The+Cay+(MI10)




 * Pre-reading questions.**

What do you think about war? How do images on television and the movies make you feel about life where there is conflict? Do you know anyone who has gone "off to war"? Describe how the main character feels about the war and how it changes his life.
 * Day 1 Reflections:

Test1 I think war is necessary but still terrible. People die or get killed. Sometimes it is necessary to defend yourself or your family, so people feel responsible. I hate watching TV because images of war or violence makes me feel sad and uncomfortable. My dad went to Vietnam and was a POW for a while, but he got rescued. He didn’t want to talk about the war for a long time, so I know it made him feel sad /angry / mad. Philip thinks the war is cool at first, but then finds out that school gets cancelled, and lots of things change which makes it not seem so much fun. By BigMac7 ** ** I do think it’s necessary because you have to defend yourself. I don’t like it when it’s lethal and your family members die or get assassinated. I do like war on video games and on t.v. not so much. My uncle is a solider in Vietnam. His name is Phil. Philip (main character) does like the war at first but not when he’s forced to move away from the war! Els42 I think war is bad and that there should be no more war. I think that it is gross and I don’t like to watch stuff like that. My teacher’s dad went to the Vietnam war. At first he thinks that it is cool but then learned that people die and that it is not cool anymore.

sun-shine6 I think war isn’t necessary all the time because it can get too violent. I know its necessary to use war to defend yourself. It can make me feel icky and weird sometimes. No, but my cousin is going to the army soon! At first Phillip feels excited and thinks its cool. Then after a ship is destroyed he knows that it is a bad thing and feels sad. **

**I think war is horrible!!! I mean I know they are just there to fight for our country to get us special privileges, but more than half the time, people get killed!!! I think movies and animated war stuf teaches you the total wrong thing about war and conflict. the only time i think good of animated television is when it is sesame street or barney when they are actually teaching you something. I don’t know anyone that has gone off to war. The main character loves war. he says that the next time he sees a german u-boat, he is goingto go jump on the ship with his friend and attack the u-boat.**


 * written by lollipop4life10**

__Day 3 Reflections:__
==In the novel a tragic event takes place. Describe that event in detail. Think about the fear involved for the people. How would you react? Have you ever been out on the open ocean? What types of fears involving nature do you have?==

**By:Bigmac7/Mankindsbiggestfan **  The tragic event that happened, 1st the ship gets torpedoed and Phillip gets separated from his mother. When Phillip gets on the life boat a big 4x4 falls on his head and he gets knocked out. When Phillip wakes up he finds himself on the life boat with Timmithy. The next day he wakes up and it’s dark around the edge of his eyes and it’s blurry. Tim tells him to go to sleep... he does and when he wakes up he’s blind. When the boat blows up I would freak out and think I would die!!! If I wake up blind I would just give up. No i’ve never been out on the open sea. 1 of my fears involving nature is shark!!!! I won’t ever go swimming up to my waist in the ocean or out 50Ft from shore in the lake.

sun-shine6 Phillip, the main character, was on a boat that was torpedoed. The boat caught on fire and sunk. Phillip was with his mother, who got him and herself overboard. Phillip and his mother fell into the water, but Phillip’s mom got Phillip on a raft! Before he was on the raft he got hit in the head with something really hard. He was knocked-out and when he woke up he was with a stranger on a floating raft out at sea. Everyone on the boat was probably scared to death! I would have held on to who ever I was going away with and swam with all my might to stay up! I have never been on the open ocean! I’ve always been afraid of getting lost in the woods!

Ells42

Philip was on a ship that got torpedoed. The ship burst into flames, everyone had to evacuate the ship. Philip and his mother were getting onto a raft when it just dropped and went plunging into the water. A thing fell and smacked him on the head. He woke up and was on a raft, he looked around and only saw a black man with a cat. For a long time he was stranded on the raft with him. He woke up after a nap and his eyes hurt so he went back to sleep. The next time he woke up it was dark. He asked what time it was the man answered 10, Philip said at night. the man said you are blind? Philip went blind that day. if i was Philip i would be scared, really scared. No i have never been on open ocean. I don’t like sharks.

By: lollypop4life10

phillip was on a freighter to virgina, when it was torpedoed.the ships mast fell uppon him and knocked him out. he then woke up on a raft with timmothy, the ships worker. timmothy is a big, old, and muscular man. along the ride they find stew cat, the chefs cat. timothy has much of an accent, wich makes him hard to understand.a couple days later, Phillip wakes and he's blind! I would have been scared to death!! i have never been on the open ocean, but when im mad at someone, I wish I was. fears on the ocean would be being eaten by a shark and or falling off the boat!

Wally I would be really scared. And no I never been alone on the open ocean before. I am really scared of tornados and earth quakes.

Phillip becomes blind during the story. This is a serious obstacle for him to overcome. What BIG problems have you overcame in your life?
 * __Day 5 Reflection questions:__

Mankindsbiggestfan. Some stuff i've had to come over in my life was my broken arm in 1st grade. Another thing was my love life i've had trouble with. and one of my last problem was my sickness on Christmas eve and another times..

