Please choose TWO questions to answer.
1. Provide a definition of "vanquished". Find the word within the chapters and type the sentence. Use the word in a new sentence.
2. Karana made a mixture called "xuchal". a) What is it made of? b) How did it help her capture the dog she wanted?
3. What did she name her new dog, and what does the name mean?
4. How did Karana shield her eyes from the sun?
5. What happened when Karana went to sleep under her canoe?
6. How did Karana escape the tidal wave?
7. What happened as Karana was coming back from the spring?
8. What did Karana lose from the great waves?
9. Where did Karana get wood to build a new canoe?
10. What did Karana see when she went to gather seaweed?
11. Describe Karana's thoughts and feelings as she was deciding whether or not to hide.
12. Was Karana rescued? - Why?
13. How long was it before the ship returned?
14. Karana painted marks on her nose - what did they indicate?
15. The man in the gray robe wore an ornament around his neck. Who was this man, and what do you think this ornament was?
16. What had happened to the ship that had taken her people away from the island many years ago?
17. How long had Karana lived on the island alone? Karana is known in history as ___________.
18. The Island of the Blue Dolphins is also known as "La Isla de San Nicolas." It is part of what group of islands? Where is the island located?
19. Provide a definition of "notched". Find the word within the chapters and type the sentence. Use the word in a new sentence.
#3 Karana named her new dog that was Rontu's child, Rontu-Aru which means son of Rontu. He had his fathers think coat and yellow eyes.
ReplyDelete#14 Karana painted marks on her nose that were below her tribes mark, and that indicated that she was unmarried and that she was not a girl anymore. She made the marks by using blue and white clay for the dots that she put on her face.
#8 karana lost food, weapons and those were in the cave, she also lost the canoe she had been working on hidden under the south cliffs got all ruined by the great waves.
ReplyDelete#9 Karana went back to the south cliffs were she built her other canoe at first and then she gathered enough pieces of wood including the pieces she already had then she started to build another canoe.
# 10 She found a new ship that was coming to the island
ReplyDelete#18 It is located north along the California coast
# 15 Polished wood is what that ornament was made of and I think it represent that they have wood as a resource back home. # 17 La Isla De San Nicolas.
ReplyDelete17 - The question is how is Karana known in history?
ReplyDelete3. What did she name her new dog, and what does the name mean?
ReplyDeletekarana named the new dog, Rontu-Aru, it means that it whitch means Son of Ronto ( found on page 161 ). She named him that because he looked so much like his father.
4. How did Karana shield her eyes from the sun?
Karana got a piece of wood and made a little slit so she can see throw the wood but it would block the sun.