Island+of+the+Blue+Dolphins+(MI8)

**What would it be like living on an island? What would you enjoy? Is there anything you'd hate about living on an island? What role / job would you have if you were a character in this novel?**
duetches I would like to build a house out of wood but I would need the right tools.I would like to be the leader and pick jobs for the people and tell them what to do.No, only my family. I would love to hunt for food and be trusted.

moemoe411

I think it would be like being a native to the Island Hawaii. I would enjoy the living there and being able to swim every morning. Nothing that I would hate. Probebly I would be a gatherer.

twistle I would have to learn to hunt and not go to a store buy food. I would need to BUILD a house. I would not like it because of how I am alone and not be able to talk to anyone. On the other hand I would get some alone time and if I worked hard enough I could make it my own and also. I would help buid and find food for everyone but the one thing I would hate is the flies and other insects that fly. The animal would be terrible but would give me something to eat watch that means that I woudn't need to eat all fruit.

Soccergirl7

I might like it but I probably won't because I would have to hunt and kill animals and let's just say that I love animals I would be really sad If I had to kill an animal.So i would proble no surviv

Pewee07
 * I would not like to live on an island. I think it would be very lonely. I would most enjoy swimming in the sea and** **I would not like to live on an island. I think it would be very lonely. I would most enjoy swimming in the sea and wandering around to see what kind of animals there are. I would hate living on an island because you would have to find food yourself. Finding food yourself could take hours or days. I also wouldn't like living on an island because their could be meat eating animals. That would be horrible because the meat eating animals could eat me alive! I would be carrying firewood as my job then I will fight** **as a warrior!! But also I would have to hunt for my own fod. It would be hard catching it! I do not like killing animals, too.**

==**Have you ever been left at home alone? What was that responsibility like? Were you left with specific instructions or was it on accident? What types of rules would kids have it they are left alone? Describe IN DETAIL the feelings Karana felt when she realized Ramo was not on the boat with the rest of her tribe. Did she make a good choice? What would you do in t**hat same situation?
 * ==Day 2 Reflection:==

Twistle

Yes, I have been left home. I have to do a lot, but normally not much just clean the kitchen, scrape the driveway, and do my homework. This was all there plan and so I couldn't use the oven and burn down the house. I think that she was happy that she wasn't alone but sad that he had to stay. I would do the same for my brother.

moemoe411 Yes I was left home before. It was scarry and they left for church while I was sleeping. I was very sick that night so they just let me sleep. But they got an hour after I woke up. I was responsible for feeding the cats and cleaning the house. There was a chore list on the fridge. I think that she felt that she did not know what to do when she figured it out I think that she made a good choice. I would ask the chief to turn back

I have been left home alone. My responsibilities were cleaning my room, doing dishes, changing garbages, cleaning my rabbits cage, and putting away my clothes. I was left with specific instructions to do things. Cleaning your room, and doing all of your chores you should do when your home alone. Karana felt probally really sad because it is her brother which she loves him because they are family (brother and sister.) She also probally felt really angry that the ship wouldn't turn around to get her brother. I think she did a great choice of going back to see if her brother was okay. I would probally jump off the boat and try to see if my sister was okay. I would be like Karana to save a family member.
 * Pewee07-

duetches //Yes i'v stayed home alone. I had to clean my room,and clean the table off. Yes i had to stay there while my parents went to the store. I had to not eat because my parent thaught I would choke. She would feel scared and happy because your not alone. Yes she made a good choice to risk her life to go back. The same because I love my sister.//**

Soccergirl7 Yes I have been left at home alone. The responsibility's were I had to clean the house. Clean the backyard and then the worst part the basement I had to clean it all my by my self. There were no accidents. I had to lock the door and whatever I got out I had to put away. Yes I think Ramo made a good chose.

**__day 3 Response questions:__**
=**After the tragic events you read about, what is the most tragic event you've read about or experienced? What are the daily events like for Karana to survive alone on the island? What is the biggest obstacle she faces?**=

moemoe411 The most tragic thing that happened is when she tries to hunt a seal and she gets stabbed by one of their tusks and she has to crawl for five days. Well she has to go get water for her supper and hunt too. probebly when she has to crawl for five days and go get her food and drag her self over the rocky ravine.

