Madam How and Lady Why (Yesterday's Classics) AO5 reading
by Charles Kingsley Author
(From Amazon): Introduces children to geology through conversations about earthquakes, volcanoes, coral reefs, and so on. Encourages children to wonder about the distinctive features of the landscape about them and how they came to be that way. Suitable for ages 10 to 14.
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 9781599150239
- Print Status
- In Print
- Chapters
- 36
- Pages
- 316
- Suggested Grades
- 4th - 5th
- Publisher
- Yesterday's Classics
- Copyright
- 2006
Chapters
- 1 Ch 8 Pg 141-145
- 2 Ch 8 Pg 145- 148 from "so now Analysis has got the upper hand" to "believe that he understands what he says"
- 3 Ch 8 Pg 148 - 151 from "Why?" " Think now" to " every time you breathe"
- 4 Ch 8 Pg 151-154 from "well; that is very curious" to " right away, in which Madam How made it"
- 5 Ch 8 Pg 154 - 158 from "And where was that" to "orming at the bottom of the sea."
- 6 Ch 8 Pg 158 - 161 from "And what are Pteropods?" to end of chapter
- 7 Ch 9 Pg 162 - 166 Coral Reef, from beginning to " old guess is actual fact and true."
- 8 Ch 9 Pg 166 - 171 "But what are these curious sea creatures called" to "teased her til she was quite angry"
- 9 Ch 9 Pg 171 - 174 from "then he was very lucky that she did not" to "such as this stone is partly made of"
- 10 Ch 9 Pg 174 - 179 from "But what happens to all the delicate" to "nearly a quart of pure oil"
- 11 Ch 9 Pg 179 - 182 from "That is the history of the cocoa-nut-crab" to "nothing is impossible with God"
- 12 Ch 9 Pg 183 - 187 from :But you said that the coal was made from plants" to the end.
- 13 Ch 10 Pg 188 - 194 Field and Wild, beginning to "she is at work now making you."
- 14 Ch 10 Pg 194 - 199 from "Making me?" to "Why, I have got I don't know how many."
- 15 Ch 10 Pg 199 - 203 from "Why not? Bring them here, and let us see." to "that is, sown with grass seeds."
- 16 Ch 10 Pg 203 - 209 from "And where did men get the grass seed from?" to " and lived quietly side by side for ages."
- 17 Ch 10 Pg 209 - 214 from "Another forest coming up from below?" to "even as wise as Sweep the retriever."
- 18 Ch 10 Pg 214 - 220 from "Not as wise as Sweep?" to end of chapter
- 19 Ch 11 Pg 221 - 226 The World's End. from beginning to "louder every step we take."
- 20 Ch 11 Pg 226 - 230 "what a roar! Is there a waterfall there?" to "have been talking, we have got into the woods"
- 21 Ch 11 Pg 230 - 236 from "oh, what beautiful woods, just like our own." to "and they could not float over that."
- 22 Ch 11 Pg 236 - 242 from "Come, I say, and sit down on this bench" to "make one think that so it must have been."
- 23 Ch 11 Pg 242 - 244 from "And now I will tell you something stranger still." to 'and luncheon must be ready."
- 24 Ch 11 Pg 244 - 251 from "why are you opening your eyes at me, like the dog" to the end.
- 25 Pg 252- 255 from beginning to "joined on to that low island on our left."
- 26 Pg 255 - 258 from "what, that long bank of stones." to "in columns of white foam."
- 27 Pg 258 - 260 "Hoch!" to "gannets swooping round and round."
- 28 Pg 260 - 264 from "Oh! one has fallen" to "the mackerel flew out of the water!"
- 29 Pg 264 - 268 from "Yes. you are a lucky boy" to "you went on board at night."
- 30 Pg 268 - 271 from "Oh! Where have we got" to "high over your head"
- 31 Pg 271 - 275 from "And what is that in the air?" to "somersetshire flats"
- 32 Pg 275 - 277 from "There. We are off at last" to "we are in the Box Tunnel."
- 33 Pg 277 - 281 from "There is the light again:" to "close on our right."
- 34 Pg 281 - 285 from "There is the White Horse Hill." to "you will some day."
- 35 Pg 285 - 289 from "there was a clergyman" to "crossing him again!"
- 36 Pg 289 - 295 from "Yes; he winds more sharply" to end of book
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