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Jan. 4, 2008
Writing Workshop Lesson 14
Nutshell Summary:
Josh and his friends ride the rapids in a leaky raft and survive.
Scene:
“They’re after us!” shouted Josh. “Can’t we row any faster?” The natives of Piura, a jungle on the coast of South America were chasing them down the Amazon river.
Josh and his friends had found a raft tangled in the bushes on the shore. The only problem was that it was leaky. The natives had a strong wooden canoe and were gaining on the children!
“Were paddling as fast as we can!” yelled Mathew. “Look up ahead. There are the rapids that dad warned us about. We can’t get through them!” Mary took a break from blowing up the raft and looked for the rapids. Her cheeks were as red as a ripe tomato. She had been given the job of trying to blow up the raft as they went along.
“Do you need help rowing?” she asked.
“No, we can do it. You need to get back to your blowing or we are going to sink!” answered Josh. “We might anyway with these rapids,” he added under his breath.
Just then the raft snagged on a rock, and lost all its air. The raft went under the foaming water never to be seen again. All the kids went under too!
Josh managed to fight his way back up to the surface and grab a rock for support. So did Mathew. They both looked franticly around for Mary. Suddenly Josh saw her dress swirl up to the surface. Josh dived under the water and grabbed Mary’s skirt.
Just then Mathew remembered why they had been in the raft in the first place: the natives were after him! He glanced back and to his horror, they were almost 5 yards away but they were having trouble getting the canoe through the rocks.
When Josh came up with Mary, they huddled together on the rock trying to catch their breath before moving on. Just then, Mary saw the natives canoe tip over and all of the men spill out! Now that the canoe had no one in it, it just went along with the water. When it reached the children, Josh jumped in pulling Mary along, and motioned to Mathew to do the same.
“We can’t just leave them there in the water!” exclaimed Mary starting to climb out of the boat. Mathew jerked her back in by her skirt.
“You can’t go back there and help them! We’ve got to get away. Plus they live here. They should be able to save themselves.” Mathew was right. From their spot in the canoe which was jammed in between two rocks, they could see very well. The natives were swimming towards shore! It didn’t take them long to reach it. Mary started to get out of the canoe again.
“What are you doing now?” asked Josh. “You aren’t going to swim to shore too are you?”
“No, I am going to get this canoe unstuck!” The boys quickly hopped out too, and helped her. Then they got back in and pushed off the rocks to steer themselves. Soon they reached calmer waters, and by paddling with their hands, they slowly made their way back to land. |
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Jan. 4, 2008 - I had to go fix and eat supper!
Oh...hmmm...do you want me to post Lesson 15? It's finished. :-)
And good news! I don't have jury duty this week, so I'll be able to get the LAST lesson finished. Will you be sad that the lessons are finished? Perhaps I can come up with some fun writing assignments that review the concepts learned.
Oh...and Book 3 is out NOW! AUGH! My marketing manager e-mailed and the publisher got the books a whole month early! As soon as I get my author copies I'll be mailing out the books to those of you who have won the various contests I've been holding off and on since last summer.
Edited by skmarlow on Jan. 4, 2008 at 8:09 PM