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The Man Who Found the Boy
How a Kenyan fossil hunter found the most complete early human ever discovered
A KICD Grade 7 story for the sub strand 11.2.1 Non-fiction materials. 930 words, the length the design asks for at this grade.
The opening pages
On a hot morning in August 1984, a Kenyan man was walking across a dry riverbed west of Lake Turkana, looking at the ground. That was his job. Not a part of his job — the whole of it. Kamoya Kimeu walked, slowly, for hours, with his eyes down, across some of the hottest and emptiest country in Kenya, looking for pieces of bone the size of a thumbnail.
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The remaining 13 pages of this story, and every book on the shelf, in English and Kiswahili.
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- fossil
- fragment
- lugga
- specimen
- skeleton
- vertebrae
- pelvis
- hominid
- species
- estimate
- revise
- proportion
Think about it
- Why is a complete skeleton so much more valuable to scientists than a single tooth?
- The text says scientists still disagree about the boy's age at death. Why does it call that disagreement 'normal and useful'?
- Explain in your own words why Kamoya Kimeu's part in this discovery was once left out.
KICD
| Subject | English Language |
| Grade | 7 |
| Strand | 11.2 Reading |
| Sub strand | 11.2.1 Non-fiction materials |
| Theme | Non-Fiction: Science and Discovery |
| Length | 930 words |
| Outcome | read a variety of grade-appropriate non-fiction materials independently for lifelong learning |
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