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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?**
 * __Day 1 Response__

**By, shadow **
 * *To show how he feels about having dogs, it shows the readers that he wanted dogs so bad, and not any particular dog, he wanted two hound dogs. **
 * *Yes, well he knows how he was as a kid he wanted a dog so bad and he didn’t want to feel like that again, I bet he felt sad about it, but it was his choice. **
 * *Sadness, because he acts like his life is plain old boring as a grown-up and he acts very sad when he sees that poor dog in a dog fight. I would be sad if I saw a dog dyeing also, wouldn’t you? **
 * *He was going and doing things he wasn’t supposed to, and he kept on annoying his mom and dad to get him a dog. HE WANTS A DOG!!! **

**m and m** He absolutely loves hound dogs more that life he says he has a dog wanting disease.
 * to make it be more interesting and to show what his interests are and what he does and about his feelings.**
 * no its not strange because they are telling what had happened before and giving a detail of the previous activities so that you are updated on what’s going to happen and what already happened.**
 * he let them g because he has a home somewhere else that he should go to and his dad won’t let him have a dog even though he has a dog wanting disease.**
 * i felt mad and sad at the same time. Mad because he was just watching him and not even trying to help the dog. Sad because the dog is very skinny and you could tell he hasn’t ate anything by the way he walked and acted and looked. But his hips and the way he walked told his whole dog fighting story.**
 * He brakes the rules by not listening to his parents and lying to them. He caught the cat because he didn’t listen to his dad and do it where he was supposed to set the trap.** 


 * 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?**

 **m and m**
 * I have seen a kid at the playground being picked on because they were new and looked a little different, they were getting bullied.**


 * It felt good for the kids doing the bullying because they like being mean to other kids so they enjoy it as they do it. It felt scary and mean to the kids getting bullied because they are probably a new kid or dress a little different and it hurt their feelings but they wont run away because the bullies would chase them and they wont tell anybody what had happened because the bullies told them not to tell anybody or because they don’t want to be a baby.**


 * My world record would be to have the most shoes, I don’t know why but I think it would be cool to have the most shoes in the world because I could wear a different pair of shoes every single day.**

**I have never had a chocolate batter cake with chocolate frosting that has more then one layer.**
 * In Lightning Thief the mom and the boyfriend argue and it turns into a fight, and in Red Fern Billy argues with his parents and sometimes turns into a fight.**

<span style="letter-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(212, 17, 17);">By, shadow -I remember one time at this one school, I was bullied and so were my friends, and what did I do I defended myself, it might not have been the right thing but I didn’t waant to get hurt.

-get the most points in a soccer game, because soccer is my favorite sport and I love to make records, so I take two of my favorite things then combine them.

-I can remember when billy got beat up by those boys and that other time his dogs were beating up the conn.

-nothing really

**__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.**

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 * 1- In the book No Dogs Allowed there is a little boy who saw and found a stray dog, in Where The Red Fern Grows Billy saw and found a stray dog.**

<span style="color: rgb(255, 95, 0);">3- In the book In The Year Of The Boar And Jackie Robinson Shirley Temple Wong has a mom and a dad and in Where The Red Fern Grows Billy has two parents also.
 * 2- In the book Dive there is a boy who is close to the same age which is almost 11**

In this book I remember when he was in a fight I read a lot of other books with the main character in a fight.

-and when billy was hunting for food well in the other book I read called sasqautch when they were hunting for sasqatch

- and I would say the last connection I made was when billy was out tracking the coon with his dogs in the book called sign of the beaver they went out to hunt those moose with the dog. <span style="color: rgb(255, 39, 18);"> __Day 4 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.** <span style="color: rgb(255, 95, 0);"> <span style="letter-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(228, 17, 17);">shadow,

I predict that his dogs will go missing and he would have to find them, and the only thing in his way is his parents

He might put them in a hunting game like however can get the most coons in one day on the in the city (right out of town)

Not really it is really boring sometimes and it is only good some of the time <span style="color: rgb(255, 95, 0);"> m and m 1- I predicted that Billy would get the dogs and he did. 2- I predicted that Billy would tell and show his parents as soon as he got the dogs but he didn’t he let them know he let them figure it out on their own. 3- I predict that he is going to let them hunt other animals when they are good and trained. 4- I predict that Billy will have to go on along trip somewhere and he won’t be allowed to bring the dogs but he will try to sneak them anyway and get in big trouble and have to give the dogs away. <span style="color: rgb(212, 17, 17);">Shadow If there was a sequel I would predict that he would get another dog if something happened to the other dogs.

I think the author would change Billy by making him be more of a strong character with more friends.

I would recommend this to others because it is interesting and you always want to know what will happen next.

<span style="letter-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(255, 95, 0);">m and m
 * 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.**

I predict that the dogs will die and Billy will cry his eyes out and but new ones. Another prediction is I think that Billy will meet people or kids his age and become friends with them. I think that Billy’s parents will get a divorce and his mom will get married to somebody else and Billy will show his inner self and be more active. The author will make them more interesting and more active and have more characters. Yes I would because it is a cliff hanger and you want to know what happens next. Also if you like to always sit at the end of your chair then this is the book for you.

==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?==

Shadow In the book Billy has entered a contest, and he has passed the elimination round. He was now facing three other contestants. It keeps the reader reading because, contest are always exciting, aren’t they That Billy would win the contest and win tons of money! **<span style="color: rgb(255, 95, 0);">m and m ** <span style="color: rgb(255, 95, 0);"> **<span style="color: rgb(255, 95, 0);"> It keeps my interest by making exciting parts and cliff hangers. The fights were interesting also. ** <span style="color: rgb(255, 95, 0);"> **<span style="color: rgb(255, 95, 0);"> I think that Billy will make some friends and save up for another dog just in case.
 * <span style="color: rgb(255, 95, 0);"> There are fights and the dogs are coming more better at hunting and they are getting more things and it is becoming good. **

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