The+Cay+Reading+Group

This page is for the reading group reading //The Cay// ﻿ //.// This page will represent the book as we read it. Please see the discussion to view the comprehension skills these students use as they read this amazing book! Philip is excited when the Germans invade the small island of Curacao. War has always been a game to him, and he's eager to glimpse it first hand - until the freighter he and his mother are traveling on to the United States is torpedoed. When Philip comes to, He is on a small raft in the middle of the sea. Besides Stew cat his only companion in an old West Indian, Timothy Philip remembers his mothers warning about black people. "They are different, and they life differently." By the time the castaways arrive on a small island, Philip's Head injury had made him blind and dependent on Timothy This is the story of their struggle to survive, and of the Phillips efforts to adjust to his blindness and to understand the deform, wise, and loving old man who is his companion.

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