The raft book report

The class is assigned any science fiction book to read over a four week period. I pushed the raft into the reeds along the rivers edge, then tied it to the dock so it wouldnt drift away. Now i only mentioned where i read this book because the raft is about an airplane ride gone wrong. I was gobbling up the book and finished it in one sitting. Please feel free to contribute by creating new articles or expanding existing ones. To ask other readers questions about the raft, please sign up.

Reporter robert trumbulls book the raft tells the story of harold dixon, tony pastula and george aldrich. On her flight back to midway the cargo plane hits nasty weather, and goes down. I wish i could tell you more, but i cant do that without spoiling anything. The conflict in this book is pretty obvious, shes in a plane crash and stuck in the middle of the ocean with only a raft and a few kind of useless supplies. These criticisms said, i enjoyed the book highly but i think the raft is the more memorable title of the two. Robie is frustrating as a protagonist and it is i admit, difficult to root for her at first. We are currently maintaining 1,610 pages 411 articles. The main character of the book is a girl called robie and is an experienced explorer and is visiting her aunt in honolulu.

Hanging out in honolulu with her aunt is a far cry from midway atoll where her scientist parents work. The airplane crashes and the main protagonist ends up having to survive using only a raft and max. Young nickys resentment at having to spend all summer out in the country with grandma changes to wonder when he finds a raft on the nearby rivera raft that is not only decorated with mysterious animal portraits, but seems, somehow, to attract wildlife. Book reports are automatically updated by cyberbot i last run. Bodeens third young adult novel, the raft, opens with robie, the protagonist, visiting her aunt in hawaii during one of her many breaks from the small island where robie lives. The teacher notes are great and i like the selections the students have. But anyways in parts during the book he tells robie about his life in. Wikipedia books are maintained by the wikipedia community, particularly wikiproject wikipedia books. The raft by jim lamarche lesson plans and activities. Raft is the first book in a series of 5 that span the life of the universe, from the big bang all the way to the end. The raft book by jim lamarche is a great story to help teach the appreciation of new things, people, and most importantly, nature and all its beauty. I lean toward the books written by people still alive and they dont need to be famous.

Starting in the beginning, the man grabbed her, then the plane crashed, then she was thrown out of the downed plane by max to save her life, and finally max had to pick her up and put her in the raft saving her a second time. They had a rubber raft and little else because the plane sank so quickly. As a survival tale, this is both engaging and full of scary factoids and frightening possibilities. Wikipedia books can also be tagged by the banners of any relevant wikiprojects with classbook. Robie, 15, lives with her family on the midway atoll, a group of islands in the middle of the pacific.

This book is about a girl whose plane crashes in the middle of the ocean. Raft is a writing strategy that helps students understand their roles as writers, the audience they will address, the varied formats for writing, and the topic theyll be writing about. Read your raftcard to figure out what youre asked to do. They have a bag of candy and very little water between them. Heres what teachers are saying i love this for independent reading. A correspondent s report on southeast asia, he won the overseas press club s cornelius ryan award in. Mi6 design team, newstime magazine reporter, herod sayle, authorillustrator and a movie critic your kids will love reliving the major events in this. Navy can afford only a brief search before giving the men up as dead. Check out a raftbook from our classroom raft books.

Book this book does not require a rating on the projects quality scale. This bibliography was generated on cite this for me on tuesday, april 5, 2016. The author pulls you into the book by the first sentence. Robie is pulled aboard a raft by max, who is injured and slipping in and out of consciousness. Reading for fun a juicy memoir memoirs or biographies are possibly my favorite kind of nonfiction books to read. When she has to get to midway in a hurry after a visit with her aunt in hawaii, she gets on the next cargo flight at the last minute. Reread the book,concentrating on what parts youre going to use in your project. Your kids will love reliving the major events in this fastpaced story by assuming these different roles. And one look at the cover will suggest that another bite of that fat laden steak is wellworthwhile. The airplane crashes and the main protagonist ends up having to.

The theme of survival is present throughout the raft. Bodeen this study guide consists of approximately 43 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of the raft. First, read thebook just for fun, just to enjoy the story. My favorite part of the book is when robbie freaked out on having to jump out of. The raft guide written and maintained by the players. The central concern of lord of the flies is the conflict between two competing impulses that exist within all human beings. In the raft and on the island, she could no longer run away from problems, but she had to deal with them as they came. Trumbull retells the story of 3 aviators whose plane went down in the pacific. This is a wikipedia book, a collection of articles which can be downloaded electronically or ordered in print.

If you are tenderhearted or unable to read about suffering, especially when it comes to animals, then steer clear of this one. Apr 30, 2000 lamarche little oh, 1997 builds on childhood memories for this magical tale of artistic awakening. We fell asleep with visions of weapons of mass destruction dancing in our heads. The raft summary and study guide supersummary, a modern alternative to sparknotes and cliffsnotes, offers highquality study guides for challenging works of literature. Shes taken the flight from honolulu to the midway atoll, a group of pacific islands where her parents live, many times. Even though the majority of the book is spent in a raft, bodeens pacing.

