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 * Book Preview: List 25 questions the reader might have before opening the cover to read this novel.


 * 1) 1. Why are they in the dark?
 * 2) 2.Why are they in the woods?
 * 3) 3.Why dose he have an axe?
 * 4) 4.Why are there dogs?
 * 5) 5.Why are they looking at something?
 * 6) 6.Why is he out in the middle of the night?
 * 7) 7.What are the dogs’ names?
 * 8) 8.What are they doing?
 * 9) 9.Why did he look confused?
 * 10) 10.Why do the dog’s look hypnotized?
 * 11) 11.What kind of dog’s dose he have, and why?
 * 12) 12.Is he hunting?
 * 13) 13.Why is he hunting?
 * 14) 14.Where is he going?
 * 15) 15.Is he lost?
 * 16) 16.Dose he have a family?
 * 17) 17.How did he get the dog’s?
 * 18) 18.Why is he wearing overalls?
 * 19) 19.How much did the dog’s cost?
 * 20) 20.Did his family help him bye the dogs
 * 21) 21.Are the dogs related?
 * 22) 22.Are they boys or girls?
 * 23) 23.Where the doge razed by him?
 * 24) 24.Whats the persons name?
 * 25) 25.What is his last name.



__Day 1 Response__ The novel starts out with a flash forward. What might be the reason the author does this? Doesn't it seem strange, given that most stories that start with a prologue as a flash-back? Why might he have let the hound go? What general feelings do you get from the man (joy, sadness, regret, excitement...) How and why does the boy break his rules at home? What does he seem to love more than life itself? His dogs and hunting. He loves**

Soccergirl7 I think she did the flash back so it could interest the reader into the boys childhood. I think he broke his rules because he really wanted the money for the puppy's. He has puppy love more then he loves live his self. I love this book so much ,it is really interesting and I love dogs so I think it is a good book for me. Thank you for putting me with this book and I would defiantly want to read it again.

duetches

To tell how he had to get his dog when he was a kid how hard it was. There boring and I would rather know what happens after so you get an idea what happens. A kid maybe wants his dog and why would he keep it if its a kid. Sad because would if the dog got killed when he was going home. He wants to help a dog and save its life. The dog and his family because they protect him.

Maybe the author wants you to think what the possibilities are for when he almost reaches the fast forward age. Also what that might cause you to start thinking. Well at first I thought that he was old and going back to old memories. Then after I thought about it I noticed that it was a flash forward. It does seem a little weird because you don't know that much at first. Maybe he thought that it wouldn't be right to keep it from his master cause that's what he would want them to do. Or he might think that that would happen to him and he wouldn't like it. I get happiness because he got the dogs that he always wanted. He didn't do the work like he was supposed to because he was so depressed about the dogs that he wanted. It seems to look like he likes hunting with dogs more than life itself.
 * JUMPSTER

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Piggy08
Maybe because he wants to do a book where a situation happens with another person and then the main character tells his or her story and the rest of the book is the story. It does not really seem weird to me because there are a lot of the books that I read where it jumps forward. Maybe the dog was messing around and the man could not hold the leash. I get excitement because he is a mystery. I like when characters are mystery types. He breaks the rules because he wants the dogs really bad and he is scared that he wont get them. He likes hunting and being with his dogs.

Some kids at a school playground taunt him with the words "'Hillbilly, hillbilly.'" After they leave, he plays on a slide and believes he has set a record for the longest slide. Describe a time when you've witness kids being picked on. How did it feel for the kids doing the bullying & for the kid(s) being picked on? If you could pick a world record to break, what would you do? What Text-within-Text connection can you make about a fight, explain what this is. Billy gets his first ever bottle of soda purchased for him by the marshall. What haven't you ever eaten / drunk that you'd like to try?** 
 * Day 2 Response Question:

I have been picked on at school before by my "Best friend." And I know one thing and that is that it doesn't ever feel good at all. If I could beat any record I think that it would to be able to run the most and fastest in 15 min. When Billy got in a fight with the guys buy the school it reminded me of when early in the book he saw dog get in a fight with another dog and he helped the dog who lost the fight. If I could try any food and what would it be. Well I would want to try all the food in the world to see what I like and don't like.
 * JUMPSTER

duetches

When A kid was being pushed around and said he cant play a game of football. The kid being picked on was like he didnt fit in. The bully was feeling really good because he thought he was cool. I would like to save the most animals and be a record breaker. In movies that a counsler would bring in and show the class. i would like to taste caviear because it hard to find.

Piggy08 It made me upset and I stepped in and was the better person. I let that person play with me and We have been Friends since then. I know that it made them feel bad and I let them do what we were doing. We were playing not really know how to play. They told the player that was not good at it to go play if you did not know how to play. I have not tried cabbage and I would want to try it. I have not drank Orange pop but every one tells me that it is really good and that if I tried it I would like it.**

Soccergirl7 When I was in 2nd grad thes two 1st graders got into a fight and I stepped in and made them breck it up. I would want to berck the record of sleeding down a hill (key word hill not MT Evest) With a blue circul sled. I really want to try a fuezz it is a tipe of drink and I would like to try it. I would like to try beets the fruit.

