DRTA for Pirates Past Noon
Before Reading
Pirates Past Noon is the title: What do you think this story might be about?
Look at the cover, what do you see?
Let's read and see what it is about.
Stop 1 (page 1 to 3)
Where are Jack and Annie going?
What does Mysterious mean on page 1? (read sentence)
Tell me about the medallion and bookmark.
What did we just learn about Jack?
Stop 2 (page 4 to 7)
Tell me about the tree house.
What have we learned about the books?
What about the Pennsylvania book?
Who is the M person?
Stop 3 (page 8 to 10)
What happened?
Stop 4 (page 11 to 15)
What does the word horizon mean?
What was seen on the horizon?
Where are they? How do you know?
Tell me about the flag.
Stop 5 (page 16 to 20)
Do you know the story of Peter Pan? Are there pirates in Peter Pan?
What does Jack's book say about Pirates? (p. 16)
What does the word raided mean?
What did Jack read about the pirate flag? (p. 17)
Why were Jack and Annie running?
Stop 6 (page 21 to 26)
Tell me about the pirates.
On page 22 it says that the pirate held the children like kittens (read the sentence). What does this mean.
This is a sample of a simile.
There is another one on page 26. (read it--howled like wolves). What does this mean?What are the pirates looking for? What did they find?
Vile means something awful. Booty is stuff a pirate steals. So on p. 26 when Cap'n Bones says that's vile booty, what does he mean?
What do they think of books?
Stop 7 (page 27 to 32)
What does lubbers mean? (p.27) Look up in pirate dictionary. not good at sailing.
What does doom mean? (p. 28)
Tell me about the map. Who reads it? Why?
Notice the spelling of Kidd. What does this tell us?
What does the map say?
Stop 8 (page 33 to 46)
What does hoist mean? (p. 34)
What did Jack's book say about the treasure?
What did Annie notice?
What is a gale? (p. 43)
What was the plan Annie and Jack came up with? Did it work?
What does ignore mean? (p. 46)
Stop 9 (page 47 to 54)
An omen is a sign telling of the future, it is like magic. What does the sentence on page 48 mean? (omen--read it)
What is a mutineer? (p. 48) (read the sentence) Why did Cap'n Bones call them that?
On page 49 it says that even in the dreary light, the medallion was shining. What does this mean? (dreary)
What does it mean to say on page 49 that the rain fell in buckets? This is an idiom, a figurative saying that means something different that the actual meaning of the words.
What happened to Jack and Annie?
Stop 10 (page 55 to 58)
Tell me about Polly.
Stop 11 (page 59 to end)
Who is the M person?
What is a magician? an enchantress? (p. 60)
What is her mission?
What is a scribe? (p. 61)
Read the sentence on page 63 (dismay). What does this mean?
On page 67 there are two similes (something like something else). Can you find them? What do they mean?
At the end of the story, where is the medallion?
Do you think there will be another book?