
The boat is ______.  I'm sorry, we can't put anymore things into it.
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gun, hard, hell, hold, held, island, keep, kept, king, knot

Definitions
________a piece of land with water all round it
________a thing that shoots out bullets to kill or hurt people or animals
_________to have something in your hands
________the most important man in a country
_______to have something and not give it to another person
________some people believe that bad people go here when they die
________ very difficult
________the past tense of hold
________past tense of keep
________a place where you tie two pieces of rope together

Sentences
The ______ of Tahiti, Otoo, was friendly.
In the moonlight, he saw the _______ in Christian's hand.
I'm going to live and die in ________.
England is small.  But we're going to some much smaller __________s.
Christian _________ Bligh's hands with the rope.
Please _______ my hand.
"Bad bread, too," said one man, Purcell.
Yes, but it ______s us alive," Bligh answered angrily.

The rope had _______s in it.

I didn't finish the homework because it was very ________.

I _________ eating until I had finished everything.

land, land, launch, left, mutiny, officer, pig, pick up, prisoners, prison, punishment, rope, rum, sad, sail, sail, shout, sink, sank, sir, stone, rock, storm, strong, swim, sword, throw, threw, tie, trial, untie, wave, welcome, wet, wind, wood, worry, worried

Definitions
_________to take something into your hand
_________we are pleased to see you
_________a big man is usually this.
_________when people decide what is true, and what is not
_________a small rock
_________when there is water on something
_________(verb) to think a lot about something, and to be unhappy
_________to hold something with rope so that it can't move
_________a very strong drink, like wine
_________when the sea goes up and down
_________the opposite of "to tie"
_________to make something go quickly through the air
_________to movie in water
_________past tense of "to sink"
_________how you feel when you worry
_________the air when it moves
_________(verb) to make a ship move
_________past tense of "to throw"
_________very bad weather: a lot of rain and wind
_________hard things in the ground
_________when a ship goes under the water
_________a big knife
_________pieces of a dead tree
_________a long thin thing
_________a polite word for an important man
_________(noun) a large cloth on a ship, to catch the wind
_________(noun) the opposite of sea. We all live on land
_________to talk in a loud voice
_________a man who helps the ship's captain
_________people in a prison
_________what happens to bad people
_________a small animal
_________a small boat
_________not happy
_________past tense of to leave
_________a place to keep bad people. They can't get out of it.
_________ when the sailors on a ship don't listen to their captain
_________(verb) to come out of a boat onto the land
Sentences

"I know, Peter," he said _____ly.  "The _____________ for __________ is death."
Peter Heywood _______ed on a small island with some __________, Captain Edwards and the Pandora's sailors.
"Be quiet, boy!"said Captain Edwards. "We're working hard now--the ship is ______ing.
Look behind you.  We have a wonderful _______ for you and your friends.
"We have a small _____, and some coats,  ______," Hall said. "That's all."
The _______ was seven metres long, and there were nineteen men in it.
Some officers kept ______ on the ship.
Then we ________ for Jamaica, and then back to old England.
The _____ and ______s were _______ all night, so no one could sleep.
Christian and the sailors watched him from the back of the ship, then they opened a bottle of ____ and laughed.
The opposite of the ocean is the ________.
There were _______s for the next two weeks.
You're my second _________, but all you ________s take my things!
"Where is your ship?" they asked.
"It _____," Bligh said.

At midday they ate five small coconuts and drank some rum, and they ate some ____ breadfruit in the evening.

Please __________ your pencil off of the floor.

Every hour, Blight held a long______ over the side.

"Be quiet, man!" someone _______ed.

The islanders killed one man with ______s.

There are many hard _____s in the ground.

They couldn't ______ because of the chains on their arms.

Knights carry a long ________.

"________ the coats into the sea," Bligh said. "Quick."
The men _____ the coats into the sea just like Captain Bligh had said.

Please _____ a knot to keep the ropes together, and then ________ the ropes to keep them separate.

The prisoner had to go to a _______ to decide the punishment.

"Thank you, Captain," Otoo said.  "You are _________ here."

In the sea, he held on to some _____.

"Er....well, yes, sir....I mean...." Peter Heywood stopped.  He was ________ and afraid.

I often __________ about ghosts.

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