Word Work
(p. 226) What does the word boasted mean? What words or phrases did you use from the text to help you determine the meaning?
Brag
What does William and Geoffrey decide to build?
A radio station
What is the name of William's PRIMARY school?
Wimbe
What is "an original model on which later versions are patterned and developed"
Prototype
What type of text is "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind"?
Memior
(p. 229) What does the phrase cassette player mean? Draw a picture of this item.
What project is William most excited about and why?
The Water Pump, because it would allow them to farm all year and have more harvest.
What does William use as the power dynamo on the windmill?
A bike
What has made it difficult to find firewood?
Deforestation
These are examples of what?
Cause and Effect
Problem Solution
Chronological
Text Structures
(p. 231) What does the word devising mean? What words or phrases did you use from the text to help you determine the meaning?
Planning, coming up with.
"I can't manage this thing. It feels stuck." (p. 232) What is William's mother referring to in this moment?
the water pump
What did William use to make a rubber valvue?
the sole of a woman's shoe (flat)
"In the afternoon we rummaged through our bag of parts and found two junker radios that didn't even have covers attached."
What does the word "rummaged" mean?
to sort through in an unorganized way
What is it called when you use words and phrases in the text to help you determine what a word mean?
context clues
(p. 233) What does the word burden mean? What words or phrases did you use from the text to help you determine the meaning?
heavy load, (literally or emotionally)
On page 227, William says "I battled the darkness by trying to keep a positive mindset."
What is the "darkness" he is referring to?
William is worried that "one day the windmill would no longer excite me, or it would become to difficult to maintain, and the maize rows or boozing dens would slowly swallow me up." (p.227)
What is William's last name?
Kamkwamba
Why was Geoffrey afraid that they were going to get arrested?
Because William and Geoffrey were playing around with the radio frequency for the government
"Now that I knew I wasn't going to school, the maize rows appeared like bars of my own prison."
What type of figurative language is this an example of? Why
Simile
Comparing two things using "Like"
Maize rows --> prison/prison bars
(p. 237) What does the word thrust mean? What words or phrases did you use from the text to help you determine the meaning?
push, move forcefully
"Someone had to save our women and trees, and I thought, why not me?"
What does this reveal about William's character?
He is determined
He is motivated
What did the villagers blame the famine on?
William's Windmill
"a gas containing methane that can be burned as a fuel, produced by dead plants and animals as they decay"
Is called what?
Biogas
What is the beginning part of a book called where the author previews some of the content that will be on the book, or provides background knowledge before the book begins?
Prologue