Activity 1: Narrate the Chapter
- Narrate the events aloud in your own words.
Activity 2: Study the Chapter Pictures
- Study the chapter pictures and describe how each relates to the story.
Activity 3: Observe the Modern Equivalent
- Examine the chapter setting in modern times: An enormous Nile perch (Lates niloticus) caught in Lake Victoria.
Activity 4: Map the Chapter
Find the following on the map of Africa:
- The eastern countries of Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, Burundi, and Tanzania
- Lake Victoria (unlabeled)
- The western countries of Sierra Leone and Liberia
- Find the countries of Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, Burundi, and Tanzania on the map of Tanzania.
- Find the location where the Kagera River empties into Lake Victoria at the border of Uganda and Tanzania.
Activity 5: Map the Chapter on a Globe
- Repeat the applicable mapwork from Activity 4 on a three-dimensional globe.