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NORY RYAN’S SONG

NORY RYAN’S SONG. PATRICIA REILLY GIFF. THATCHED ROOF COTTAGE. Here is a photo of a thatched roof cottage in Ireland. How is it the same and different from your home?. Insert your answer here Same: Different. IRELAND.

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NORY RYAN’S SONG

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  1. NORY RYAN’S SONG PATRICIA REILLY GIFF

  2. THATCHED ROOF COTTAGE Here is a photo of a thatched roof cottage in Ireland. How is it the same and different from your home? Insert your answer here Same: Different

  3. IRELAND Here is a map of Europe. Can you find Ireland? Place a smiley face using “autoshapes” on the country.

  4. Nory drops Anna’s coin into St. Patrick’s Well found in Ballentubber Abbey. 1. What county in Ireland is Ballentubber Abbey? 2. Why do you think people go to St. Patrick’s Well? Place your answers here. 1. 2. ST. PATRICK’S WELL

  5. Maggie announces that she is going to sail to Brooklyn, New York with Liam. Name 2 things that she might see when she gets there. Place your answer here. 1. 2. BROOKLYN, NY

  6. AMERICA Place your answer here. Maggie sailed to New York with Liam on a ship that left Galway. 1. About how many days would they need to travel before arriving in New York?

  7. The potatoes start to turn black and turn to mush. What kind of pathogen causes potato blight? What causes the really bad smell? Place your answers here. 1. 2. POTATO BLIGHT

  8. CLIFFS OF IRELAND A man is killed when he is too near the cliffs. Copy and paste a picture of what the cliffs in Ireland may look like.

  9. LIMPETS Nory gathers limpets to eat. • Describe limpets. • Copy and paste a picture of limpets. Place your description here.

  10. Throughout the story Nory is worried about the “sidhe”. What are sidhe? Why should she have not worried about them? Place your answers here. 1. 2. SIDHE

  11. The story says Nory dipped her petticoat into the stream. Describe a petticoat for a girl. Do girls wear petticoats today? Place your answers here. 1. 2. CLOTHING OF CHILDREN

  12. NETTLES Anna uses herbs to cure sickness in the people. Nory helps Anna collect nettles. • View a nettles plant • Why would Anna want to collect nettles? Place your answer here

  13. Nory begs to go with Sean’s brothers in the currach. Lord Cunningham demands the Mallons’ currach to pay for their rent. Describe a currach. Place your answer here. CURRACH

  14. LORD CUNNINGHAM Lord Cunningham is the landlord to the people that live near Nory. Celia goes to Lord Cunningham’s to ask for a job in his kitchen. View the type of house that Lord Cunningham may have lived in on the next slide. 1. Name 3 things that makes Lord Cunningham’s house different than Nory’s. Place your answers here. 1. 2. 3.

  15. GALWAY Nory’s da said that the road to Galway wound around the coast like a ball of yarn let loose. Locate Galway on the map.

  16. GALWAY Where do you think the Ryan family would have lived if they would have taken a path that wound around the coast like a ball of yarn let loose?

  17. BRACK/COIN When Nory goes to Ballilee to sell her shawl she sees a woman in the hotel eating brack. What is brack? Nory receives a coin for her shawl. Draw a picture of a coin from Ireland on the paper provided.

  18. When Nory’s package is stolen, she is pushed down. Her forehead is torn open. Why do you think Anna gives her Comfrey? How would Comfrey help Nory? Place your answer here. 1. 2. COMFREY

  19. GANNETS Nory talks about gannets throughout the story and then survives for many weeks on the eggs of gannets. • Describe a gannet. • Insert a picture of a gannet Place your answer here. 1.

  20. A strange man brought Nory 2 tickets to sail to America. Draw a picture of what you think the ticket may have looked like on the paper provided. AMERICA

  21. Why did Patricia Reilly Giff decide to write Nory Ryan’s Song? Place your answer here. PATRICIA REILLY GIFF

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