The most tragic event that I think happend in the book is when the big ship leaves her brother behind. Then she jumps off the ship just to see if he's okay. But the next day her brother dies because of the wolves bite him a lot that is a really tragic moment because it's her brother was the only one person with her. Her daily events are thinking she doesn't want to live on the island for another day. Also, she sleeps on a rock for a couple of days but now she decides she needs to live in a sheltered place, so she had o build her self an house. She also needs to find more food and water those are the ways she survives on the island but also, she needs to kill the pack of wolves. The biggest obstacle she faces is trying to kill the wolves and building her self a hut.
 * Pewee07-

Soccergirl7 The most tragic thing that has ever happend to me was in second grade when I berned my hand on the stove. Here daliy events were trying to serviv on the island and thinking of ways to kill the wolfs who killed her brother. The biggest obstacle she has to deal with is probly the wolfs because they are trying too kill her and I don't think it is easy to have wolfs trying to kill you.**

twistle I think that when the brother is left there is tragic because that leads to his death. They would need shelter, food and water but their are some thing they have to stay away from like wolves. Facing that her brother died and fighting the idea of it.

I think its when her brother was killed by the wolfs. To be safe and not get harmed by the wolfs and find food. The wolfs because they want to kill her.**
 * duethes

moemoe411 T-T My conection is when Karana taimed Rontu and Rontu-Aru. This is a very simaler conection to it. When I was reading the book an other indian book witch I can not remember the name to there was a family with two wolves as pets. In the story the familie's father had caught the wolves and taimed them. They became very loyel animals to the family

Pewee07- T-T- In Kensukes Kingdom that I read a boy has been on an island alone. Untill he meets Kensuke. This is kind of like the Karana is alone on an island except she made a new freind. Her freind is a dog named Rontu but, he was one of the wild dogs that got stabed in the stomach by a spear. So they both made really close freinds. T-W- Karana is alone on the islands by her self and has barely any food. She has to find food, or hunt food, to make her houses. Starving people on islands alone is kind of like her but stuck on an island alone. T-S- Well Karana is alone on the island. When I was yuonger I got left on a beach all by my self because my parents accidently forgot me. T-W-T- When her dad died, her mom has already died. Which their the same text cause their both dead.

duetches text to text- On the movie home alone he has to protect him self .In this book she has to be protective and stay protected and kill the wolfs. text to world- People do not homes like she has to live in a cave.

Twistle- text-text This reminds me of Island the serious because they have to survive in both and have to build shelter and hunt for food.

__**Day 4 Response Questions**__
==Karana finds a spot on the island that she feels a strong connection to her ancestors. What "place" do you feel strongly about that has a "connection" to your family & family's history? Explain - describe the place in GREAT DETAIL (at least a paragraph)! Paint a picture with words that will help the readers of this wiki to visualize that place.==

moemoe411 Yes there is. You might not know this but I am french. The one place that makes me feel close to my ancestores is Marquett. This place was founded by a french priest. His name was Father Marquett. Father M. was friends with one of my ansetores. That is why.

duetches

I think the place is where her grandparents were buried because they started their family. The place where all my dads family were buried. Like my great grand parents and my grandma. Its in the middle of no where and its old graves like from the late 1800s! Theres a curch in front of it and a ton of pine trees and a lot of houses by it.

Pewee07- In Liverpool England my great great granddad played lawn bowl on a field. His ashes were all over the lawn bowl field because he loved it so much! Another important place is in Liverpool England too. My mum, my nanny, and my granddad were born there. So it means a lot to me. Another important place is Flint Michigan cause my dad was born there and I was born there. One day I would like to visit England to find were my mum lived!

Twistle Where my relative lived named Mary queen of Scott. This was called the cromo area the room looked nice a gold seat and a window 30 feet long right above the throne there were thirty inside. It could stand the forces of queen Elisebeth but this place is a sad place to because me relatives were killing each other but is apart of my family history.

