To become a member of the ship’s crew, Charlotte Doyle must pass a test of climbing to the top of the mast.  She faces physical and mental challenges to prove her worth to herself and the crew.  She is afraid but climbs anyway.  The author, Avi, mimics the ship movement in the emotions of the character as he tells her story. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Medallion, 2010)

This lesson was created as part of the Basal Alignment Project, during which teachers created CCSS-aligned lessons for existing literary and information texts in basal readers. All page numbers and unit/week designations found in this lesson relate to the edition of the basal reader named above. If you are using a trade book or different edition of this title, the page/unit/week references in this lesson will not match. Consult the content referenced in the body of the lesson to determine appropriate page numbers for your text.