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Monday, October 6, 2008 Prewrite 1. What are you good at? sports\soccer 2. How do you feel when you're doing the thing you're good at? happy good 3. How would you feel if people wouldn't let you do the thing you're good at? sad and unhappy Tuesday, October 7, 2008 CLASSWORK 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. Tao meets a wolf and gives it food but the wolf didn't want it.Tao was running away from the hunters.

CLASSWORK: Wednesday, October 8, 2008 Answer the question below Chapter 2 What two important events happen in this chapter? Tao found the same wolf again so he started talking to the wolf why is he not hunting. Tao found paint and started painting on the walls and painted a wolf.

CLASSWORK Friday, October 10, 2008 Answer the questions below Chapter 3 1. What do Tao and Ram learn to do together? Tao and Ram learn how to hunt together. 2. What decision does Tao tell Volt? To make tao hunt for the food for them. 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. If I were volt

CLASSWORK Monday, October 13, 2008 Read Chapter 4 in class. Answer the following questions 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 fought for tao to keep him forever. And bite and fought for his son. She wouldn't let nobody take her son away from her ever. I would call Tao's mom really brave.She fought until she got weak and she died.

CLASSWORK Friday, October Proxy-Connection: keep-alive%2Proxy-Connection: keep-alive Cache-Control: max-age=0 ache-Control: max-age=0, 2008 Finish reading Chapter 5 in class Answer the following questions Chapter 5 1. Which two animals does Tao try to draw? He draws a horse and a wolf dog 2. Which is easier for him and why? The wolf dog was standing outside cave and the horse he had to memrize the horse really good.

CLASSWORK Monday, October 20, 2008 Answer the following questions Chapter 6 1. Graybeard realizes that Tao has broken two taboos of his clan. What are they? He draws on the walls thats a taboo the other is hunted with a wolf dog. 2. Which taboo doesn't he know about yet? He walks on forbidden land. 3. Graybeard describes Volt differently than we have. What aspects of Volt's character is Graybeard acknowledging? Graybeard describes him like hating the wolfdog he says that they are evil spirits.

CLASSWORK Thursday, October 23, 2008 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? 1. I agree with graybeard because would you step on the flag and get away with it. 2.My reaction is you shouldn't do it without get permission or its it not a taboo. 3.Maybe with is clan it is true now to draw on walls but maybe alot must of thought it wasn't back then true you can't draw to do it.

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, where a person's desires go against society's expectations What situation did you imagine? A poor person wants to be a soccer star but he doesn't get support from his family. In the situation you imagined, should the person follow his or her dreams or should they follow society's rules? Give your opinion. He should become his dream a soccer star first school get a scholarship to go to the big leagues.

CLASSWORK Monday, October 27, 2008 Chapter 9 Why do you think Graybeard changed his mind? Maybe because he thinks he could become a better painter and maybe the hunters will see his paintings and they will let him paint. What does this tell you about his character? That he want tao to paint and maybe become his teacher. CLASSWORK Tuesday, October 28, 2008 Chapter 10 1. What are the "mountains-that-walk"? The walking mountains are big mammoths. 2. What almost happened to Tao? Tao was almost killed by the mammoths.

CLASSWORK Wednesday, October 29, 2008 Chapter 11 Do you think Graybeard is a good teacher? Why? Yes why because he is a master at painting or drawing. Would you like to have been taught a skill by him? Why? Yes because he knows what he is doing.He is a cavepainter for the clan.

CLASSWORK Wednesday, November 5, 2008 Chapter 15 What problem does Tao have by the end of the chapter?

The problem is that tao went into the cave and his lamp went out of light.

CLASSWORK Thursday, November 6, 2008 Chapter 16 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 was suprised about it because I didn't know that I Dog Del Aguila, Patrick February 12,2009 Period 2 Dear Mom and Dad,

I suggest we get a dog for a pet because if we do keep the dog or get one it will guard our house from robbers so nobody can steal from us ever. So our will be safe with the dog by our side and we have a 65% chance of not being robbed that is really good. The second reason is that they can save our lives or tells us when an earthquake is going to happen about a minute before an earthquake happens. Third reason is that I really want a dog.

Now I am going to tell you why we should we should keep the dog it will be good if you can have safe house. So that would be really good if you had a guard dog. Next is that if we had a dog we can be ready for an earthquake. Then we really really really want a dog.

My concerns are that if we had a dog we could have safer house

ELEVEN Del Aguila, Patrick February 26,2009 English Period 2

The story we read was called eleven the author’s name is Sandra Cisneros. This is a brief summary about the story. It is about a girl that her birthday is today and while she is in class the teacher Mrs. Price says whose jacket is this then a girl named Felice Garcia said that the jacket was Rachel’s and it wasn’t hers so after class a girl named Phyllis Lopez claimed that it was her jacket so her birthday was ruined.

This is why she is credible she wears ugly sweater reason the teacher makes her she is credible because you have to do what the teacher said.

Becky Essay Del Aguila, Patrick March 3,2009 English Period 2 The story Becky & the Wheels and Brake was written by James Berry. It tells of a girl named Becky who really wants a bike but can’t get one until the end of the story Becky is a credible character. She shows that she is credible through what she feels, says, and does.

Becky is believable because she wants to fit in with the other children. For example, Becky thinks,” I only want to be with Nat, Aldo, Jimmy, and Ben.’’ ”They all have bikes, and she wants one too, so she can ride and play with them. This proves Becky is credible because lots of people have a time when they want something that will help them fit in with other kids.

Becky is a believable character because she keeps begging her mom for a bike. For example ”Over and over I told my mom I told my mom I wanted a bike.’’ A while later she tells her mother. ”I still want to have a bike badly.” In order to get what she wants, Becky she has to ask several times and give reasons for how she feels towards the item. This shows Becky is believable because many kids love begging for things until they get them.

Finally, another reason that Becky is a credible character is because she always fought with her friend. As an example, Becky thinks, ‘‘For the first time me and Shirnette had a real fight because I hated her the most.’’Shirnette wanted to get back at Becky because Becky had put a centipede up her shirt, so she got even by putting a cockroach in Becky’s Blouse. This proves Becky is a realistic character because a lot of best friends get fights, but then they make up.

In conclusion Becky, the main character in ’’Becky and the Wheel and Brake Boys,’’ is believable because of her emotions, her words, and her actions. That means that she is your average child

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