Courage and Survival.

Courage and Survival 

This unit written for grades 6 - 9, uses novels to show how people have shown great courage to survive catastrophes in their lives.
The novels used are set in time periods from the  Eighteenth to the Twentieth Centuries and tell of surviving an epidemic, a shipwreck, a plane crash, war and its aftermath and a volcanic explosion.
The unit consists of novel studies for seven novels, work sheets for comprehension, activities involving creative writing, research, history, geography, art and drama.  Also included are a set of activity cards that can be used for any novel pertaining to this topic.  The unit also contains suggestions for using the novels, evaluation sheets, a list of other novels that could be used and an answer key.   (75 pages) 

Includes: Robinson Crusoe, Fever 1793, Island of the Blue Dolphins, The Cay,  After the War, Hatchet, Memory Boy.