How are Hab’s life and Nat’s life similar?. How does Nat’s father lose his anchor to the windward? What does this mean?. How does Nat get carried away in learning?. How are ropes, sails and mallets all most important work for a ship?. How can you learn something everywhere you go like Nat does?. How doe Nat learn? What methods does he use to learn?. Why would Be Meeker want to discourage Nat?. Why would Nat be so excited about a blank notebook?. What does Nat learn in his first few days of being indentured?. How does change effect Nat? How does it affect you?. How does Nat’s positive attitude bring peace to Lizza?. How would the notice of the missing indentured servants impact Nat?. How did Nat feel about being indentured?. What pressure and stress did the death of mother and grandmother add to Mary’ life?. Bentley’s opinion on Nat’s intelligence worry and preoccupy Mother’s mind? What did it mean to Nat to not be able to return to school?. Why would prices continue to climb despite the end of the war and peace?. 
What would be the delay between the end of the war and peace?. After Hab leaves on the Freedom, why does the family speak so quickly during breakfast?. What role did Nat assume as the oldest boy?. What is hara money versus continental money?. What role does hope play in the Bowditch home?. How did Master Watsons apology change Nat?. How can arithmetic provide Nat with more security?. What relationship exists between curiosity and a desire to learn?. If you had an unlimited amount of money, what would you do?. How does war change rules of peace time?. Does a separation of male and female chores exist today? What about male and female roles?. Why would they fetch a fire instead of creating their own fire (p7)?. What impresses you most in this picture (p4)?. How accurate are the sketches and drawings in this book?. Bowditch is an phenomenal teaching tool encompassing math, history, social studies, English, arts and self-directed learning principles. Nat may have been slight of build, but no one guessed that he had the persistence and determination to master sea navigation in the days when men sailed only by logs, leads, and lookouts Nat’s long hours of study and observation, collected in his famous work, The American Practical Navigator stunned the sailing community and made him a New England hero” ( Amazon summary). 
But Nat didn’t promise to have the makings of a sailor he was too physically small. Nathaniel Bowditch grew up in a sailor and world traveler Salem in the early days, when tall-masted ships from foreign ports crowded the wharves. Bowditch an eighteenth-century nautical wonder and mathematical wizard.
“Readers today are still fascinated by Carry On, Mr.
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