Ells42 I have had to over come my brother getting a rake stuck in his head and cracking his head open with a golf club. Also my little brother getting his head cracked opened 2, once with a rock and once on the bus **

I have overcome my 2 great grandma’s deaths and the fact that I have never met 3 people in my family that died before I was born. I also was 5 years old when I was playing with my cousin. We were thinking of funny words and sitting on opposite sides of the very messy room. I had thought of he funniest word every! FLABBERGASTED! I wanted to go over to sit by her but stepped on a toy! I fell and scraped by back on a METAL toy box! I was crying and bleeding all over! My cousin ran to get my mom and when they were back, everyone had heard about it! My mom picked my up and sat me down in a chair. It was really hard sitting the way I was. It was a dining room chair and I was sitting on it backwards! Everyone was worried about me because I was crying for a really long time ** !
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 * //By: lollypop4life10

when i was five years old and i was going to girl scout camp, i always had to go to our troop leaders house after because i didn't have any one to pick me up. on the first day of camp i was excited. So when i got to my troop leaders house that night, i had to go to the bathroom as soon as i got there. When i came out i forgot that there were stairs in front of me and fell down all six until i ran into a baby gate. On my way down i bit a HUGE chunk out of my lip and swallowed it, therefore i had to get six stitches and for the rest of the week, everyone at girl scout camp was getting close to my lip just to look at it. I called my lip the pancake lip because it stuck strait out of my mouth, even when it was closed! i still have a big scar on my lip to this day.//**

__**Wally**__ === Having to where glases they anoid me so much I had to were them every day for 2 years I hated it. Then I switched to contacts they hurt so bad but I wore them for a year now I only have to where them when I read or play video games. And in first grade I sliped and fell skided into the wall ad craked my head. ===

__**Day 6 Response Questions**__
==Phillip and Timothy both are becoming more comfortable with each other as people. Phillip starts to warm up to Timothy. Phillip thought that the Dutch boys were racist, but many of his thoughts were very similar. Why do you think that Phillip thought he wasn't racist, but had very strong feelings that might otherwise prove he was? Explain - BE SPECIFIC!== Wally === I think is not rasist he was just born in the wrong place wrong time and was told to believe it so he has a bad back ground and that makes him sound mean so I think he is a good guy and so is Timothey. ===

By:Bigmac7/Mankindsbiggestfan I think Phil thought he wasn’t racist because he is depending on tim. Even though he had strong felling about tim, he still thought racist thoughts about Tim. His mom might of been racist because she said “Blacks have their place and we have ours.” To me that is racist.

ells42 Phillip does not think he is racist because he might not know what it means. He is racist because he thinks the have there places and we have ours, also that they are just dumb old blacks.

**sun-shine6 **
===** I think that he might have some anger issues because he isn’t with his parents and Timothy could be a really stubborn old man sometimes. He might not know what the word specifically means either! Phillip has thought some very mean thoughts about Timothy and others that aren’t just like him and I thought that shows that he probably is racist. I would say that he didn’t think he was racist because he might think that it’s an in sult or someone who is bad! Wally I would be scared I would be really scared! in fact I would be angry. I would try to make a compass and find my way back. that is what I would do. **===

**by : lollypo4life10

Phillip might have thought that he wasnt racist because he wasliving with this black guy that acted as if he were Phillips**
 * father and Phillip felt as if he was his father and thought of him no different. Then some of his thoughts like the ones** **his mom gave him like " we have our place and blacks have theirs".**

**Why was Timothy helping to change the island's landscape? How was it related to his condition? What big problem is on the horizon?**
===**Explain the idea of "self-sacrifice" and how it happens in the story. Why did one character do what he did for the other? What was the end result? // Mankindsbiggestfan Timothy:His problem was that he had to provide for Phillip. He also protected Phillip during the hurricane... as a result he pasted away. Phillip:His problem was that he was blind and he was by himself on the Cay, to find food and survive with Stew Cat. I think Timothy's is worse because he left Phil all by himself... and he died for pete's sakes. Timothy was changing the envirnment by making guide line for Phillip. He also tied everything to a tree for the storm. It was related to Phil's problem because he was blind and he wanted to get ready for the storm. The big problem was the hurricane. The reason Tim did the self sacrifice thing is because he wanted to let Phil to live. The result in him sacrificing is he died. //**===

ELS42 Timothy got sick and Phillip got blind. Phillip's problem seems worse. Timothy was making it so Phillip could still walk around if he was not there. It was so if he died Phillip could still do things that he needed to. A hurricane was coming. Timothy used himself to take the worse part of the storm. I think Timothy did it to keep Phillip safe so he might be able to get home. Timothy died after the storm.

Waly Timothy he’s old hurt and is in a lot of pain so I feel bad for him. Because he was 70 years old he’s going to die. A self sacrifice is when someone gives his life for some one else and Timothy gave his life Phiup

sun-shine6 Phillip is blind because he was hit on the head by something really heavy and got a concussion. Timothy then told him not to look into the sun too much but Phillip didn’t listen. He then became blind over night! Timothy was very sick one day with a very bad fever. He woke Phillip up when he was talking in his sleep. Phillip then felt his forehead to discover that it was burning! Timothy then went crazy and rolled into the water trying to put out the fire on his head! Phillip going blind because he can’t see anything ever again! I think that Timothy was doing all those things because he cared about Phillip and his safety! The things that Timothy makes help Phillip find his way around the island! They know that when the hurricane comes they will be in big trouble! Well, self-sacrifice means that you will give up your life for someone else! It means that you’ll do anything for them to be safe! Timothy sacrifices himself so that Phillip can be safe! Timothy protected Phillip from the storm so that Phillip would be okay! Timothy then died from all the water and winds! The end result was that Phillip was alone! Well, except for Stew Cat! 