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Destination Planet Earth

By Ron Jolly

WALT: Identify the key ideas within a story

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Clarify:

What does the word rhetorical mean?

What does neglected mean?

What is a verandah?

Question:

What do you know about Rune’s home planet?

How did the attitudes of the boys change after seeing the spaceship?

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Predict:

What do you think would happen next in the story?

Summarise:

Write a summary of the story, including the beginning, middle and end.

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Create:

Choose a create option for the list below:

  1. Write in the perspective of Luke, Nic or Joe. What are you thinking/feeling/seeing as the spaceship arrives
  2. Draw an image of the spaceship and describe your picture. What technology does it possess?
  3. Create a comic strip illustrating the key moments of the story.