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Which acrostic did you like best?     1.     2.     3.    4.      5.

What did you like best about your choice acrostic?
 
Go to this site to get the definition of a 'screenplay'.  http://www.m-w.com/netdict.htm

Who wrote and dedicated website #1 to Armstrong Sperry? 

At the bottom of website #2 you will see:  "This page last updated Tuesday, 01/18/00".  If this website was truly updated this past January, what correction or addition should have been made?  (Be a good detective.  You may also want to go back to the first site to reread the first paragraph.)

Mr. Sperry says that his real interest in storytelling came from his Click the down arrow. his imagination. living on a farm. his great-grandfather. his love of drawing.

In what year did Armstrong Sperry win the Newbery Award?

At the 3rd website, look for the title that Call It Courage was published under in the United Kingdom.

Why did so many of Armstrong Sperry's books take place in Polynesia and on islands in the South Pacific?   Click the down arrow. Since not many people had been there, no one would know if he made up stories. He loved the islands and the people and had spent much time there. He thought they would be exciting settings that kids would want to read about.

Go to the 6th website and read Sperry's acceptance speech. 
     What author in his youth inspired his interest in the South Pacific? 
     Sperry describes a sense of foreboding, that something bad was going to happen on Bora Bora.  What did happen?  Click the down arrow. The people became rich very quickly and forgot their old ways. The hurricane destroyed the island. People lost interest in good government. No one was using vanilla anymore for baking.