WALT read and summarise ideas about Journeys.

T-Shaped Reading Unit- Journeys

Write answers to these questions after you have read each text.

These words may help you to reflect on kinds of journeys:  journey, quest, exploration, voyage, trip, trek, excursion, expedition, pilgrimage, mission.

	What kind of journey has taken place?   Explain.	What was the purpose of this journey?	What challenges did the character face?
Kensuke’s Kingdom	Voyage, because it is a journey by sea.	They wanted a new experience. They also wanted to travel around the world, and they had no jobs anymore.	Rough seas and they had to eat the same food. Stomach cramps. Their dog fell off the boat.
Iris and Dogstar	A voyage, because they are going across the sea/going on a journey by sea.	To be able to see new things and go to new places.	Really rough seas.  3 meter swells. Cramped spaces. Spewing a lot. Tired. Can't sleep.
Not so normal	A spaceship. He landed on earth, and lost his spaceship.	To assess the resources on earth and maybe invade with some other aliens.	Hunger, tired, cold, he had to fit in, he had to find his spaceship, he had to wait for his spaceship to come out of the cows behind.
Underground Explorers	Exploration, because they're exploring the cave underground.	They’ve gone on a trip to prove the bulmer cave system is much larger than previously thought.	Cold sleeping spaces, need to rely on green dye, the connection of dye was weak and people still had nagging doubts that a connection could exist, the green dye project needs to be done again, if anything goes wrong there’s no cellphone coverage, help can sometimes be days away, water, mount owen is ever changing, pits, wind, digging, small spaces, snow, icicles, weather,high water problems and passages.