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Riordan Ryan

Please post comments on mine!!! No one wrote on mine so i can't write to any one. Should i write at the top or bottom?

Emily McDonagh

You should write on the bottom. I will write to you.

May 4, 2009 Chapters 1-3 Connection Creator

I think that the story relates to one book I read that is called __Pocahontas and the Strangers__. This relates to this book because the story has Non-Native American people come to their land from another place. They come from ships that they just start camping on the land where the Native Americans live. Both of the stories have their own tribes too, the Native American's both have a chief, and they all have a river near by too!!! I think that they write the same too because both writers sound like they really like Native Americans too.



Elizabeth Schauer May 4, 2009 Chapters 1-3

__Pocahontas and the Strangers__ does sound a lot like __Island of the Blue Dolphins.__ I wonder if Scott O'Dell knows the author of that book? If the other book was a newbery medal/honnor they possibly might have met each other at a convention for books. Or even while walking down the street. I don't know, but could you tell me if __Pocahontas and the Strangers__ is a newbery honor/award. P.S. It would be helpful if you put your name at the top.

Emily McDonagh May 4, 2009 Chapters 1-3

That could be possible that they could know each other. I don't think that the book is a newberry honor/award because I tried to look it up because I don't have the book but I'm pretty sure that it is not a newberry honor/award. I thought that the authors were the same but they are not. I think that if we could figure out if they were friends or not that would be so cool!! It seems like they both like to write about the Native Americans and they both like to write about girls in the Native American times when they only had the land to live off of. Do you think you will like this book??

Elizabeth Schauer May 5, 2009 Chapters 1-3

I think I might like the book. It just depends if the book is more like an adventure or a history type. I'll see tonight if I can find out if the book is a newberry honnor/award book. If not maybe Riordan or Abbie can find out too.

Elizabeth Schauer May 5, 2009 Chapters 1-3

I found out the year that __Island of the Blue Dolphins__ got a newberry award - 1961. I didn't find it under a newberry award but I found some books that you may have herd of. __Missing May, Maniac Magee, Bud Not Buddy,____Bridge to Terabithia__, __Sounder__, and From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.



 Emily McDonagh May 6, 2009 Chapters 4-7

Today my job to day is the Word Wizard. I found some words that I was unsure about so I will show you which ones don't make sence to me.

Ample- the definition is __enough__ maybe to eat or sleep

Pursue-it means to go after somthing

Shrouded- I think form the passage that shrouded means that the fog covered the island

Yucca Fibers- a peice of fabric from a plant *** __Riordan Ryan May 6, 2009 Chapters4-7

Oh my gosh! I made the connection that__ Island of the Blue Dolphins  __was like the movie Pocohauntus!! HA! I know what pursue is but I don't think I am suppose to tell you.

 __**Emily McDonagh May 11, 2009 Chapters 8-11

Today my job is the Passage Picker!! One part in the book that I found scary was on page 47 and paragraphs 4 and 5. It said that Ramo got attacked by the wild wolves up on the cliff. When Karana got to the cliff she saw her brother with a huge scrape in his throat ad a bunch of scratches on his back. He lay there dead on the ground and if Karana didn't come the wolves would have eaten him up without her evan knowing what happened to her brother. Another thing that was a little freaky was on page 50 and paragraph 3. That page said that she had to sleep under a rock and worrying that the wild dogs would come to her and kill her. She had to sleep every night worrying that the wild dogs might come and attack her during the night. ** 

 Emily McDonagh May 13, 2009 Chapters 12-14

Today my job was the Artful Artist!!! My picture shows how she was making her house for shelter which will protect her from the rain, wind, and wild dogs. She built a fence out of whale bones she found in the sandpits. She built her house by wood that was found on the trees, the whale bones, and some rocks. I hope you like my picture!! 

__** Emily McDonagh May 17, 2009 Chapters 15-18

Today my job is the Super Summarizer!! The pages I read was about when Karana finally had the guts to got to the cave where the wild dogs lived to get her revenge from when they killed her brother. When she got to the cave she burned some ash to get the dogs out of the cave when they came "crawling out" and she killed most of them but when the leader came out she threw the spear at the leader on the chest and really got hurt. When she kept looking in the cave for anymore the leader got away but not far. A little later she went down the path and found the dog a little bit into the forest and she felt a little sad for the dag and carried him to her little house and kept taking care of him until he got better. The dog kept staying wither so one night she decided to name him Rontu which meant Fox Eyes in their language. A few days later she heard dogs fighting so she started running toward the noise and found Rontu fighting the wild dogs. After she saw the dogs fighting she hid behind a bush and waited to see what would happen. Rontu won of course and got back to the house before Karana did. She went out one day to find some devilfish and they are very hard to catch but really tasty. A couple days later she found some birds and kept them in a cage. When they were old enough to fly she trimmed the birds wings so that they could fly away. She named one of the larger birds Tainor and the younger one named Lurai because Karana wanted that name instead of Karana. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 186, 255); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 175.692%;"> <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 186, 255);">

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<span style="color: rgb(0, 255, 255); background-color: rgb(0, 128, 128); font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Emily McDonagh May 22, 2009 Chapters 19-21

Today my job is the Discussion Director. These are some questions I wanted to ask all of you. Why did Karana move to a cave and not stay at her house? Why is Karana afraid of the Aleuts girl and not of the big men with weapons? Why is she thinking of moving to the ravine when the Aleuts girl goes down there to get roots everyday? Why did she camp in a rock near the Aleuts people when the could kill her and Rontu too? One more question that I wonder why the girl made a necklace for her??

Emily McDonagh June 1, 2009 Chapters 22- 25

Well a couple of days ago I had Artful Artist. I drew a picture of the story when the Mon-a-nee was stuck in kelp and had a huge cut on his back. When Karana saw the animal in the water she cut some kelp so that the Mon-a-nee could get out. I hope you my picture.

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In the last few chapters of my book I found some words that I didn't know. __ <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-size: 121%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-size: 121%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-size: 121%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-size: 121%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 255, 255); background-color: rgb(0, 128, 128); font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">
 * <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-size: 121%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> The first word I found was on page 173 paragraph 2 was <span style="color: rgb(28, 212, 68); font-size: 133.1%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">whence <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-size: 121%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> I didn't know what it meant so I asked Mrs. Suhr she said," It means-where," she said it was an old fashion for where.
 * <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-size: 121%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The second word I found was on page 163 paragraph 1 was <span style="color: rgb(0, 108, 128); font-size: 133.1%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">xuchal __<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-size: 121%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> it said in the book that it is a kind of plant that gives of poison and it is made up of tobacco and sea shells. __
 * <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-size: 121%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The third fragment I found in the story was on page 167 paragraph 2 it said the <span style="color: rgb(182, 12, 180); font-size: 133.1%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">crest of the of the wave passed over me <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-size: 121%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">. I think it means that the center of the wave went over her.
 * <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-size: 121%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The last and final word was on page 180 paragraph 4 was <span style="color: rgb(127, 0, 255); font-size: 133.1%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ocean thereabouts <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-size: 121%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">. I have no idea what the word is. When I asked my parents I herd that it means the area near the an ocean.

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