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he Water Horse is set in Scotland. has three lochs, Loch Lochy, the furthest south, then
Scotland is part of Great Britain, Loch Oich, and then Loch Ness. Loch Ness is the most
which is also called the United northern of the three lochs.
Kingdom (UK). Scotland is one of the four countries
Loch Ness is the largest of these three lochs. In fact,
that make up the United Kingdom. England, Wales,
Loch Ness is the largest body of fresh water in Great
and Northern Ireland are the other three countries.
Britain. Loch Ness is nearly twenty-four miles long
When people think of Scotland, they usually think of and between one and one and a half miles wide. At its
bagpipes, kilts, Braveheart, castles, and stories about deepest point it is 754 feet deep. The bottom of the
creatures living in lakes—or lochs as they are known in loch is flat. Loch Ness holds more water than all the
Scotland. One famous group of lochs in Scotland lie in other lakes in England and Wales put together. Does
what is called the Great Glen. The Great Glen is a large it also hold the Water Horse?
valley that seems to cut Scotland along a diagonal line.
It runs from the city of Inverness in the north to the
town of Fort William in the south. The Great Glen
THE UNITED KINGDOM
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IRELAND
WALES ENGLAND
lexander Selkirk was a Scottish sailor and lit a torch. He waved it wildly at the ships. When a
born in 1676. He went to sea at age landing party from the ships rowed to shore, they found
19 to make his fortune. After a few a “wildman” dressed in goatskins. Alexander Selkirk
years, Alexander was made a Sailing Master because had spent four years and four months on the island—
he was so good at sailing a ship. But Selkirk soon all by himself.
found himself on a ship that he did not like sailing.
In 1713 Selkirk published the story of his adventures. Six
Its captain liked getting into battles at sea with other
years later, Alexander Selkirk’s true story was turned into
ships. After battles with several Spanish ships, Selkirk
a fictional story by an author named Daniel Defoe.
feared his ship would be sunk during a battle. Selkirk
Daniel Defoe called his novel (and its main character)
demanded that the captain put him ashore on the next
Robinson Crusoe. Robinson Crusoe pretends to tell the
island they came upon.
“true” story of an English castaway who washes ashore
So in September 1704, Alexander Selkirk was cast away and spends 28 years on a remote island. In Defoe’s
on an uninhabited island (today known as Robinson novel, Robinson Crusoe meets all sorts of people before
Crusoe Island) 400 miles off the coast of Chile. Selkirk he is rescued. The full title of Daniel Defoe’s novel is:
took with him some clothing, bedding, a musket with
The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of
gunpowder, some tools, and a Bible. After he came
Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner: who lived Eight
ashore, he read his Bible and waited for someone to
and Twenty Years, all alone in an uninhabited Island
rescue him. But with a heavy sadness, Selkirk soon
on the coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great
realized that he would be alone on the island for a long,
River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by
long time. Selkirk tried to make the best of island life.
Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself.
He made friends with rats, cats, and
With An Account how he was at last as strangely
goats to keep him company.
deliver’d by Pirates. Written by Himself.
On February 1, 1709, two
Why did British ships dropped anchor
offshore. Selkirk saw this
Adapted from: “Alexander Selkirk: The Real Robinson Crusoe?”
Please see: www.bbc.co.uk/history/scottishhistory/europe/oddities_europe.shtml
they name
me “Crusoe”?
Artist and children’s book
illustrator NC Wyeth illustrated
Daniel Defoe’s novel Robinson
Crusoe in 1920. Why do you think
Angus names the Water Horse
after Robinson Crusoe?
What do you think went through Alexander Selkirk’s mind when he saw the two ships coming near his island?
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n June 17, 1993, Edna MacInnes and done to fool people—like the man who walked around the
her boyfriend, David Mackay say they edge of the loch making “Nessie prints” with a hippo-foot
watched a creature in Loch Ness for hunting-trophy. And the famous surgeon’s photo that
10 minutes. Miss MacInnes said that the 40 foot long was modeled on a toy submarine by the same family
beast waved around its giraffe-like neck. Then it who did the “hippo-foot” hoax!) There is the photograph
disappeared! Later on the same day James Mackintosh of the Loch Ness monster curling its neck out of the water.
and his son also spotted a brown thing with a neck like But it is really a photograph of a truck tire!
a giraffe break the surface of the loch. Mr. Mackintosh
Sometimes people see what is called an optical illusion.
remembers that, “It was an eerie experience, it was
Put your two index fingers together about an inch
swimming quite swiftly away from the shore.”
away from your eyes. Do you see a little hot dog sitting
The Edna MacInnes story was grossly misreported. between your two fingers? This is an example of our
Nonetheless, stories like these are called “eyewitness eyes playing tricks on us, or an optical illusion.
