CHAPTER 1 20000 Leagues under the Sea - Jules Verne - Teacher Resources for Homeschooling

CHAPTER 1 20000 Leagues under the Sea - Jules Verne - Teacher Resources for Homeschooling 

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CHAPTER 1 - " A Shifting Reef" 

• VOCABULARY 

~ phosphorescent
~ apparition
~ phenomena
~ archipelago 
~ zest
~ afoul
~ impugn
~ cetacean
~ retrograde
~ prodigy
~ brusquely
~ isosceles triangle


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• archipelago (  island group or island chain, a cluster of islands. The word archipelago is derived from the Greek ἄρχι- – arkhi- ("chief") and πέλαγος – pélagos ("sea") acc to wikipedia
• apparitionghost,delusion,spirit,illusion,phantom,appearance
  
  20000 Leagues under the Sea - Jules Verne Quote 
  Jules Verne - Chapter 1
  The human mind is ever hungry to believe in new and marvellous phenomena, and so it is easy for us to understand the vast excitement produced throughout the whole world by this supernaturalapparition.
• afoulamiss,defectively,wrongly
  ( Youngsters could stay up all night, every night in the summer, withoutrunning afoul of the law.)
  20000 Leagues under the Sea - Jules Verne Quote 
  Jules Verne - Chapter 1
  " Now either the sand reef had been submitted to the intermittent eruption of a geyser or theGovernor  Higginson had fallen afoul of some aquatic mammal, until then unknown, which could spout from its blowholes pillars of water mixed with air and vapour. ..." 
• brusquelyin a lively manner, enthusiastically, briskly, lively, energetically
• 
  20000 Leagues under the Sea - Jules Verne Quote
  Jules Verne - Chapter 1" The public demanded brusquely that at any cost the seas must be relieved of the presence of this formidable cetacean.
• impugnchallenge, criticize, attack, call into question, cast doubt upon,dispute
  to impugn  is to dispute the truth, validity, orhonesty of; to
  
  20000 Leagues under the Sea - Jules Verne Quote
  Jules Verne - Chapter 1" The last-named gentleman, whose good faith no  one could impugn, stoutly affirmed that in the year 1857, from the ship Castillan, he had seen this enormous serpent, which until that time
• phenomenon
  rare occurence, wonder, marvel, rarity, anomaly , peculiarity20000 Leagues under the Sea - Jules Verne Quote
  Jules Verne - Chapter 1" To be sure, light- minded people everywhere jested about the phenomenon, but grave and practical nations, such as England, America, and Germany, were inclined to treat the affair more seriously. ... "
• phosphorescence
  20000 Leagues under the Sea - Jules Verne Quote
  Jules Verne - Chapter 1" For some time prior to the opening of our story ships at sea had been met by an enourmous object, a long thing shaped like a spindle and infinitely larger and more rapid in its movement than a whale. At times it was phosphorescent. .. "
  
  Difference Fluorescence and Phosphorescence 
  ~ Definition Phosphorescence and Videos to explain phosphorescence v fluorescence 
  http://lifelearningwithlivingbooks.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/phosphorescence-versus-fluorescence.html
• zestflavour, taste, interest , relish, keen enjoyment
  
  20000 Leagues under the Sea - Jules Verne Quote 
  Jules Verne - Chapter 1
  " The cheaper magazines replied delightedly and with inexhaustible zest, .... " 

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• MARINE CREATURES

~ Kraken
~ Whales
~ sea serpent
~ Moby Dick

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KRAKEN
http://www.unmuseum.org/kraken.htm

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• SCIENCE/MATH

~ nautical leagues
~ longtitude
~ latitude
~ knots
~ isosceles triangle

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 isosceles triangle

Isosceles Triangle ( Chapter 1 Jules Verne 20000 leagues under the sea) 

( http://www.mathsisfun.com/definitions/isosceles-triangle.html) 



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• MAPWORK

~ Aleutian Islands

~ Cape Clear

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• CHARACTER STUDIES

~ Bishop Eric Pontoppidan 

~ Carolus Linnaeus

~ Paul Heggede

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20000 Leagues under the Sea - Jules Verne Chapter Teacher Resources for Homeschooling