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CHAD READING LOG Prewrite

 * 1. What are you good at?** **Drawing is what I do best.**
 * 2. How do you feel when you're doing the thing you're good at?** **It makes me feel like expressing my feelings in different ways.**
 * 3. How would you feel if people wouldn't let you do the thing you're good at?** **That wouldn't be fair, art is like life and if its gone life wouldn't be there.**

Chapter 1
Example: sample conflict : sample predicted: conflict 1:** **Tao wanted to paint drawings in the caves but only the chosen ones are aloud.**
 * 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 (not having anything to do with the rabbit!).**
 * 2. Predict the resolution of each conflict.
 * predicted resolution 1:** **Tao should tell Volt that it's unfair only the chosen ones can paint in the caves.**


 * conflict 2:** **A wolf came with an empty stomach.**
 * predicted resolution 2:** **Tao gave the poor thing some food (rat).**


 * Answer the questions below**

Chapter 2
2. What was the resolution of the wolf's problem? Tao had to take the small piece of bone stuck inside the wolf's teeth. 2. Tao entered the slough. Why was this a good idea? Why might this be a bad idea?**
 * 1. WProxy-ConProxy-Connection: keep-alive Cache-Control: max-age=0 ction: keep-alive Cache-Control: max-age=0 wasn't the wolf eating? There was a bone stuck between the poor little wolf's teeth and it hurts when he eats.

1. In chapter 1, what does Tao really want to learn to do? A. draw B. hunt C. make a flint knife D. control fire
 * Answer the questions below

2. In chapter 2, what is stuck in the wolf's jaw? A. food B. a bone splinter C. part of a tree D. a flint knife**

Chapter 3
A. walk on a leash B. swim the river C. hunt D. escape Volt
 * 3. What do Tao and Ram learn to do together?

4. What decision does Tao tell Volt? A. he is going to hunt with the dog B. the dog's name is Ram C. he is going to look for his parents since he doesn't know who they are D. he is going to hunt alone but bring back food to the camp

5. Look at Tao's decisions and actions from Volt's perspective. Pretend you are Volt. Write a first person paragraph explaining how you feel.**
 * Chapter 4**
 * In a good paragraph, describe Tao's mother. What are the qualities of her character? List 3 qualities. Find evidence in the chapter to support your ideas.

Tao's mother was named Vedra, Vedra the mountain people. She made many things from earth and water and pebbles and the bones of fish; she made necklaces. From ivory and antlers she made beads and bracelets; even from the grass of th fields she made headbands and rings for the hair. Everybody loved the things she made, and she gave it all freely. But when Tao was a baby and he was weak and crippled it was a law to take him up to the boulders an left for the hyenas. She kept Tao anyways because she cares and love him even it was a taboo. She fought them like a cave lion, screaming, biting,refusing to give Tao up. (I felt like she loves him so much and I want a mother like that and she never gived up Tao no mater what! But I feel sad when she dies)

Answer the following questions**

Chapter 5
2. Which is easier for him and why? The wolf dog, because he can see what he was drawing and Tao saw Ram's body outlied againtsthe sky. **
 * 1. Which two animals does Tao try to draw? A horse and a wolf dog (Ram)

**CLASSWORK Friday, October 16, 2009**
Chapter 6 1. Graybeard realizes that Tao has broken two taboos of his clan. What are they? Tao hunted in forbidden lands and Tao hunts with wolf dog 2. Which taboo doesn't he know about yet? He didn't knew about huntng with a wof dog is a taboo. 3. Graybeard describes Volt differently than we have. What aspects of Volt's character is Graybeard acknowledging? That he is a good man and dreams about spirits and demons.**
 * Answer the following questions

**HOMEWORK Friday, October 16, 2009**

 * Read Chapter 7**

**CLASSWORK Monday, October 19, 2009**
1. Do you agree or disagree with Graybeard? Explain your answer. I disagree, because law is the rules and if you don't follow them there will be consequences. 2. What about if someone today told you about the thing you most love to do that, "It is taboo. Whether you believe in it or not makes no difference. It is taboo. It is the rule of our society and you must live by it." Would you agree with them? Explain your answer. Laws are bad things that you shouldn't do and you must obey, but laws aren't suppose to be things we all ways do like art, cooking, and hobbies. **
 * Write your reaction to the last paragraph in the chapter.

