Edith+R's+Boy+of+the+Painted+Cave+project

**Monday, October 6, 2008**
1.   What are you good at? **ANSWER:** I am good at dancing. 2. How do you feel when you're doing the thing you're good at? **ANSWER:** When I dance I feel energitic and like turning the volume more up and dacing after song and after song. 3. How would you feel if people wouldn't let you do the thing you're good at? **ANSWER:** I would not be intrested in any thing else and every thing would be a big spot of gray.
 * Prewrite**

**Tuesday, October 7, 2008 CLASSWORK**
Q's:1. What problems or conflicts are presented in chapter one? Tao needing to find a rabbit is an obvious one; identify at least two more. Two more problems would be that children and adults for many months with very little food the other one would be that Q's:2. Predict the resolution of each conflict. Example: conflict: Tayo needs to find a rabbit. **ANSWERS:** conflict:**Many families had very little food and and they would travel very far for hunting. **2nd. conflict:** Tao's clan think he ate the rabbit when everybody else was hungry.
 * Chapter 1**
 * 1st.

**1st. prediction:** My prediction for the first conflict is that that later on in the story they hunt more animals to eat more.

**2nd prediction:** My prediction for the second conflict that Tao would prove that they were wrong ,but that he would not relive that he is painting on the cave walls.

**Wensday, October 8, 2008 CLASSWORK**
What two important events happen in this chapter? **ANSWER:** One important event was that since he did not find the rabbit so he had to leave the campus for a few days the second was that Tao was imagining images of a girl and he thought that that his mom when she was young.
 * Chapter 2**

**Friday, October 10, 2008 CLASSWORK**
1. What do Tao and Ram learn to do together? **ANSWER:** Tao and Ram was to hunt together because Tao noticed that they hunted better than just than each hunting for them selfs. 2. What decision does Tao tell Volt? **ANSWER:** The decision that Tao tells Volt is that he want's to hunt alone ,yet then he is actually going to hunt with Ram. 3. Look at Tao's decisions and actions from Volt's perspective. Pretend you are Volt. Write a first person paragraph explaining how you feel. **ANSWER:** I would feel that it would be okay because if Tao is hunting better by him self and bringing more food than before than it is better.I would also feel a little suspicious because why would Tao hunt by him self I would be asking my self does he have someone else hunting for him and taking the cretid.If I was Volt I would also feel angry because he is giving up on a awsome apertoonaty.
 * Chapter 3**

**Monday, October 13, 2008 CLASSWORK**
Read Chapter 4 in class. ** In a good paragraph, describe Tao's mother. Start with an interest grabber. Then write your topic sentence. Give three details or examples to support your thesis. Use a quotation from the chapter. **ANSWER:** In this chapter it describes Tao mother.Tao's mother did alot of things to help Tao servive.Kala said that "It was the law that crippled children would be thrown to the wolfs".Then her mom was taken a few months after Tao was born.When she was taken captive wouldent give him up.That shows she was a caring person.So then she gave Tao to Kala because she knew that if she dies Tao would be under good supervision,
 * Chapter 4

**Thursday, October 23, 2008 CLASSWORK**
====1.Write your reaction to the last paragraph in the chapter. Do you agree or disagree with Graybeard? Is what he says true for those times, but not now? Or is the reverse true: is it true now, but wasn't true then?==== ==== **ANSWER:** I kind of agree and disagree. I agree because Tao already knows its a taboo and he also knows he is not soposed to be doing it, but I disagree because if Tao likes to draw he should be di\oing that and if he dident most of the kids would also like be diong that.AN example would be a handycap not be able to be able to comunicate with other people and just be with their own people they have in class. Anyway Graybeard also nows how to draw he should at least 2 lessons to Tao.====
 * Chapter 7**

**Chapter 8**
====1. An important theme in this novel is that people should follow their dreams and do what they believe is right, even if they don't follow their society's expected ways. The author examines this theme in a stone age setting. Imagine a similar situation today, where a person's desires go against society's expectations What situation did you imagine? In the situation you imagined, should the person follow his or her dreams or should they follow society's rules? Give your opinion.==== ==== **ANSWER:** In the movie The Secret Garden there is a boy that can't walk and he never could go outside until a girl comes and she finds a garden an she fixes it up, but the boy says that eveybody expects me to be laying down in this bed for the rest of my life then the girl helps him to walk then at the end he decides to show his dad and eveybody in the orphange that he could walk ,when he fianally shows everybody there all in shock. So in this movie he does something that nobody in his society excpets him to do.====

