Applying Activity to Related Lesson – Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Read the following passage and ask children to identify when a new sense is talked about. How many senses does Lewis talk about? Explain that one reason why Lewis’ writing is so powerful is that he is able to describe items using all five senses.

“What they were seeing may be hard to believe when you read it in print, but it was almost as hard to believe when you saw it happening. The things in the picture were moving. It didn’t look at all like a cinema either; the colours were too real and clean and out-of-door for that. Down went the prow of the ship into the wave and up went a great shock of spray.… At the same moment an exercise book which had been lying beside Edmund on the bed flapped, rose and sailed through the air to the wall behind him, and Lucy felt all her hair whipping round her face as it does on a windy day. And this was a windy day; but the wind was blowing out of the picture towards them. And suddenly with the wind came the noises— the swishing of waves and the slap of water against the ship’s sides and the creaking and the over-all high, steady roar of air and wafer. But it was the smell, the wild, briny smell, which really convinced Lucy that she was not dreaming. Stop it, came Eustace’s voice, squeaky with fright and bad temper. “It’s some silly trick you two are playing. Stop it, I’ll tell Alberta — ow!” The other two were much more accustomed to adventures, but, just exactly as Eustace Clarence said “Ow,” they both said “Ow” too. The reason was that a great cold, salt splash had broken light out of the frame and they were breathless from the smack of it, besides being wet through.”