__Day 3 Wiki Repsonse Question:__

 * In reading, strong readers often make connections to help make their book more interesting, exciting, and desirable to read. One type of connection is a text to text connection. This means that the reader is connecting some aspect of the current book they're reading to another book they've read. List three (3) text to text (t-t) connections you've made so far about your novel.**

He wants something so bad that he will do anything to get what he wants. I've read stuff like that before in a bunch of books. I think that that is cool that he will do anything to get the dog. A book that I've read that has that in it is A Mother To Embarrass Me. She wants to get rid of her mom so bad that she will do anything to get rid of her. He doesn't always follow the rules like he's suppose to. I the series of the lightning thief Percy never follows the rules. In this book Billy will and did anything to save his dogs. In the book Dangerous Dolls Delaware Spencer and Serena did what ever it took o stop the dolls. Also in both of the books they do what they have to do no matter how dangerous it was.
 * JUMPSTER**

The connections I have been making are in the book by Gary Paulsen called Guts. Gary Pauslen**
 * Piggy

duetches

In old yeller the same auther has a dog in it with an owner who loves dogs so much. So far this is a really good book and I love hunting.

Soccergirl7 I had make that I have a dog and he is a hunting dog. Another connection I have is that I have read a book about a buch a dogs it was called Vet Volinters Fight For Live I thought It was a really good book. My last connection is that I have read a book just like this befor but I forgot what it was called. I love this book and I really happy I got to read it.

__Day 4 Wiki Response Questions:__
Connecting prior knowledge and experience to reading deepens comprehension. I would like you to explain one type of connection that you've made with the book you've been reading. **__List__ and __explain__ the __type of connection made__ & __answer how this helped you to understand the story better__.

The four types of connections are: Text-to-Text (T-T) These connections made between the text and you are reading and what you have read elsewhere.

Text-to-World (T-W) These are connections made between the text you are reading and the bigger issues and events going on in the world.

Text-to-Self (T-S) These are connections made between the text you are reading and your own experiences.

Text-Within-Text (T-W-T) These are connections made between the text you are reading and another section of the same text.**

Soccergirl7 T-T I have read a book that has a lot of dog in it ,it was called Vet Volunteers Fight For Live. T-W In the book the dogs die, and this is a text to world because in real live dog past away. T-S I have a dog and his name is Leroy he is a dog just like the one in the book. T-W-T I remember in the book when the dogs dot into a fight.

JUMPSTER I'm doing T-W-T. I Remember earlier in the book when the two dogs that he saw got in a fight. Then I remembered later when him and the guys got in a fight. That helped me in the book on how to remember stuff. That also helped me a lot to remember some things in the beginning of the book. That also helped me to learn on how to make more connections in a book. Now I Know how to make better connections in the book. This book has a lot of things that happen more then once.

===**T-W is that some dogs that I know about were hunting with their owner and the owners brother. The dogs saw a racoon and went crazy. The brother had to shoot the racoon for fur, but he accidentaly shot the dog.**===

**My T-W-T is that Billy's dog Old Dan died and then Little Ann died. I t made me think that Little Ann and Old Dan died.**
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 * duetches

T-T In the book Old Yeller a dog is a saver and saves his owner.in the book when the dog saved his owner by the mountain lion.

T-W My dogs went to a coon training school. The dogs in the book they hunt coon.

T-S I love to hunt coon and i love dogs like billy. But I dont hunt like he does.

T-W-T When he gets in fight with the bully and he dies. When the mountain lion fights him he dies.

__Day 5 Wiki Response Questions:__** Good readers make many predictions while they are reading. Some predictions turn out to be true, while others are "off."

List some of your predictions you made while reading this novel.

What would you predict would happen if there was a sequel to this novel? What direction might the author take with the characters?

Would you recommend the novel to others? Why or why not? Explain.

Soccergirl7 Many predictions I made though out the book were that he was going to win the big hunt, and every time that the dogs got into a fight I thought they were going to die. I recommend this novels to others but it is a little sad. I recommend it because it is a very fun and adventuring book!!!

duetches

I thought that only Little Anne would die but she did not. And i thought billy would die but he didn't.

I think billy would buy a dog with the money that he got from the competion. I think they will make billy a kid who loves his new dogs. If you like sad books read it!

JUMPSTER One connection that I made is I always thought that Billy would catch a raccoon on his first time but he never did. Another is that I thought that he was going to get more dogs right after they died. I think that he would get more dogs then he would train them to hunt a different animal. I think that he would make them more responsible then they were before. I would because I thought that it was very interesting. Also I though that it was non-stop action.

Piggy08
==I thought as a prediction that the dogs were going to die.My mom told me that she read the book and that the dogs both die.I think that Billy will buy new dogs. I think that Billy would go back to hunting at his new house.==

__Day 6__
==As the novel is coming to a close, it is reaching it's climax. The climax is the most exciting part of the novel. What is happening in the book to lead you to think you are at the climax? Describe the action, how does it keep the reader's interest? What predictions would you make at this point?==