Journey to thr river sea
Introduction
start
PredicTionS
ead the title, back cover and first page of the story. Write down your predictions and put it in the little envelope you've been given.
Reflection journal pages 2-4
LEts complete the QUESTIONS on these pages
Summary of the story
Orphaned Maia lives in England at the Mayfair Academy for Young Ladies, a boarding school paid for by her parents’ trust fund. When Mr. Murray, her lawyer, informs her that she will be moving to Manaus, Brazil, to live with some distant cousins, she is thrilled. She imagines herself in a wonderland of colorful birds and “curtains of sweetly scented orchids trailing from the trees.” Her classmates are not so optimistic; they tell her it is a land of man-eating crocodiles and vicious Indian tribes.
Published in 2002, Journey to the River Sea is a children’s historical fiction novel by Eva Ibbotson. Set in the early 1900s, the story follows Maia, an English orphan who is sent to live with relatives in Brazil near the Amazon River. Ibbotson was a British novelist known for her imaginative adventure stories; Journey to the River Sea was written as a tribute to her late husband, a naturalist. The book won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize and was shortlisted for several other awards, including the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Award.
As Maia sails from England to Brazil with her governess, Miss Minton, she meets a fellow passenger who does not share her enthusiasm for their journey. Jimmy Bates is a boy known by his stage name Clovis King. He is travelling with the acting troupe run by his adoptive parents, but all he wants is to return to England and his foster mother. Maia promises that she will come to see his troupe’s play.
When Maia arrives in Brazil, she does, indeed, find the wonderland she envisioned. However, her new family leaves much to be desired. English-natives, Mr. and Mrs. Carter seem to hate the land they live in. They stay inside almost exclusively, fearing bugs and germs. Their children, twin girls named Beatrice and Gwendolyn, are selfish and spoiled and share their parents’ views of the country.
When the day of Clovis’s play arrives, naturally, the Carters wish to take their children to see the performers from their beloved England, but that does not include Maia. Although she is left at home, she sneaks out of the house and tries to walk to the theater. Soon she is lost, and she must rely on a kind Indian boy to show her the way. Clovis is wonderful in the performance of Little Lord Fauntleroy, but at a key moment, his voice begins cracking. The rest of the play is a disaster.
As the days pass, Maia begins to feel that she cannot stand life with the Carters for much longer. They keep her trapped inside and unable to explore the beautiful world around her. Even worse, they do not really care about her, but only about the monthly stipend they receive from Mr. Murray. Fortunately, Maia again encounters the Indian boy who helped her on the night of the play. She discovers that he is a half-British, half-Xanti Indian named Finn Tavener.
Currently, Finn is on the run from two men, Mr. Trapwood and Mr. Low (whom Maia nicknames “the crows”), who are searching for the heir to Westwood, the wealthy Tavener estate back in England. Finn has heard his father’s unhappy stories of living in Westwood, and so he is running from the crows who wish to force him to go there. Instead, Finn wants to sail down the Amazon river, which the locals call “the River Sea,” to look for the Xanti, his mother’s tribe.
Maia introduces Finn to Clovis, and the boys see an opportunity to help each other out. Clovis has run away from the acting troupe, but he lacks a way to return to England. The group hatches a plan: Clovis will pose as the Tavener heir and go to Westwood with the crows, while Finn will stay behind as Clovis and be free to search for his mother’s tribe. The plan goes off without a hitch, and Clovis departs for England.
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One day, Miss Minton leaves to pursue a new job as a governess with a Russian family. She intends to take Maia with her in a bid to remove her from the awful Carter household, but Maia is unaware of this. She is devastated, believing herself abandoned. When the twins accidentally start a fire that destroys the Carters’ house, the family is taken to the hospital, and Maia is left behind. Seizing the opportunity, she finds Finn and leaves with him on his adventure down the Amazon.
Meanwhile, in England, Clovis reunites with his foster mother, and she encourages him to reveal his true identity. He tries several times to tell Sir Aubrey, and when he finally manages it, Sir Aubrey is so shocked that he has a heart attack. Clovis eventually tells him that it was a joke, deciding to remain the Westwood heir.
