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FOR HOME-ECONOMICS CLASSES
1. Find a recipe for bouillabaisse. Where did the dish originate? What do Americans call it? Read to the class William Makepeace Thackeray's delightful The Ballad of Bouillabaisse. How close does his recipe come to yours ?
2. Elizabeth seasons her stew with wild ginger. What spices could be found on a tropical island? How should each be used? What commonly used foods come to us from tropical countries?
3. Ernest says, "Don't worry, Mother. Cooking's just boiling water with things in it." To what types of cookery might this definition apply?
4. As a reward for the winner of the race, Elizabeth makes an iced
cake. What ingredients did she need, and where could she get them?
FOR SHOP-WORK CLASSES
1. Make a small model of an early nineteenth-century brig like the Flying Swan.
2. Make a small model of an outrigger dugout canoe such as Jack and Fritz use.
3. Make a model of the barrel-raft the Robinsons used in escaping from the wreck.
4. Make a plan for a tree-house you could build with the materials at your disposal. How did the Robinsons make use of the pulley to build their treehouse? On what principle does the pulley work?
SENTENCES TO DISCUSS
How is each of the following speeches used in the picture? What is its significance with relation to life today?
1. "I have been thinking a great deal, these last few months, about the world we live in. We call it civilized — and yet men are using all their energies to destroy one another. A little man with an insane ambition has set out to conquer Europe. He doesn't care
that a million young men will be killed and maimed — because of him."
2. Fritz: "Napoleon has been defeated, sir — Europe is at peace
now — ."
William: 'Then it will be a better
world to live in."
3. Fritz: "You can't deny that Napoleon is a great man, sir." William: "But I do deny it. Napoleon is a great militarist."
WORD STUDY
Define each of these terms. How is each used in the picture?
Beau, stock, poultice, superficiality, spinet, bagatelle, fop, wastrel, bouilla
baisse, gossips, batten down the hatches, mizzen, halyards, beer and skittles, scullion, wench, spanking cob, calabash, paradox, pomegranate.