W.A.L.T: We are learning to read and summarise ideas about journeys.
T-Shaped Reading Unit- Journeys
Write answers to these questions after you have read each text.
These words may help you to reflect on kinds of journeys: journey, quest, exploration, voyage, trip, trek, excursion, expedition, pilgrimage, mission.
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What kind of journey
has taken place?
Explain.
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What was the
purpose of this
Journey?
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What challenges did
the character face?
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Kensuke’s Kingdom.
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A voyage because it
is a long journey by
sea.
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To experience what it
would be like to live
on a boat and travel
the world.
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Facing the big storms
while traveling on the
sailboat.
Washing up on an
island and trying to
find somewhere to
sleep, food and water.
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Iris and Dogstar.
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This journey is also a
voyage because it
takes days to get
from place to place
by water.
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To go fishing and
travel to Noumea
and spend time
with their family.
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They didn't get much
sleep. The rough seas
and getting sea sick.
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Not so normal.
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It is a mission
because it is
travelling from planet
to planet.
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To travel to Earth and
check the resources.
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A cow ate Normals
spaceship.
At the end of the story
Normal got squashed.
People were being
mean to him about his
name.
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Underground Explorers.
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This journey is an
exploration.
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To go underground
and prove that the
bulmer cavern is
bigger than they
thought.
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Sleeping in small
spaces and being in
the cold.
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