Miss Minton soon returns, accompanied by her friend Professor Neville Glastonberry. When they find Maia missing, they pursue the pair down the Amazon, eventually finding them living with the Xanti tribe. For a while, all are happy, but one day, Maia sings for the tribe. Some nearby police hear her voice. Thinking her a captive, they burst in to save her, along with Miss Minton and the Professor. The trio returns to Manaus but not to England, having decided to stay in this beautiful country.
07:00
11:11
Read the first page and answer the following questions
+ PRESS ME
The characters
Mr. Carter
MAIA
Maia's guardian. He is a quiet and mysterious man. He spends his whole day in his messy office and when one day Maia lands in his office, she finds him obsessing over his collection of eyes from his office instead of rescuing his own family!
Loves music and adventures. Though her parents are no more, she has to now live in an unknown land with unknown people.
Mrs. Carter
Mr. Carter's wife. She doesn't seem to like Maia very much. She keeps comparing Maia with her twin girls. If Mr. Carter is obsessed with eye-balls, Mrs. Carter's obsession is insect repellents! She keeps buying various varieties of insect repellent and squirts every nook and corner of the house with them.
Miss Minton
Shares a good relationship with Maia, Miss Minton is her governess who treats her like her own child. She is strict, but witty; very intelligent and resourceful and she gives Maia a lot of books to read.
The characters
Finn Taverner
The twins - Gwendolyn and Beatrice Carter
A half- Indian (Xanti) and half- English boy. He helps Maia to cross the river and reach the theatre to watch Clovis's performance. Later, he becomes an integral part of her story. There is more to him than meets the eye.
Fair and pretty, always dressed in similar clothes, the twins turned out to be very different from how Maia imagined they would be. Not only did they consider her their enemy for some reason. they didn't like to go outdoors nor were they smart or funny.
Mr. Trapwood and Mr. Low
The two detectives, the "Crows" (always dressed in black) who are searching all over Manaus for a boy, whom they announce to be the son of late Bernard Taverner.
Clovis King
Clovis is the boy who became Maia's friend on the ship. He is an improverished boy actor who lived and worked in the acting company owned by the Goodleys. Since he is ill-treated by the Goodleys, he desparately wants to return to England, his home.
Read Chapters 1 and 2.
Home work!
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Journey to thr river sea
Introduction
start
PredicTionS
ead the title, back cover and first page of the story. Write down your predictions and put it in the little envelope you've been given.
Reflection journal pages 2-4
LEts complete the QUESTIONS on these pages
Summary of the story
Orphaned Maia lives in England at the Mayfair Academy for Young Ladies, a boarding school paid for by her parents’ trust fund. When Mr. Murray, her lawyer, informs her that she will be moving to Manaus, Brazil, to live with some distant cousins, she is thrilled. She imagines herself in a wonderland of colorful birds and “curtains of sweetly scented orchids trailing from the trees.” Her classmates are not so optimistic; they tell her it is a land of man-eating crocodiles and vicious Indian tribes.
Published in 2002, Journey to the River Sea is a children’s historical fiction novel by Eva Ibbotson. Set in the early 1900s, the story follows Maia, an English orphan who is sent to live with relatives in Brazil near the Amazon River. Ibbotson was a British novelist known for her imaginative adventure stories; Journey to the River Sea was written as a tribute to her late husband, a naturalist. The book won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize and was shortlisted for several other awards, including the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Award.
As Maia sails from England to Brazil with her governess, Miss Minton, she meets a fellow passenger who does not share her enthusiasm for their journey. Jimmy Bates is a boy known by his stage name Clovis King. He is travelling with the acting troupe run by his adoptive parents, but all he wants is to return to England and his foster mother. Maia promises that she will come to see his troupe’s play. When Maia arrives in Brazil, she does, indeed, find the wonderland she envisioned. However, her new family leaves much to be desired. English-natives, Mr. and Mrs. Carter seem to hate the land they live in. They stay inside almost exclusively, fearing bugs and germs. Their children, twin girls named Beatrice and Gwendolyn, are selfish and spoiled and share their parents’ views of the country.
