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
- Tanzanian women learning
- The coastal city of Dar es Salaam
- A Tanzanian village
- Tanzanian wildlife
Activity 4: Map the Chapter
- Find the Suez Canal, linking Suez and Port Said, through which the boys' mail steamer passed on the way from Tanzania to England.
- Which two seas does the Suez Canal link?
- In which country is the Suez Canal located?
- What is the name of the peninsula adjacent to the Suez Canal?
Activity 5: Map the Chapter on a Globe
- Repeat the applicable mapwork from Activity 4 on a three-dimensional globe.