Tom Appleby Convict Boy - First Fleet History Narrative - Jackie French

Tom Appleby, Convict Boy is the perfect novel to accompany your Year 4 Australian Curriculum History unit.



Book Description:
A story of transportation and life in a new world. At the tender age of eight, chimney sweep Tom Appleby is convicted of stealing and sentenced to deportation to Botany Bay. As one of the members of the First Fleet, he arrives in a country that seemingly has little to offer - or little that the English are used to, anyway. Luckily, not long after Tom's arrival in the colony, the fair and kind Sergeant Stanley decides to take on Tom as a servant. Together Tom, Sergeant Stanley and his son, Rob, build a house, set up an orchard and a vegetable garden for themselves - and thrive, unlike many others in the new colony. Jackie French weaves Tom's story in with the story of the development of Australia. She tells of a colony that, despite its natural abundance, cannot offer what the colonists want - familiarity. While the people's health is better than it ever was in England, their morale is low as they wait for news from home. Ages 10+ (From Harper Collins)


Contains:
• One page comprehension worksheet for every 5 chapters (10 pages)
• Three pages of ‘early finisher’ worksheets - crossword, word search, word scramble and anagrams.
• Title page for booklet


Australian Curriculum Links:
English

• Year 3 - Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to evaluate texts by drawing on a growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features (ACELY1680)

• Year 4 - Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning to expand content knowledge, integrating and linking ideas and analysing and evaluating texts (ACELY1692)

• Year 5 - Use comprehension strategies to analyse information, integrating and linking ideas from a variety of print and digital sources (ACELY1703)

• Year 6 - Use comprehension strategies to interpret and analyse information and ideas, comparing content from a variety of textual sources including media and digital texts (ACELY1713)
History

• Year 4 - Stories of the First Fleet, including reasons for the journey, who travelled to Australia, and their experiences following arrival. (ACHHK079)

• Year 5 - The nature of convict or colonial presence, including the factors that influenced patterns of development, aspects of the daily life of the inhabitants (including Aboriginal Peoples and Torres Strait Islander Peoples) and how the environment changed. (ACHHK094)