(Tune) Tuesday, November 10th

• Good morning, class, and welcome back from your extended weekend! I hope you all made the most of it

• No Homework tonight

• As you enter class, you should hear a song playing over the speakers. Please have a seat, open up your ELA A notebook, write today’s date and respond to the following:

• What type of vibe or mood does the music give off? How does it make you feel? What does it remind you of?

Today’s Learning Targets

• I have a better understanding of the setting of The Cay

• I reflected on what it would be like to have to fight for survival

• I can recall facts about WWII and the Caribbean

Siri, how do I get to those targets?

• Introductory PP and completion of skeletal notes

• Journal Entry- “Stranded”

• Exit slip- “One thing I learned today…”

Before we continue, I have a question for you…

•What do you know about WWII??

Background Information for The Cay

• Please put your name at the top of your skeletal notes

• These notes contain important background information that will help you better understand our novel

• During your journal entry, I will pass a hole puncher around for you to use

About the Author

The Cay was written by Theodore Taylor.

As a kid, enjoyed roaming and exploring fields, muddy creeks, and salt marshes --> Adventure-oriented

During Korean War, stationed in the Caribbean

About the Author continued…

Read an account about a small boy who was lost at sea after a German U-boat sank his ship

All these experiences inspired The Cay

 •Cay (noun): a low island made of sand or coral

World War II

Allies (U.S., France, Great Britain) vs. Axis (Germany, Italy, Japan)

War began in 1939 due to Germany invading Poland Following Pearl Harbor, December 7th, 1941, U.S. entered

the War on the side of the Allies

Other major events include The Holocaust, The Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Curacao, a Caribbean Island

To survive during WW II, England needed supplies from North America.

Curacao, the Caribbean island in The Cay, produced gasoline and oil needed for war

Curacao, a Caribbean Island

Large tankers transported these resources from the island across the Atlantic Ocean to England

Curacao - Ruled by Dutch, but African and Caribbean in culture

German U-Boats

German Submarines - "Unterseeboote“

These U-Boats destroyed the supply ships using torpedoes

During the war, they sunk over 5,000 ships

Journal Entry

Please respond to the following prompt in your ELA A notebook. Write in complete sentences, and be prepared to share what you write.

“If you were stranded on an island alone, how would you survive? How would you find or make shelter? How would you feed yourself?”

If you finish early, use the opportunity to read from your SSR book

Closure

• What is one thing you learned today about WWII, Curacao, the Caribbean, or anything else involving the background information for The Cay?

• Reminder: No HW• We will begin reading the novel tomorrow!