Beside the Ocean of Time | Overview & Chapter Abstracts for Teachers

Chapter Abstracts

Chapter abstracts are short descriptions of events that occur in each chapter. They highlight major plot events and detail the important relationships and characteristics of characters and objects. The Chapter Abstracts can be used to review what the students have read, or to prepare the students for what they will read. Hand the abstracts out in class as a study guide, or use them as a "key" for a class discussion. They are relatively brief, but can serve to be an excellent refresher of the text for either a student or teacher.

Chapter 1 Abstract

* Thorfinn Ragnarson is a schoolboy on the island of Norday, in the Orkney islands north of Scotland in the 1930s.
* Thorfinn lives with his father Matthew, who is a crofter/tenant farmer and his three sisters: Inga, Sigrid and Ragna.
* Thorfinn's teacher and most of the...
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