He decided to prove his theory by duplicating the legendary voyage. The external conflict is about robie is facing mother nature both on the sea and also the island. Her first young adult novel the compound was released in 2008 and recently won the 2011 maryland blackeyedsusan award. The raft that becomes her support contains some useful items, but with the only other survivor almost comatose, it is clear that robie is pretty much on her own. I seem to never be disappointed with a book from this list. These are the sources and citations used to research the raft of the medusa. Ive searched all over the web for anything that can help me understand the ending. Lamarche little oh, 1997 builds on childhood memories for this magical tale of artistic awakening. There is even a movie based on this book, but i couldnt find the book or the movie at either our city or county library. Her aunts friend, who is to check on robie every day while her aunt is away, is not able to do so. She ran into many challenges while she was on the island. The perfect book to read while solidifying in subzero weather is the raft by robert trumbull. Sep 26, 2012 these criticisms said, i enjoyed the book highly but i think the raft is the more memorable title of the two.

Shes taken the flight from honolulu to the midway atoll, a group of pacific islands w. Robert trumbull was born in chicago in 1912 and graduated from the university of washington at seattle. There were so many different challenges that robie faced. The raft is a book about 15yearold robie mitchell who must stay at her aunts apartment in honolulu, hawaii, until she returns.

All the while, birds fl ew over my head, every now and then swooping down to the raft as if it were a friend. This sample essay in mla style under the title behind the scenes at the museum by kate atkinson is written on a famous novel that won whitbread book of the year award. A simple airplane trip becomes a harrowing struggle for survival in this tense offering from bodeen the gardener. For bugs and suggestions concerning citation bot, report them to smith609. Max pulls her onto the raft, and thats when the real terror begins. Bodeen includes detailed chapter summaries and analysis covering 57 chapters, as well as several more indepth sections of expert. As i started reading this book, i worried about two things happening. The lead is a reaction of robbie looking a mean with a needle in his hand. Whether it was a filling at the dentist or an endofterm physics test, finding out things that were worse helped me deal with new challenges. Other kids got bedtime stories about fairies and dogs. Mi6 design team, newstime magazine reporter, herod sayle, authorillustrator and a movie critic. Her second ya the gardener was featured on good morning america as a best summer teen read, and her third ya the raft will be released in summer 2012. This was how she was able to stay alive because she was dealing with problems as they happened. Inspired in part by his own childhood, this gorgeous picture book from jim lamarche, the beloved illustrator of a story for bear and the elves and the shoemaker, tells the story of one stubborn boys unexpectedly wonderful summer on the river this is an imaginationsparking story about appreciating the simple, natural joys of the world and the people in it, and about discovering and.

Great cover spolier alert this story will spur some great dialog in any class. This book report raft has students caught up in the action of the stormbreaker story by playing different roles. The raft is an amazing book with a lot of twists and a huge twist at the end. Stephanie is the awardwinning author of the elizabetis doll series of picture books, as well as several others. Shes taken the flight from honolulu to the midway atoll, a group of pacific islands where her parents live. I recommend this book to those readers with a tough stomach who dont mind reading about harsh realities.

Its just robie, the pilot, and max, a copilot shes never met till this flight, on board. He worked as a reporter for the honolulu advertiser from 1933 to 1943 but began writing for the new york times in 1941, serving during world war ii as the times war correspondent in the pacific theater until 1945. Pacific ocean resources are stretched thin following the destruction at pearl harbor that led america into war a month earlier. Created by ninth grade students as part of a class project. But what isnt so obvious are the conflicts inside the main conflict like the fact that she has no food or that the raft has a hole in it, maybe sharks. Theme overview plot to survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself george orwell robie. Intrigued by polynesian folklore, biologist thor heyerdahl suspected that the south sea islands had been settled by an ancient race from thousands of miles to the east, led by a mythical hero, kontiki. By using this strategy, teachers encourage students to write creatively, to consider a topic from a different perspective, and to gain practice writing for different audiences. Report bugs and suggestions for improvements to cyberpower678. I chose this book because i couldnt find a book to read so ms.

Bodeen paula perez 1st period i choose this movie trailer to present, is to give the image of how the characters and events look like. This sample with mla citing tips is useful for beginners who want to develop their writing skills and get high grades. Raft is both baxters debut novel and the first book in the xeelee sequence, although the xeelee are not present. The raft of the medusa art history bibliographies cite. That said, i just finished reading alan cummings memoir not my fathers son. The series is called the xeelee sequence and was written by stephen baxter, a british science fiction author whose earlier work like raft is fairly scarce in the u. Kontiki is the record of an astonishing adventure a journey of 4,300 nautical miles across the pacific ocean by raft. Novel series raft is a book report option designed to creatively assess novel series, pushing students beyond simple recall to synthesis, evaluation and application levels of understanding. I just finished this book and i think im losing it. Nicky has to spend the summer at his grandmas, which he is reluctant to do, but one day a raft shows up and changes nickys perspective on everything. When a plane carrying three airmen fails to return from its bombing mission on january 16, 1942, the u. This book will tell you how to find your way to the landwithout instruments and.

Presentation or lecture press release religious text report software website. Raft is a 1991 hard science fiction book by british writer stephen baxter. This book is a story about survival, its definitely not a candycoated version of it either. Once i found out something worse, then it was easier to deal with.