reports.” They are told by people who claim they saw Scientists have used sonar as a way to track the
the Water Horse with their very own eyes. But are they monster’s movements. Sonar is a way to find objects
telling the truth? Why would underwater by using sound
they lie? How can we know? bouncing off of the object,
What is good evidence? the way bats use sound to fly
Evidence—Something that proves or
There are hundreds of reports disproves something else; something that around in the dark. Scientists have
by eyewitnesses. There are makes plain or clear; in a court of law, data also turned to nature. They study
photographs taken by people that is presented to a court or a jury in proof the water temperature, the depth
of facts.This may include eyewitness reports, of the loch, the climate of the area,
who claim to have seen the Water records, documents, photographs, or objects.
Horse. But some of them are and other forms of life found in the
hoaxes. (A hoax is a trick that is loch. They want to see if the loch
could keep a creature alive.
Millions and millions of people visit Loch Ness in
Scotland. They take pictures. They ride boats across
the loch. But most of all, they look. They say they would
like to believe in the monster. If only—
Adapted from “Searching for Nessie”: www.nessie.co.uk/search3.html.
500
CONVERSION CHART
400 1 inch=2.54 centimeters
1 foot=30.48 centimeters
1centimeter=.39370 inch
300
200
100
0
units: 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000
cm
In the drawing, about how long (in centimeters) is the Water Horse? You read that on June 17, 1993, Edna MacInnes
and her boyfriend David Mackay say they watched a creature in Loch Ness that was about 40 feet long. How long was the
creature they believe they saw in centimeters? What will you have to do to find out? Using the measurements here, draw
your own Water Horse on butcher-block paper, opened up shopping bags, or large sheets of cardboard from boxes. When
you have finished drawing the Water Horse, ask an adult to help you cut out the drawing.
selflessNESS kindNESS
YOUR
ACROSS TURN forgiveNESS openNESS
3 Showing care and honor toward happiNESS respectfulNESS
4 Acting to let someone know you forgive them helpfulNESS truthfulNESS
5 Acting without concern for yourself inclusiveNESS goodNESS
6 Friendliness; helpful and thoughtful;
showing gentleness
7 Acting in a way that lends a hand or shows support
DOWN
1 Being joyful; full of gladness or cheerfulness 10
8 9
3
6
5
ACTIVITY 1 ACTIVITY 4
About the Setting: The Great What Do You Think?
Glen and Its Lochs English/Language Arts: NCTE/IRA
English/Language Arts: NCTE/IRA Standard 4: Communication Skills
Standard 1: Reading for Perspective
Visual Arts: CNAEA Standard 1:
Social Studies: NCSS Standard 3: Understanding and Applying Media,
People, Places, and Environments Techniques, and Processes
Character Education: Chicago Public
ACTIVITY 2 Schools Character Standard 6:
What’s in the Loch? Honesty and Truthfulness
English/Language Arts: NCTE/IRA Mathematics: NCTM Standard
Standard 4: Communication Skills NM-MEA.3-5. 1: Understand
Visual Arts: CNAEA Standard 1: measurable attributes of objects
Understanding and Applying Media, and the units, systems, and
Techniques, and Processes processes of measurement.
ACTIVITY 3 ACTIVITY 5
Where Crusoe Gets Its Name UnLOCH the MysteriousNESS
to Being a Good Friend
English/Language Arts: NCTE/IRA
Standard 1: Reading for Perspective; English/Language Arts: NCTE/IRA
Standard 3: Communication Skills Standard 3: Evaluation Strategies
Character Education: Chicago Public
Schools Character Standard 1: Caring
D
ick King-Smith was born and raised in
Gloucestershire, England. After twenty thinking about The Water
years as a farmer, he turned to teaching Horse started. That and the
and then to writing children’s books that have fact that I’m particularly
delighted readers in this country and on the fond of that part of
other side of the Atlantic Ocean too. Dick Scotland. For me, there’s
King-Smith is the author of many books for something about the misty,
children, including Mr. Ape, Martin’s Mice, and very tranquil sense to that
Babe: The Gallant Pig, which was also made place. I think that is an attractive part of it.
into a major motion picture. If you’re thinking about the sea, well the
The inspiration for writing The Water Horse sea is either calm or rough; lochs one thinks
came to Dick King-Smith as a result of visiting of as tranquil places, with a flat, placid
friends who lived near Loch Ness. “I’d always surface that might suddenly be broken by
been fascinated by the concept of a monster the emergence of a strange-looking head,
somewhere in that enormous loch,” he says. perhaps. Or a body. Or a tail.”
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