The Expeditioners' literature guide offers exciting curriculum connections with enrichment and extension for your reading of this exciting adventure set in a future world with steampunk machines. It will provide opportunities to collaborate, problem solve, and build skills! It includes 40 pages of interdisciplinary activities formulated as worksheets PLUS a 53-slide interactive Jeopardy-type game.

Activities in the Kids Wings Unit for The Expeditioners include:

• Pre-Reading Discussion Cards
• Explorers and Adventurers
• Exploring the Cover of the Bookas a Word Artist
• 3-page Readers’ Theater Introduction: The Man with the Clockwork Hand 
• Preparing Your Intellectual Tools-Journaling
• Vocabulary by Chapters
• Vocabulary Tic-Tac-Toe
• Making Connections, A Pre- and Post-Reading Discussion Guide 
• Character Comparisons
• What’s Real? What’s Fantasy? Research to Check
• Steampunk and Non Sequitir
• Prologue - Chapters 1 and 2, Multiple Choice & Short Answer Comprehension
• The Puzzling Clues, a Logic Puzzle
• Visualizing the Story, Pages 46-93
• Characters and Plot, Crossord Puzzle
• Raleigh and the Escape,Chapters 18 and 19, Comprehension
• Trouble on the Way, Chapters 20-24, Comprehension
• Summarizing, Chapters 25-27, Multiple Choice
• The Cave: Vehicles of Plot That Move the Story Forward
• The Canyon: Vehicles of Plot That Move the Story Forward, 2 pages
• The End: Vehicles of Plot That Move the Story Forward
• Research CAVES
• Discussion and Writing Prompts
• Answer Pages
• Plus, a BONUS Interactive Jeopardy-type Game

Language warning: There is considerable cursing in the story.