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Monday, October 6, 2008
Prewrite 1. What are you good at? I'm good at decorating things 2. How do you feel when you're doing the thing you're good at? I feel good because i have fun decorating things 3. How would you feel if people wouldn't let you do the thing you're good at? If someone stop me from decorating things then i wouldn't be able to know how to spend my weekend

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. The first problem is that Tao likes to draw but drawing is a taboo. The second problemis that his mom is dead and is he doesn't know where he is. 2. Predict the resolution of each conflict. conflict: Tao likes to draw but drawing is a taboo. predicate:he is going to try to change that.

Conflict:His mom is dead and he doesn't know where he is Predicate: i think he would go find his dad

Wednesday, October 8, 2008 Answer the question below

Chapter 2
What two important events happen in this chapter?

1. He figured out that the wolf wouln't eat nothing because the wolf had a splinter in his jaw 2. Taowent into a tunnel and he suddenly was in a large cave.

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

2. What decision does Tao tell Volt? Tao decides that he is going to hunt by him self.

3. Look at Tao's decisions and actions from Volt's perspective. Pretend you are Volt. Write a first person paragraph explaining how you fee If i were ever to be Volt I would be mad. If Tao doen't pay attention to me then I won't help him any more.The wolf would not help Tao to hunt.Instead of the wolf hunting for food he would eat TProxy-Connection: keep-alive Cache-Control: max-age=0 .Tao is getting himself.

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 was a brave woman. She was brave because she never wanted to let go of Tao. She was also brave because she fed Tao and she died for Tao. Tao mother would make necklaces,bracelet, and other things. Since Tao is good drawer his mom would also she the animals and things in the cloud. Her name was Vedra

"I am happy now"he said. 1.He learned about his mom 2.He's glad of what he learned about his mother. 3.He was simaliar to his mom

Chapter 5
1. Which two animals does Tao try to draw? The first animal he tried to draw was a horse, the second animal is a wolf dog(Ram) 2. Which is easier for him and why? The wolf dog(Ram) was easier to draw because Ram was there to draw but the horse, he had to remember how to draw him.

Chapter 6
1. Graybeard realizes that Tao has broken two taboos of his clan. What are they? The first taboo that Tao has broken and Graybeard knows is that he draws. The second taboo is that e hunts with a wolf dog (Ram)

2. Which taboo doesn't he know about yet? He doesn't know that hunting with a wolf dog is a taboo.

3. Graybeard describes Volt differently than we have. What aspects of Volt's character is Graybeard acknowledging? Graybeard says that he is a goodman but dreams of spirits and demon, often.

Chapter 7
Write your reaction to the last paragraph in the chapter. Do you agree or disagree with Graybeard? I disagree with graybeard because since Tao has no family so he found something he loved, drawing and it's like taking alway a family member alway forever.

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? I think it's not true now but on those times it was. The reason because of this is because right now people can draw all they want but in Tao's times he wasn't able to draw, only the chosen ones could draw.

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? One thing that i could imagine about a situation like Tao's, is about a poor guy fells in love with a rich women. One of the problems is that the rich women is a ready married but the women doesn't like the guy she is married with, her mom forced her to marry that guy. So the guy is in love with the rich women and the rich women is in love with the poor guy. Another problem they have is that once the rich women's mom figured that the women is in love with the poor guy the mom tries to stop the women from having a relationship with the poor man. But the girl followed her heart and left to live with the man she fell in love with the poor guy.

THE END
In the situation you imagined, should the person follow his or her dreams or should they follow society's rules? Give your opinion. I think what the women did was good because she followed what her heart told her to do. Any way with her mom she lived a horrible life with the guy she married she even hates that guy

Chapter 9
Why do you think Graybeard changed his mind? I think Graybeard change his mind because he say that Tao really loves to draw and he knows that Tao is a good drawer.

What does this tell you about his character? Graybeard is a person who will give other people chance and not just say that you will never be able to draw.

Chapter 10
1. What are the "mountains-that-walk"? It means that since the animals were big they looked like mountains. 2. What almost happened to Tao? Tao almost got killed by the big animals but Ram saved him.

Chapter 11
Do you think Graybeard is a good teacher? Why? Yes Graybeard is a good teacher because he has been drawing for a long time Would you like to have been taught a skill by him? Why? I would like to be taught by him because Graybeard knows what he is doing and knows how to do it.

Chapter 14
1. Why does Tao cross the river? Tao crosses the river so that he can find Ram. 2. What decision does Graybeard reach?

Chapter 15
What problem does Tao have by the end of the chapter? The problem Tao has at the end of the chapter is that Tao got lost in the cave.

Chapter 16



Chapter 17 Wow! What a chapter! What was your reaction? Tense? Surprised? You predicted it? Write a paragraph describing your reaction. I knew that Volt was Tao's dad so i wasn't really that surprise. But i am happy that Tao finally know who his dad is.

Chapter 18 Why does Tao feel he needs to go to the Mountain People? Tao wanted to go to the Mountain People so that he can prove him self again.