gersons+painted+cave

Monday, October 8, 2007 Prewrite 1. What are you good at? I'm good at playing soccer. 2. How do you feel when you're doing the thing you're good at? I feel good when I play soccer. 3. How would you feel if people wouldn't let you do the thing you're good at? I don't really care, I'll just go to another person and try to play with them.

Tuesday, October 9, 2007 Chapter 1 1. What problems or conflicts are presented in chapter one? One of the problems was that he was trying to catch a rabbit and didn't get one. Another problem was that he felt like if someone was watching him to kill him. The last conflict was that he was not aloud to draw. 2. Predict the resolution of each conflict. The problem with the first one, the rabbit escapes and the other one was he left and he didn't feel as if he was being watched. He goes to places were there are no people so he draws stuff.

Chapter 2 What two important events happen in this chapter? One important thing was that he found a river when he was very hungry. He also helped a poor defenseless dog that had a bone jamed in his throught and he took of the bone and let him go.

Chapter 3 1. What do Tao and Ram learn to do together? They both learned how to hunt.

2. What decision does Tao tell Volt? He told Volt that he was hunt alone.

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. I'm Volt and I'm really mad that Tao is going to hunt all by himself. It really disturbs me because he can really help the tribe if he goes with the hunters.

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. Tao's mother is so compassionate. The reason that I say that is because she had to let Tao die but she loved him and fought for him. She also was artistic because she would make neclesis for the tribe and they were free to. That is why I think that she is compassionate and artistic.

Chapter 5 1. Which two animals does Tao try to draw? Tao was drawing a horse and a wolf named Ram. 2. Which is easier for him and why? The picture of Ram because he saw a clear picture of him.

Chapter 6 1. Graybeard realizes that Tao has broken two taboos of his clan. What are they? One of the taboos is he hunted with the wolf dog and the other one is that he went into slough. 2. Which taboo doesn't he know about yet? Graybeard doesn't know that Tao painted on caves. 3. Graybeard describes Volt differently than we have. What aspects of Volt's character is Graybeard acknowledging? Graybeard said that Volt is 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? Yes I do agree with Graybeard. Yes it was back then but right now it is kind of taboo because graffiti in places were you are not aloud to is wrong.

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? A adult dreaming to become a docter was almost there but he cannot pay the last year of university for being a dacter and decides to be a docter but the people wont let him because he didn't finish university. I think he should become a docter because he did do a lot of years studing in college and university.

Chapter 9 Why do you think Graybeard changed his mind? I think he changed his mined because Tao listened to him and he liked how he was drawing at the time. What does this tell you about his character? It tells me that he compassionate and could look at other peoples dreams.

Chapter 10 1. What are the "mountains-that-walk"? "Mountains-that-walk," are really Mammoths. 2. What almost happened to Tao? Tao almost died because he was trying to distract the Mammoths because ram was biting the Mammoths.

Chapter 11 Do you think Graybeard is a good teacher? Why? Yes because he could actually help by showing us how to make fire and can show us how to make a twinkle light so it can get attation when we are lost or standed.

Chapter 12 1. Name some of the ingredients used to make paint. Which surprised you most? One of the ingredints was limestone powder and red clay. The limestone powder because isn't it sappose to be just powder. 2. Why is Tao afraid at the end of the chapter? He got scared by seing Graybeard deing.

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. No because even if he caught the deer he would try to kill him anyway. 2. Predict what will happen next. If you've read ahead, invent an alternate scene. Next I think they are going to throw Tao out of the village.

Chapter 14 1. Why does Tao cross the river? Tao crossed the river because he think their doing something bad at Ram. 2. What decision does Graybeard reach? Graybeard decides to let Tao be the cave the cave painter.

Chapter 15 What problem does Tao have by the end of the chapter? Tao had the problem of he thinking he is lost.

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.

Chapter 17 Wow! What a chapter! What was your reaction? Tense? Surprised? You predicted it? Write a paragraph describing your reaction. I kind off predicted that he was going to do something with Volt and kind off surpised that Volt is Tao father.

Chapter 18 Why does Tao feel he needs to go to the Mountain People? He feels he has to go to the mountain people because he has tell the people that Graybeard wants Tao to be a cave painter.

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.