School Journal Part 3 Number 2 - 2005, Pages 8 - 14

Against the Wind by Cheri Pinner

WALT: answer questions using full sentences

Activity 1 - Reading Response - Monday

Answer these questions based on the story using full sentences.

1. Why was Yeye making the kite?

Because she was going to New Zealand

2. How were Yeye and Ai Mei related?

Yeye is Ai Mei’s grandfather

3. Why were Ai Mei’s parents at the Beijing Airport?

They were waiting for their flight to call out

4. What was the name of the kite?

Jin Long

5. Why was Ai Mei home sick when school started?

The school was much different than Beijing schools

6. Why did Ai Mei decide to bring Jin Long in on the first day she took

it out to fly?

Because it couldn’t fly properly

7. What did see on the kite when it landed at her feet?

A calligraphy

8. How was Ai Mei able to keep in touch with her grandfather in

China?

Emails

Activity 2 - Vocabulary - Tuesday

Make sentences with these words.

1. messages- I received two messages from my grandfather.

2. boring- It was boring at home.

3. understand- I understand that you are not from this country

4. weather-The weather is very hot.

5. upwards- My drive way is faced upwards.

6. pointed-I pointed at amazing stuff in the museum.

7. wished- I wished the best for my relatives.

9. confused-I was confused when there was three of me from the future.

10. different-I had different clothes for winter and summer.

Activity 3 - Punctuation - Wednesday

Write these paragraphs using correct punctuations.

At first  New Zealand was exciting  Ai Mei and her parents visited lots of new places before her father began his work at the university and her mother chose a house for them beside a park

Yeye would like the green and the space  thought Ai Mei when they had moved in

Activity 4 - Story Review - Thursday

Write a review of this story.Use the Story Review template.

Title:

Author:

This story is about...............A kite.........................

The characters in this story are.....Ai Mei, Yeye, The mother and the father......................

This story takes place ….............New Zealand................................

I liked this story because................It’s about kites....................

Activity 5 - Title Page - Friday

Design a Title Page for this story. Use Sumo Paint.

Supplementary Activity - Sunshine Online