Ana

Ana Dog..

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 cooking.

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. 2. Predict the resolution of each conflict. Example: conflict: Tayo needs to find a rabbit. predicted resolution: He will find the one he lost 1. One conflict was that he forgot about the rabbit and then got in trouble by the tribe. Also that he had to go back and find the rabbit or find a new one. Another one is that he found a little wolf and 2.I predict that he will not be punished and that he will find another rabbit because the little wolf had already eaten the rabbit. Tuesday, October 8, 2008 Tuesday, October 8, 2008 HOMEWORK: read chapter 2 CLASSWORK: answer the question below Chapter 2 What two important events happen in this chapter? 1. The two important events are that Tao had to spend the night in the wilderness all alone. Also that he found the little wolf and the little had a splinter of a bone in his tooth and that is why he is not eating anything.

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? 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. One taboo is that he has painted and drawn when he is not aloud to. Another one is that he saw the little wolf and didn't kill it. 2. The one he doesn't know about yet is that he has to kill an animal when he sees it so that he could talk it back to the tribe. 3. Volt believes that they a curse of evil and he will have none of them. ====%Proxy-Connection: keep-alive Cache-Control: max-Proxy-Connection: keep-alive Cache-Control: max-age=0 e=0 /h4> 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? 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? In the situation you imagined, should the person follow his or her dreams or should they follow society's rules? Give your opinion. I imagine that there is a women who is working as a hair dresser because her parents are making he. What she really wants to do is to be a construction sight builder. I think she should follow her dream because we should all be able to do what we want.====

**CLASSWORK Monday, October 27, 2008**
Chapter 9 Why do you think Graybeard changed his mind? What does this tell you about his character? I think Graybeard changed his mind because he wanted to give him a chance to be able to paint even though he is not the chosen. What this tells us is that he is a caring and knows that his heart is meant for drawing and painting. CLASSWORK Tuesday, October 28, 2008 Chapter 10 1. What are the "mountains-that-walk"? 2. What almost happened to Tao? The mountains that walk are like the earth, massive, shaggy old giants, lumbering out of the dawn. What almost happened to tao was that he almost got killed by the mammoths because he wanted to get food for he whole tribe.

CLASSWORK Wednesday, October 29, 2008 Chapter 11 Do you think Graybeard is a good teacher? Why? Would you like to have been taught a skill by him? Why? Yes I think he was a good teacher because he was teaching tao how to do something new that he didn't know before. Yes I would like to be taught by him because I would like to learn something new. 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? He added blood, eggs, and vegetables. Tao was afraid for his old friend. CLASSWORK Monday, November 3, 2008 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 I do not think that Tao should have "showed of because now they are going to use him so that they could get more food. 2. Predict what will happen next. If you've read ahead, invent an alternate scene. What I think will happen is that the hunters will go across the river and look for the wolf dog or some other kind of animal. CLASSWORK Tuesday, November 4, 2008 Chapter 14 1. Why does Tao cross the river? Tao crosses the river because he thought he heard Ram since he made Ram go to the other side. 2. What decision does Graybeard reach? The decision that Graybeard reaches is to go back to Tao's land of his people.. CLASSWORK Wednesday, November 5, 2008 Chapter 15 What problem does Tao have by the end of the chapter?

HOMEWORK Wednesday, November 5, 2008 Read Chapter 16

CLASSWORK 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.

Read Chapter 17 together in class (not for homework)

Chapter 17 Wow! What a chapter! What was your reaction? Tense? Surprised? You predicted it? Write a paragraph describing your reaction. I thought that it was a sad chapter since Graybeard died that day and Tao didn't even know anything until KALA gave him Graybeard's pouch.

HOMEWORK Thurssday, November 6, 2008 Read Chapter 18

CLASSWORK Friday, November 7, 2008 Chapter 18 Why does Tao feel he needs to go to the Mountain People? He needs to go because he needs to go see all the people he was with when he was born.