PROBLEM:

     0ne of the novels read by my tenth grade students is Walkabout by James Marshall.   During the reading of the novel, students write daily journal entries about their " walkabout and survival" in a location other than Australia which parallel the walkabout adventure of Mary and Peter, the characters who find themselves stranded on the Sturt Plain in Australia's isolated Northern Territory.   I have not required students to research information about the areas in which they have "stranded themselves"; therefore, their journal entries generally tend to lack descriptive and informative details.

NEW OBJECTIVES:

1. Students may use the internet links in order to incorporate facts on the indigenous people, the flora and fauna, the temperature, terrain etc., of the Amazon Rain Forest into their journal entries (An Amazon Netspedition).  
2. As a closure activity, students will write a "Walkabout" poem.

Additional Sites and Lesson Plans

1. An Amazon Adventure: information on the Amazon Rain Forest
2. Web Quest: the Rain Forest
3. Lesson plan for incorporating art and music as an after reading activity
4. Survival Expedition: Pack a "suitcase"
5. Lesson plan for exploring Societal and Personal Attitudes About Gender
6. Lesson plan for teachers and students Learn More About the Tropical Rain Forest
7. Home Page for An Australian Family

1. List of Recommended Literature (9-12)
2. Australian Literature
3. Adolescent Literature for Reluctant Male Readers
4. Catalogue List of Australian Book Titles
5. Walkabout by James Marshall
6. Spiritual Themes in Young Adult Books

1. Survival on Los Angeles Island ("Escape from LA")
2. A "Mazing" Tale of Survival