Soccergirl7 A strong connections to my family is Hilton Head Island in South Carolina. We get a condo there for a week from Saturday to Saturday. Every day in the morning me and my dad would got to the beach and look for shells, And before we go to the beach we gte a donut. The third day in Hilton Head this year me and my dad went on a twelve mile bike ride around the island, Did I mention that we go down there every year and that we have been going down there for twenty years. Well that is my family connections to Hilton Head Island in South Carolina.

__**Day 5 Response Questions:**__
===Karana makes a new friend on the island. Is this an ironic twist or a natural progression of the story's events? How does this story event connect to earlier events involving Ramo? How does Karana feel about the "connection" she has to this new friend? Explain. How does Rontu help prove useful in Karana's struggle for survival?===

moemoe411 Rontu helped her survive by hunting for her and carieing things that were too heavy. That really can help because if you are on a journy and you have a ways to go that can help out a lot.

Twistle I thought it was ironic.

duetches

Ya kind of because there is new people in the book and I thought she was the only one on the island. Ramo was threned and she tribe to kill the girl if she did not give the wolf to. Good because she doesn't now if shes a slave or one of them. She has a friend to live with her and has protection of the other wolfs.

peweeo7-
 * I think it is ironic! It is kind of like her and Ramo because they are laughing, trading things, and talking to each other. I think the connection that she has with the girl is it reminds her of people on the island. Because she talks to her and laugh at each others jokes. Rontu helps her survive because he protects Karana & warns if there are any people on the island.**

Soccergirl7 Rountu helped by carrieing things that were to heafy ,and he caught the food for her. I think it is cool that she got a new friend finaly.

The novel ends with a rescue & escape. What discovery did Karana make about herself during the choices & trials she faced? How was the setting & ending different than if the novel took place during today instead of in the 1900's? What was the author's purpose for writing Island of the Blue Dolphins? How much did you enjoy the novel? What was your favorite part?
 * __Day 6 - 6 questions to answer__

Soccergirl7 I enjoyed this book a lot and I would probly read it again .I did not have a favorite part because I liked the hole book. I think the atour wrote the book because she wanted to tell peoplle you can come from diffrent place and stay alive.

moemoe411 I think that the author wrote this book to tell you that you can get attached to something and when it is time to leave it you just don't want to. My favorite part in the story was when caught Rontu-Aru and became attached to him and when they went fishing together and hunted and just played together. I think the discovery that she made was that even though her family and her friends are gone that she still had a conecction to the island. It probably would use different words that the sea elephant and wild dogs.I enjoyed the book very much And I am gonna read the book again.

Twistle That she isn't worthlessand can do stuff on her own and made friend.People would go crazy and people now are use to going to the store and buying food instead of hunting and cutting the food and seeing all that blood. I think the purpose of the book was about survival and to tell how hard it is to survivor in the wild. To tell you the truth I really didn't like it because to me it was kind of boring and I like more action but I thought that someone in my group likes it. Out of all of it I didn't like it but the part that is the best is when she meats the girl in the cave and they become friends.

duetches

That she is strong and can kill animals other than just make food and make cloths. There were indian wars with the americans and there were caves that she can live in for protection. To tell that you can live in the wild with out a family to cook and take care of you. A lot because I like when people have to live in the wild and hunt. I liked when the wolfs try to kill her.**

Her choices made were she has animal friends & human friends. She learns to make more weapons & makes good choices. She is a good hunter. I think she did a good job hunting her pray & making her house with tools that she could use to keep the wolves & foxes out. It would probably be more trees & more animals in the future. The setting would probably have more trees cause they grew more. I think the authors purpose is you can make friends with animals and you can make your own tools, supplies, & houses. I also think that you should never loose hope. In some chapters they were boring but in the other chapters they were exciting! My favorite part is when she finds Rontu. It was so sad yet happy a th same time because she finds a friend!**
 * pewee07-