After some time, Martine feels courageous enough to start looking for the white giraffe at midnight. Martine is startled, one stormy night, to see the white giraffe outside Gwyn’s home. Gwyn Thomas insists that the white giraffe is nothing more than a creature of legend, even though everyone else believes in it. Although no one sees it, the giraffe is rumored to leave footprints where it visits at night. When Martine has started to get used to her new home, she hears a local legend about a mythical white giraffe. Tendai takes Martine to his aunt named Grace, and she tells Martine that she has “the gift.” There she meets Tendai, a local worker on the game reserve with Martine’s grandmother. Synopsis-White Giraffe – Martine is left an orphan after her parents die in a fire in England she is shipped off from England to live at an animal reserve in South Africa with her grandmother Gwyn Thomas, whom she has never met before. We learn about mythology through this book and how to believe in your imagination We visit animals that are only found in zoos and the wild. We also take a journey around the world using google earth. Throughout this novel I teach rigors vocabulary, vivid visualization, the importance of each of the categories of the plot chart. One novel that I use to teach from is “The White Giraffe” by Laruen St.
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