2.What does this tell you about his character?
==== **ANSWER:** This tells that Graybeard is a kind and a loving person and belives in Tao that he could draw.And that he is a trustworthy friend. Graybeard is a trustworthy friend because he kept Tao's secret.====

1.Do you think Graybeard is a good teacher? Why?
==== **ANSWER:** I think Graybeard is a good teacher because at first he did not want Tao to draw because it was a taboo, but then he decided to give Tao a chance to draw and he actually kept his word and gaveTao drawing lesons and now Tao Knows how to draw better .And evey chapter he teaches Tao somthing diffrent.====

2.Would you like to have been taught a skill by him? Why?
==== **ANSWER:** Yes ,I would have liked to been taught by Graybeard .I would liked have been taught by Graybeard because he might be srtict, and while yor being tauht it might be scary , but at the end it was all worth it.An example would be that I was in 4th grade and I had a strict teacher and she would always push us into practicing allot of stuff like math (mostly math) and at the end we got the highest math scores than any of the other 4th grade classes and when we went to 5th grade since it mostly all review we did good.====

**Thursday, October 30, 2008 CLASSWORK**
1. Name some of the ingredients used to make paint. Which surprised you most? **ANSWER:** Some of the ingredients to make paint was red, white , and yellow earth and limestone powder. The one that surprised me the most was the limestone powder**.** 2. Why is Tao afraid at the end of the chapter? **ANSWER:** Tao was afraid because since Graybeard is old he thinks he could die sooner.
 * Chapter 12**

**Monday, November 3, 2008 CLASSWORK**
1. Even if Ram had succeeded in hunting the deer, do you think it was a good idea of Tao's to "show off" his dog's ability to hunt? Explain. **ANSWER:** No, because he had let Ram off to early he had nt caught the deer, and Volt saw Ram and he got mad and told Tao that he would kill evey last one of them so the curse he soposally he has could ware off. 2. Predict what will happen next. If you've read ahead, invent an alternate scene. **ANSWER:** I think that Ram would make it to the other side of the river, but alsoat one point Tao is going to cross the river to because he was running away from hunters and he couldent run any more so he could swim.
 * Chapter 13**

**Tuesday, November 4, 2008 CLASSWORK**
1. Why does Tao cross the river? **ANSWER:** Tao crosses the river because since volt saw that Tao was hunting with Ram (wich is a taboo to hunt with wolfdogs) so he told Ram to cross the river so the hunters could not kill him so,Tao wanted to re group with Ram again. 2.What decision does Graybeard reach? **ANSWER:** The decision that Graybeard reaches is that Tao is all ready ready to draw paintings in the cave walls to give the Moutain People good hunting.
 * Chapter 14**

**Wednesday, November 5, 2008 CLASSWORK**
1.What problem does Tao have by the end of the chapter? **ANSWER:** The problem that Tao had was that he lamp turned off and he lost his path and he took the wrong path and he could not go back because he did not see anything.
 * Chapter 15**

**Thursday, November 6, 2008 CLASSWORK**
Look at the website of the Laxcaux Caves: http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/arcnat/lascaux/en/ Find a picture that resembles the one Tao is painting. Copy it as your answer to this question.
 * Chapter 16**



Wow! What a chapter! What was your reaction? Tense? Surprised? You predicted it? Write a paragraph describing your reaction. **ANSWER:** My reaction surperising because when Volt deanide it that he was Tao's dad. And when Tao was facing saxson. It was unbealevable that Tao actually and i mean actually servived it. Another thing that surprised me was when Ram saved Volt's live .Then Volt did not have any hate on wolfdogs any more.The most part that that I hated was when Tao found out that Graybeard had died. Anyway it was my favorite chapter for rigt now because I still need to read another chapter.
 * Read Chapter 17 together in class (not for homework)**
 * Chapter 17**

**CLASSWORK Friday, November 7, 2008**
Why does Tao feel he needs to go to the Mountain People? **ANSWER:** Tao feels he needs to go to the Moutain People because he knew that he would have to prove himself again.
 * Chapter 18**