Chapter 22

Vocabulary to preview - skeptical, jovial, memento, interject, fatigue, balustrade, morose, undulating

Predictions and SOS

Follow-up Discussion Questions:
1. Describe the character of Charlotte. Give your impressions of her family.
2. If you were Charlotte, would you share your journal with your father? Do you agree with the way Charlotte’s father reacted to the journal?
3. Why did Charlotte decide to leave? Will Charlotte ever return to her parent's house?
4. Where is home to Charlotte?
5. What is a natural or unnatural girl? Does Charlotte's experience offer insights into today's young adult experience? How specifically?
6. Would you write a different ending? Are her parents being realistic? Is the ending believable? Why?
7. What clues did the author give that the novel would end this way?

Select any of the follow-up activities:

1. Quiz Time has questions for chapters 9-12.  Answer Key
2. Students may complete a Twist of Fate activity to expand critical thinking skills and cause and effect relationships. Provide each student with 10 4X6 index cards, scissors, and paste or glue.
3. Students may create a Venn diagram (graphic organizer) on character analysis in chapters 16-22.  Print page 14 from the Glencoe Literature Library.  Pages 15 and 16 have study questions, or copy back-to-back a printer-friendly version from this link.
4. There was a graphic organizer for lessons 1-5, and you may revisit this site to complete the second activity on character analysis.
5. Check vocabulary and comprehension after reviewing the underlined passages whole-group. This page has questions on chapter 22.
6. Students may read two sea poems and answer questions to make connections with our story.
7. Students may review several story elements with this summary worksheet.
8. Biopoems were developed to help writers to synthesize their learning about a subject—a person, place, thing, concept, or event. The Biopoem follows a pattern that makes it easier for beginning writers to complete as they play with ideas. This is to be used at the conclusion of The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle.
9. Literature and Writing... Understanding Details

In the final chapter, Avi provides many details about Charlotte’s life with her family. These details reveal much about her family and her feelings about being home. For example, when she removes her sailor clothing and puts on her old dress, Charlotte says, “I felt so much pinched and confined I found it difficult to breathe.” How does this detail reveal her attitude about returning to her family? Find other details that show what Charlotte’s family is like and what her attitude toward them is. Write a short explanation of the meaning of each detail.
10. Extending Your Response... Literature Groups

In groups, discuss the following issue: Should the crew be more supportive of Charlotte when she is falsely accused? Discuss why the crew members are tempted to believe Jaggery and why, even if they feel that Charlotte is innocent, they remain silent. For more insight into their actions, think about how the crew members treat Charlotte after the captain is dead.
11. Learning for Life

Imagine that Charlotte wants people to know the truth about Captain Jaggery’s behavior aboard the Seahawk. As the new captain of the ship, she must write an incident report and give it to the proper authorities. Write the report you believe Charlotte would write. Include details of all improper conduct.
12. Journal Activity

Writers often create fictional characters who, like real people, grow and change with each new experience.  Write about the changes in Charlotte’s beliefs and ideas over the course of the novel. What are her values at the beginning of the novel? How do her ideas change? Explain what people or incidents shape her ideas throughout the novel. Support your response with details from the novel.
13. This vocabulary lesson lets you type in the words that match the definitions and find out your score.
14. Taxonomy Overview Guide for connections to our story.