I was asleep on the second floor of our narrow, gabled green house in Willemstad, on the island of Curaçao, the largest of the Dutch islands just off the coast of Venezuela. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. Analyze how a drama’s or poem’s form or structure (e.g.These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community.Analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact (e.g., how setting shapes the characters or plot).Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text provide an objective summary of the text.Analyze how a particular sentence, chapter, scene, or stanza fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the theme, setting, or plot.

Describe how a particular story’s or drama’s plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution.Determine a theme or central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.Type of Activity: Plot Diagrams and Narrative Arcs Common Core Standards Type of Assignment Individual, Partner, or Group Phillip returns to life as normal, but he never forgets his friend and protector, Timothy.ĭifficulty Level 3 (Developing to Mastery) Three operations later, he regains his sight. After the hurricane, he rebuilds a brush pile for a signal fire and lights it when he hears a plane flying overhead.Īfter a pilot spots Phillip's signal fire, a ship is sent to rescue him and he is reunited with his parents. Phillip buries Timothy and continues to live on the cay, using the survival skills that Timothy taught him. They survive the hurricane, but the storm weakens Timothy and he dies just a few hours later. Timothy is prepared for it and secures their knives and fish hooks, then ties Phillip and himself to a tree. Timothy teaches Phillip how to get food, water, and fire in spite of his blindness. Gradually, however, Phillip learns to appreciate Timothy and the two work together to survive on the island. A few days later, Phillip loses his sight as a result of his head injury.Īfter landing on a deserted cay, Phillip and Timothy struggle to get along due to Phillip's anger and racism. When Phillip wakes up after being hit on the head by debris, he finds himself on a raft in the middle of the ocean with an old, black man and a cat. for safety reasons, their ship is torpedoed by Germans. When Phillip and his mother attempt to return to the U.S. Life in Curaçao has become more dangerous now that the second world war has started and the Germans have begun attacking the oil refineries on the island. Phillip and his parents are Americans living on the Dutch island of Curaçao in the Caribbean Sea.

The Cay by Theodore Taylor