Sasquatch (MI9)

Sasquatch - Roland Smith



= = =Day 1 Response= What text connections are you making with the beginning of this novel? Given that this book covers "pop culture" of cryptozoology, how is it similar to television shows such as "Ghost Hunters" and such? What is happening so far? 

Spartan
==I have made the connection that I have been to church before. I have also made the connection that I have been to my dad’s office before and my mom has gone away on a trip before too. I is similar because some people think that ghost are fake and some people think that they are real, just like some people think that Big Foot is fake or real. The mom has just gone on her plane and then, Dylan and his dad went to a church and saw pictures of Big Foot, then they went to the dad’s office and they brought all of the furniture that he brought from the garage to his office back home to the garage. == B-ball23 I have made a connection to the part where the go to church. I have been to church and Dylan, the main character because he thinks that church is boring and so do I. I think that the encounter with big-foot, and Dylan's dad, is like some of the T.V. shows because they are always looking for something out of the ordinary.

shadow When they went in to the church that wasn’t really for a church, that happened to me once when I went with my dad to a buck show and it was inside a church. It is similar because they are both hunting for something like they are hunting for ghost and in the book they are hunting for a big foot. They are talking about the family and who they are and what they do. So far.

I made a text to self connection, I have been to a church before just like Dylan has. I also made another connection (text to world), there are monthly meeting about Sasquatch all over the world. In Ghost Hunters they cover the paranormal but in this book they cover an animal not ghosts and such. However there are some relations like, they both believe that their is something unknown in the world. They also both cover something that could be real and is not fiction (or so we think). Dylan a fourteen year old boy was suspicious when out of the blue his dad bought a ton of hunting stuff, even though Dylan was pretty sure that he had never fired a shot in his life. Then went on a hunting trip at a moments notice. He was gone a while and then when he came back has all scratched up and hurt but only said,“How late is the library open” and went to bed. Then his mom leaves on an architectural dig in Egypt. On the way back from the air port his Dylan’s dad stops at a church and they go in. It turns out the presentation was about Sasquach, and that was what Dylan’s dad was hunting. Dylan did some research on Sasquach or “Bigfoot” and learned a lot about the thing. Before they went home they stopped at his dads office and Dylan found out that his dad had not been working the last month, but doing research on Sasquach.  -K8SPORTS-

1.) One connections I made is that I have been to church and the main character Dylan thinks that it was sort of boring I think that after a while it does get kind of boring. Then another text connection I made was his dad (Dylan’s dad) was on a hunting trip he was gone for a very long time my dad once went on a work trip but it still he went for a long time. 2.) I think this book and Ghost Hunters are the same because in this book they are looking for Big-Foot and thats what they do in Ghost Hunters but they are looking for ghosts. -Vanillashake278-

[|Click on this link to investigate a "real, live, honest to goodness" bigfoot hunting expedition.] What does Dylan think of Professor Flagg's expedition? Click on the above link. View the videos at the bottom of the page regarding last year's Bigfoot body hoax from Georgia. How does the website portray SFBI (the real team)'s involvement in that hoax? Why would people attempt to pull a hoax like this? Would it be worth it? What might be the consequences?**
 * Day 2

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** Dylan thinks that Flagg’s expedition is worthless. They say that those people should not have done that. They might do it for fame or just to pull a joke on the people. I do not think it worth it to do something like that because you might get caught. You could have to go to jail of to court. Maybe you would have to help find stuff like animals that lived in the past or something. **
 * Spartan **

**He though that Dr. Flaggs expeditions were worthless. Dylan didn’t even believe in Sasquach. Mr. Jonathan says that Dr. Flagg is only doing the expeddition for fame and fortune, you have to put down $10,000 down to get a chair. -K8sports- ** By, shadow -Dylan thinks that it is dumb because why would you want to kill something that you don’t know how many of the species are out their, why would you want to risk to kill the last of their kind, but Mr.Flagg is right somewhat, if it was the last of its kind it could not reproduce if their is only one left,right? -Mr.m said skip website part! -If they found out that it is really real they could get tons of money,they would be rich! -It depends because everybody is saying different things about it. -the consequences are a lot of people could die you don’t know the reactions of the mystical creature.

Dylan thinks that Dr. Flaggs expedition is worthless. It is a waste of time and that they should just leave the sasquatch alone. They might just do it to become famous, or to play a joke on people. I don’t think that it is worth it to play that kind of trick, because there could be serious consequences. You may have to go to jail, or to court for something like that. B-ball23

__Day 3 Wiki Response 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.**

**spartan**


 * I have made the connection that in the** __**Sisters Grimm**__ **there are fairy tale creature and in the book** __**Sasquatch**__ **there a bigfoot, which is like a fairy tale creature. I have made the connection that in the book** __**The Sign of the Beaver**__ **there is a boy and his parents leave, just like in** __**Sasquatch**__ **Dylan’s mom left. I have made the connection that in the book** __**The Sign of the Beaver**__ **it is different when his parents leave, just like when in the book** __**Sasquatch**__**, it is different when Dylan’s mom leaves.**

-k8sports- 1) In the first book in the Twilight Series Bella’s father gets her a red truck. In Sasquatch Dylan’s father buys a huge 4-wheal drive red pick-up. **2) In the book “Where The Red Fern Grows” the boy has hunting dogs. This reminded me of when Dylan’s dad bought a lot of hunting stuff just to go on one hunting trip. ** **
 * 3) Sasquach is a like a monster, I have read lots of books about monsters like “Monster Hunters” and “Monster Madness”.

By,shadow the three text to text connections I made was, in the book they were hunting and in sign of the beaver they were also hunting, or while they were hunting I also made a connection with that, in the book sign of the Beaver the native americans went hunting also. The third connection I made was in the book hatchet when he went hunting.


 * B-ball23 **
 * I have read the book __Darkside__, and I think that it is like sasqutch because it is a fantasy. I have also read __The cay.__ I think it is like Sasquatch because there is two boys as the main characters. I think that it is like __Each Little Bird That Sings,__ Because it is boring, so far.**