**HOMEWORK Monday, October 19, 2009**

 * Read Chapter 8**

**CLASSWORK Tuesday, October 20, 2009**
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.
 * Chapter 8

Imagine a similar situation today. Imagine a young person who wants to do something with their life that is different from what is normally expected in our society. What situation did you imagine? I imagined a little boy wanted to be a nurse but people laugh at him for no reason but no one ever thought about stopping and think

In the situation you imagined, should the person follow his or her dreams or should they follow society's expectations? Give your opinion. Hmm... I imagine a 10 years old boy, he is an intelligent person and his dreams are to be a nurse. Everybody laugh at him everyday. But, no one stopped and think about his dream could help us all and how money he can get. He really wanted to help the world. **

**HOMEWORK Tuesday, October 20, 2009**

 * Read Chapter 9**

**CLASSWORK Wednesday, October 21, 2009**
Why do you think Graybeard changed his mind? Maybe he was like Tao when he was a kid....... What does this tell you about his character? It tells that he is an empathetic person **
 * Chapter 9

**HOMEWORK Wednesday, October 21, 2009**

 * Read Chapter 10**

**CLASSWORK Thursday, October 22, 2009**
1. What are the "mountains-that-walk"? It means a mammoth 2. What almost happened to Tao? Tao almost got killed by a mammoth **
 * Chapter 10

**HOMEWORK Thursday, October 22, 2009**

 * Read Chapter 11**

**CLASSWORK Friday, October 23, 2009**
Do you think Graybeard is a good teacher? Why? Graybeard isn't, because in the book he sharply reached out and stopped Tao's hand. He always says "no" or "that is wrong". Would you like to have been taught a skill by him? Why? No, because I don't want to be taught aggressively. **
 * Chapter 11

**HOMEWORK Friday, October 23, 2009**

 * Read Chapter 12**

**CLASSWORK Monday, October 26, 2009**
1. Name some of the ingredients used to make paint. Which surprised you most? Red earth, yellow and white earth, limestone powder, fish oil, and some charcoal dusts. And the one that surprised me was fish oil..... 2. Why is Tao afraid at the end of the chapter? When he heard Graybeard was coughing hard he knew he wouldn't last. **
 * Chapter 12

**HOMEWORK Monday, October 26, 2008**

 * Read Chapter 13**

**CLASSWORK Tuesday, October 27, 2009**
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. I dont think he should becuase Volt hates wolf dogs and the clans aren't suppose to hunt with a wolf dog. 2. Predict what will happen next. If you've read ahead, invent an alternate scene. I don't know........maybe Tao was trapped and th others will get him and just maybe Tao was just hidding in a bush and Volt see him but the others didn't and Volt pretended he didn't saw anything.... **
 * Chapter 13

** HOMEWORK Tuesday, October 27, 2009 **

 * Read Chapter 14**

**CLASSWORK Wednesday, October 28, 2009**
1. Why does Tao cross the river? Ram the wolf dog was introuble; the hunters lashed Ram's legs 2. What decision does Graybeard reach? Graybeard told Tao to paint in the Secrete Cavern on th day of the hunt. **
 * Chapter 14

**HOMEWORK Wednesday, October 28, 2009**

 * Read Chapter 15**

CLASSWORK Thursday, October 29, 2009
=== === What problem does Tao have by the end of the chapter? He doesn't kw where the Secete Cavern is and he is lost. **
 * Chapter 15

**HOMEWORK Thursday, October 29, 2009**

 * Read Chapter 16**

**CLASSWORK Friday, October 30, 2009**
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

** Read Chapter 17 together in class (not for homework) **
Wow! What a chapter! What was your reaction? Tense? Surprised? You predicted it? Write a paragraph describing your reaction. I was really shock! I never even thought of that. I was so surprised... How could Volt keep that secrete from his son!?!? And Volt treated his son like trash...... Why would Volt do that to his own son.... **
 * Chapter 17

**HOMEWORK Friday, October 30, 2009**

 * Read Chapter 18**

**CLASSWORK Monday, November 2, 2009**
Why does Tao feel he needs to go to the Mountain People? Tao was following Graybeard's footsteps and he has to prove himself again.
 * Chapter 18

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

=ChaD IDENTITY POEM=
 * 1) ===**My friends and I follow all the latest fads.**===
 * 2) ===**I have my own unique style.**===
 * 3) ===**I always do what my parents and teachers expect of me.**===
 * 4) ===**I will follow my own dreams, even if others try to stop me.**===
 * 5) ===**I want to live with my family when I go to college.**===
 * 6) ===**I want to go to a college far from home.**===
 * 7) ===**I wouldn’t marry someone if my parents disapproved.**===
 * 8) ===**I will marry whomever I choose.**===
 * 9) ===**Being popular is important.**===
 * 10) ===**I don’t care what other people say about me.**===