Adventure

By Shannon Carey  GLOG : [|Gulliver's Travels] By Jonathan Swift This classic novel is told in four adventures of Lemuel Gulliver – the first he is a giant, the second he encounters giants, the third a floating island, and the fourth a land of horses. The stories provide a journey for students to other lands but also allow them to look at the satirical side of Swift in his attempt to highlight trivial things in society. By Jonathan Swift The graphic novel adaptation to Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels.
 * Theme: Adventure **
 * Gulliver’s Travels **
 * ISBN-13: ** 978-0746089033
 * Gulliver’s Travels – Graphic Novel Adaptation **
 * ISBN-13: ** 978-8190782975

By Jerry Spinelli This is a story of boys whose parents die tragically, leave him with his unloving uncle which leads to him running away. He reaches a town divided by race and struggles to make sense of the divide. He encounters various relationships including one with a bison family at the zoo. Magee searches for a place to call home while teaching others about racial boundaries and prejudice.
 * Maniac Magee **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">ISBN-13: **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 978-0316809061

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">ISBN: 9781933390802 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">This Choose Your Own Adventure story leads the reader to a journey into the forest only to discover a tree of owls with magical powers. The reader chooses one of the 9 different path that most excites them and journey into the world of the magical owls.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 21px;">Owl Tree: Choose Your Own Adventure **

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">By Paul Dowswell <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">This novel tells the story of a 13 year old boy’s journey on a war ship as a “powder monkey” assisting the gun crew on a warship. Sam Witchall learns the ropes of the sea, war, enemies, shipwrecks in the 1800s. Although this is a fiction novel, there are many historical facts in this book that would entice readers to further research.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 21px;">Powder Monkey: Adventures of a Young Sailor **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">ISBN-13: **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 978-1582347486

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">By John Krakauer <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">This is a non-fiction adventure story about a young man who graduates from college and begins a journey across North America with little possessions. He grew up in an affluent household, but decide to give everything up in search of himself. Christopher McCandless changes his name, travels meeting new people and learning survival after disappearing from those who know him. His journey ends after being stranded in the wilderness and poisoned after eating a plant that is not meant for consumption.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 21px;">Into the Wild **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">ISBN-13: **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 978-0385486804

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Director: Sean Penn 2007 <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">ASIN: B000ZN802W
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 21px;">Into the Wild **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Movie: **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Website **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">: [|**http://www.christophermccandless.info/intothewild.html**]

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">By Maurice Sendak <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">This picture book takes the reader on an adventure with a little boy who does not want to listen to his mother and gets sent to bed without dinner. He disappears on an adventure into the forest that grows in his room where he meets up with the Wild Things. The illustrations tell more of a story than the words in this picture book allowing the reader into the imagination of a child.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 21px;">Where the Wild Things Are **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">ISBN-10: **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;"> 0060254920

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">This activity can be used to encourage students to comprehend their reading through inquiry and collaboration. Independently they choose quotations that describe the main idea of the text, then they collaborate in groups to formulate a “quiz” about their reading that other groups will answer. By the end of this lesson, students will have a better understanding of what to focus on in their reading and how to ask good questions.
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 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 21px;">Student Made Quiz **

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">After reading an adventure story, students would choose a destination and then write about their journey. They would provide details of the means of travel, food availability, necessities, historical significance, problems they might encounter (ie – war, climate, transportation, food), etc. Students would research their destination as well as the geographic locations they would travel through to get to their destination. Students would create a poster project to highlight their journey as well as write a description of their journey.
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 21px;">Plan an Adventure **

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">In a literature circle students will read a Choose Your Own Adventure story. Students will discuss the elements of the story to begin the process of creating their own Choose Your Own Adventure. They will collaborate as a group to begin their story focusing on characters, setting, plot, conflict. Students will then individually create their own endings to their story.
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 21px;">Choose Your Own Adventure **