Melissa

Melissa's Eleven Essay Melissa's Becky essay Monday, October 6, 2008 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 handball,reading, and at basketball and they are also my favorite three things to do for fun. 2. I feel relax,and happy when I am doing the stuff I am good at I am also having fun while I do the stuff I am good at. 3.I wouldn't feel happy because I am not doing what I want to do and it is unfair.

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 (not having anything to do with the rabbit!). 2. Predict the resolution of each conflict.

1. The other two problems were that Tao forgot to hunt for food. He had also made a problem because they don't have any food to eat. 2. I predict that the solution for the conflicts were that Tao should go and try to get food. The other solution was that they should go help Tao to get the food so that they can eat and they can see if Tao is actually doing what he was suppose to be doing.

Wednesday, October 8, 2008 Answer the question below Chapter 2 What two important events happen in this chapter?

1. One of the important events that happened in the story was when Tao is very hungry and can't find a lot of food. 2. The second important event that happened was when Tao wasn't allowed to come back to his clan.

Friday, October 10, 2008 Chapter 3 1. What do Tao and Ram learn to do together 2. What decision does Tao tell Volt? 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.

1. Tao and Ram learned to hunt. 2. The decision that Tao tells%Proxy-Connection: keep-alive Cache-Control: max-age=0 the volt is that they should get help from the wolfs for there huntingProxy-Connection: keep-alive Cache-Control: max-age=0 0and so they can get plenty of food. 3.If I was Volt I would stop saying no to everything and start trying to think of a plan so Tao and his clan would get food .Volt should also agree with someone like Tao to get enough food .I agree with Tao's idea witch is for the wolfs helping them hunt for food.

Monday, October 13, 2008 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 young girl who was only 16 years old. She was a girl who could fight her own battles and was a person who stand for her rights! She also had fought for her own baby. She had died for being weak. Before the moons of summer she grew weak.

Friday, October 17, 20008 Chapter 5 1. Which two animals does Tao try to draw? 2. Which is easier for him and why?

1. The two animals that Tao drew was a horse and a wolf dog. 2. the easier picture that Tao drew was the wolf dog because he had one right in front of him and it was much harder for him to draw the horse because he had to try to remember how the how the horse looked like.

Monday, October 20, 2008 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?

1. The two taboos that Tao had made was him drawing and him being with a wolf dog. 2. He doesn't know that Tao was hunting in the slough. 3. That he is cruel and that he gets really mad when someone does a taboo.

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 disagree with Graybeard because it is not right that Tao cant draw.I think that Tao should be allowed to draw because it's his passion and because he is great at drawing .I also think that he should be allowed.

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?

1. The situation I had imagine is women not being a elictrician. I think if they want to be one they should because they might become a great elictrician and can be able to do something the other person can't do.

Monday, October 27, 2008 Why do you think Graybeard changed his mind? What does this tell you about his character?

1. I think he changed his mind because he felt sorry for Tao because he will never be the chosen one. 2. It tells me that Graybeard is a nice guy that keeps secrets and is not like the others that will tell Saxon he would also help people that want to do something they want like drawing.

October 28, 2008 1. What are the "mountains-that-walk"? 2. What almost happened to Tao?

1. The mountains-that-walk are the mammoths. 2.Tao was about to be attacked by the mountains-that-walk.

Wednesday, October 29, 2008 Do you think Graybeard is a good teacher? Why? Would you like to have been taught a skill by him? Why?

1. Yes, I do think Graybeard is a great teacher because he let Tao draw even if Tao isn't a chosen one .I also think he is a great teacher because Tao is learning to draw good because of him. 2. Yes,because I would like to be as good as him and he has so much experience.

CLASSWORK Thursday, October 30, 2008 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?

1. Some of the ingredients were yellow clay,bright earth to make red paint,and limestone powder. The one that surprised me the most was the yellow clay.I never thought that you can use clay for paint. 2. Tao is afraid at the end of the chapter because he is afraid that something might happen to Graybeard because he is coughing a lot.

Monday, November 3, 2008 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.

1. I think that he made a wrong decision because now Volt found out that he is not hunting alone but with Ram. 2. What I predict that might happen is that Volt is going to send the people to go find the wolf dog so that they can kill him.

Tuesday, November 4, 2008 1. Why does Tao cross the river? 2. What decision does Graybeard reach?

1. Tao crosses the river to go get Ram from the other side of the river. 2. The decision that Graybeard had made is to go to Tao's village to help him in his problems.He also wanted to get permission so that Tao can paint in the Secret Cavern.

Wednesday, November 5, 2008 1. What problem does Tao have by the end of the chapter?

1. The problem that Tao has is he got lost he forgot the way he was suppose to go and it was Graybeard that told him the passage before he forgot the passage.

Thursday, November 6, 2008 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.

1. My reaction was surprised and amazed.I didn't predict but I wish I did .From my reaction I actually thought the story was nice and I liked it because it was a story about a boy wanting to be a cave painter.

Friday, November 7, 2008 Why does Tao feel he needs to go to the Mountain People?

1. So that he can be%