When the day of Clovis’s play arrives, naturally, the Carters wish to take their children to see the performers from their beloved England, but that does not include Maia. Although she is left at home, she sneaks out of the house and tries to walk to the theater. Soon she is lost, and she must rely on a kind Indian boy to show her the way. Clovis is wonderful in the performance of Little Lord Fauntleroy, but at a key moment, his voice begins cracking. The rest of the play is a disaster. As the days pass, Maia begins to feel that she cannot stand life with the Carters for much longer. They keep her trapped inside and unable to explore the beautiful world around her. Even worse, they do not really care about her, but only about the monthly stipend they receive from Mr. Murray. Fortunately, Maia again encounters the Indian boy who helped her on the night of the play. She discovers that he is a half-British, half-Xanti Indian named Finn Tavener. Currently, Finn is on the run from two men, Mr. Trapwood and Mr. Low (whom Maia nicknames “the crows”), who are searching for the heir to Westwood, the wealthy Tavener estate back in England. Finn has heard his father’s unhappy stories of living in Westwood, and so he is running from the crows who wish to force him to go there. Instead, Finn wants to sail down the Amazon river, which the locals call “the River Sea,” to look for the Xanti, his mother’s tribe. Maia introduces Finn to Clovis, and the boys see an opportunity to help each other out. Clovis has run away from the acting troupe, but he lacks a way to return to England. The group hatches a plan: Clovis will pose as the Tavener heir and go to Westwood with the crows, while Finn will stay behind as Clovis and be free to search for his mother’s tribe. The plan goes off without a hitch, and Clovis departs for England.
12:00
One day, Miss Minton leaves to pursue a new job as a governess with a Russian family. She intends to take Maia with her in a bid to remove her from the awful Carter household, but Maia is unaware of this. She is devastated, believing herself abandoned. When the twins accidentally start a fire that destroys the Carters’ house, the family is taken to the hospital, and Maia is left behind. Seizing the opportunity, she finds Finn and leaves with him on his adventure down the Amazon. Meanwhile, in England, Clovis reunites with his foster mother, and she encourages him to reveal his true identity. He tries several times to tell Sir Aubrey, and when he finally manages it, Sir Aubrey is so shocked that he has a heart attack. Clovis eventually tells him that it was a joke, deciding to remain the Westwood heir. Miss Minton soon returns, accompanied by her friend Professor Neville Glastonberry. When they find Maia missing, they pursue the pair down the Amazon, eventually finding them living with the Xanti tribe. For a while, all are happy, but one day, Maia sings for the tribe. Some nearby police hear her voice. Thinking her a captive, they burst in to save her, along with Miss Minton and the Professor. The trio returns to Manaus but not to England, having decided to stay in this beautiful country.
07:00
11:11
Read the first page and answer the following questions
+ PRESS ME
The characters
Mr. Carter
MAIA
Maia's guardian. He is a quiet and mysterious man. He spends his whole day in his messy office and when one day Maia lands in his office, she finds him obsessing over his collection of eyes from his office instead of rescuing his own family!
Loves music and adventures. Though her parents are no more, she has to now live in an unknown land with unknown people.
Mrs. Carter
Mr. Carter's wife. She doesn't seem to like Maia very much. She keeps comparing Maia with her twin girls. If Mr. Carter is obsessed with eye-balls, Mrs. Carter's obsession is insect repellents! She keeps buying various varieties of insect repellent and squirts every nook and corner of the house with them.
Miss Minton
Shares a good relationship with Maia, Miss Minton is her governess who treats her like her own child. She is strict, but witty; very intelligent and resourceful and she gives Maia a lot of books to read.
The characters
Finn Taverner
The twins - Gwendolyn and Beatrice Carter
A half- Indian (Xanti) and half- English boy. He helps Maia to cross the river and reach the theatre to watch Clovis's performance. Later, he becomes an integral part of her story. There is more to him than meets the eye.
Fair and pretty, always dressed in similar clothes, the twins turned out to be very different from how Maia imagined they would be. Not only did they consider her their enemy for some reason. they didn't like to go outdoors nor were they smart or funny.
Mr. Trapwood and Mr. Low
The two detectives, the "Crows" (always dressed in black) who are searching all over Manaus for a boy, whom they announce to be the son of late Bernard Taverner.
Clovis King
Clovis is the boy who became Maia's friend on the ship. He is an improverished boy actor who lived and worked in the acting company owned by the Goodleys. Since he is ill-treated by the Goodleys, he desparately wants to return to England, his home.
Read Chapters 1 and 2.
Home work!