67 pages • 2 hours read
Deep Water
Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018
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Teacher Introduction
Deep Water
- Genre: Fiction; middle grade adventure
- Originally Published: 2018
- Reading Level/Interest: Lexile 720L; grades 6-8
- Structure/Length: 50 chapters; 288 pages; approximately 4 hours, 40 minutes on audio
- Protagonist/Central Conflict: The novel centers around Julie Sims, a 12-year-old girl with a passion for scuba diving. Julie loves helping her father in his dive business, but when a deep water dive she is guiding for wealthy clients goes awry, she must help them to survive in the shark-infested waters.
- Potential Sensitivity Issues: Perilous situations; shark attacks; survival scenes; some violence; death of parent
Watt Key, Author
- Bio: Born 1970; American author of young adult and middle grade fiction; known for his adventure stories set in the outdoors; graduate of Birmingham-Southern College; also worked as a computer programmer and in medical software sales
- Other Works: Alabama Moon (2006); Dirt Road Home (2010); Fourmile (2012); Terror at Bottle Creek (2016)
CENTRAL THEMES connected and noted throughout this Teaching Guide:
- Resilience and Discipline
- The Unyielding Force of Nature
- Family Relationships
STUDY OBJECTIVES: In accomplishing the components of this Teaching Guide, students will:
- Gain an understanding of the scientific and social aspects of scuba diving that drive the action and overarching conflict Julie faces.
- Read paired texts and other brief resources to make connections via the text’s themes of Resilience and Discipline, The Unyielding Force of Nature, and Family Relationships.
