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THING ANGIE LOVES TO DO \ MEXICO MY BIRTH PLACE hello my name is angelica and i like to do sport i like school when it gets intersestinig and fun! My favorite subject is MATH!!!! I like to scrap-booking and painting!!!!!!!

Monday, October 8, 2007 Prewrite 1. What are you good at? 2. How do you feel when you're doing the thing you're good at? 3. How would you feel if people wouldn't let you do the thing you're good at?

1. I am good at scrap-booking and math. I feel like a famous person knowing what I am doing and doing it good!! If people told me i could not do what i am good at it will feel like a waste because i can not show other people what i do best.

Tuesday, October 9, 2007 Chapter 1 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. 2. Predict the resolution of each conflict

ANSWER 1: One of the big conflict was that they did not let Tao paint when he loved to paint. One another is that he is not good as a hunter and he lost the rabbit so these are the conflict throwout the book. ANSWER 2: I predict that the are going to end up teaching him how to hunt and painting won't be a taboo so he ends up be a painter

Wednesday, October 10, 2007 Chapter 2 What two important events happen in this chapter? http://www.wikispaces.com/s/rte/images/hyperlink.gif ANSWER 1: He heard a terrible scream and thought that it was an evil spirit! He saw the wolf dog and saw he had a splinter so he took it out

Thursday, October 11, 2007 Chapter 3 1. What do Tao and Ram learn to do together?

ANSWER 1: They learn to hunt together.

Thursday, October 11, 2007 Chapter 4 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 4: Tao never new his mother until his foster parent, Kala told him. Tao's mother was kind to her son. She was very protected and patient if he had a bad foot. Tao's mother was willing to stay in the cave in the wilderness just to keep her son safe! Again and again they tried to take you away, but she fought like a cave lion, screaming, biting, refusing to give you up.

Chapter 5 1. Which two animals does Tao try to draw? 2. Which is easier for him and why?

ANSWER 5 It was the wolf dog and the horse he tried to draw. The easier one would problably be the wolf dog.

Chapter 6 1. Graybeard realizes that Tao has broken two taboos of his clan. What are they? 2. Which taboo doesn't he know about yet? 3. Graybeard describes Volt differently than we have. What aspects of Volt's character is Graybeard acknowledging?

ANSWER 6 1.The first rule is that he was hunting were he should'nt be hunting and therefor taboo he was doing was that he .hunted with a wolf dog. 2.The taboo Graybeard does not know of is that Toa still draws in caves walls 4.He says that Volt was a good person.

Chapter 7 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: was it not true then, but true now?

ANSWER 7 My reaction was that what he did was huge. I never thought that would happen. He also made Tao feel bad so that was also surprising. ANSWER 7 I agree on what Graybeard said because you have to respect the rules. Now a day it still runs but not for the same purpose.

Chapter 8 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. 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 8 I imagine both mom and dad joining the army and they both have to leave there children behind for a very long time and what if the parents do not come back i can't imagine how the poor children will feel. I think that they should have turns joining the army so that way one parent can stay with the children that way they won't be as sad. SO they can still fallow there dreams and also think of there loving children.

Chapter 9 Why do you think Graybeard changed his mind? What does this tell you about his character?

ANSWER 9 Because he fanailly fegeared out that Tao really likes drawing so he let him go and said that he Is going to teach him. It tells me that he cares what tao really loves. so he cares.

Chapter 10 1. What are the "mountains-that-walk"? 2. What almost happened to Tao?

ANSWER 10

Chapter 11 Do you think Graybeard is a good teacher? Why? Would you like to have been taught a skill by him? Why?

ANSWER 11 He is a good teacher because when he gets tough on Toa. Tao ends up learning more and more!!! So he is, good teacher!!! Yes, I would like to be tought my Graybeard because Ilike being challenge and Tao ends up seems to be learning really well.

Chapter 12 1. Name some of the ingredients used to make paint. Which surprised you most? 2. Why is Tao afraid at the end of the chapter?

ANSWER 12 The ingredients he used was fat and clay and a binch of other weird stuff for paint. The most surprising inredient was the fat because if you think about it is really gross even if we eat it. Toa was scared at the end of the chapter because Graybeared is good friend was almost dieing so he good scrared that he was giong to lose him.

Chapter 13 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. 2. Predict what will happen next. If you've read ahead, invent an alternate scene.

ANSWER 13 No, i do not think so, because he thinks that wolfs will never change. What i think they are going to do to Toa is that they are going to tell him to stay with the mother and never hunt again

Chapter 14 1. Why does Tao cross the river? 2. What decision does Graybeard reach?

ANSWER 14 He crossed the river because he heard Ram moawing and graoning so he got scared that Ram was in trouble so he swam acrossed the river.;. The decison that Graybrared reach was that Tao will become a painter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Yaaaaaaaaaaa

Chapter 15 What problem does Tao have by the end of the chapter?

ANSWER 15 The problem that Toa has was that the lights go off in the cave at the end of the chapter!!

Chapter 16 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.

ANSWER 16



Chapter 17 Wow! What a chapter! What was your reaction? Tense? Surprised? You predicted it? Write a paragraph describing your reaction.

ANSWER 17 WOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWO I was tefenally surprise of all this drama i never that this will happened bt i am gladed at the same time specialt how Graybeared dieed wich was so sad and the also surprise that VOLT IS TAO FATHER!!!!!

Chapter 18 Why does Tao feel he needs to go to the Mountain People?

ANSWER 18 Beacause Graybeard was over there...

Extra Credit Write a narrative describing what happens next. Make sure your plot has a conflict, a climax, and a resolution. You can introduce new characters if you want.