The Raft - Connections
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The Raft by Jim LaMarche
Lesson Plans by Ashley Trudeau
The Raft is a great story to help teach the appreciation of new things, people, and nature and all its beauty. Nicky has to spend the summer at his Grandma’s, which he is reluctant to do, but one day a raft shows up and changes Nicky’s perspective on everything!
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The Raft by Jim LaMarche Text Connections
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- Slide: 1
- TEXT
- Nicky loves spending time on the raft he found.
- Slide: 2
- TEXT
- TEXT CONNECTIONS
- In "The Adventure's of Huckleberry Finn", Huck Finn travels a river on his raft.
- Slide: 3
- TEXT
- There's nobody to play with. She doesn't even have a TV.
- "I felt tears starting again, but I blinked hard and looked out the window."
- Nicky did not want to spend the summer with his Grandma.
- Slide: 4
- SELF
- I'm not going!
- When I was little, I did not want to go to my Grandma's house.
- Slide: 5
- TEXT
- "I kept very still, they didn't seem to mind me watching. They played keep away with a small stone, then tug-of-war with a piece of rope. It was like they were showing off for me. They even let me feed them right out of my hand."
- Nicky describes a moment he had on the raft with otters.
- Slide: 6
- WORLD
- On the news, they talked about a zoo that had an otter exhibit and the otters could do fun tricks.
- Slide: 0
- Time to go to Grandma's