Monday, July 16, 2007

English Lesson - Wednesday 18 July 2007

Using the narrative curve which you have done yesterday, write a story based on the Picture (Poor Cindy). You must start the story (Opening scene with Cindy lying on the thin mattress in the kitchen. The task must be submitted to Luke by Thursday, 19 July.

Luke,
Please collect the compositions and put them in my book drop. Do attach a class list (you can get a copy from the general office), and put a tick against those who have handed in. Thanks a lot.

English Lesson - Tuesday 17 July 2007

Task (1)
Part (A)
(1) Start a new page on your vocabulary logbook.
(2) Copy the narrative curve (on Transparency) used to plan a story based on the writer’s understanding of the picture.
Part (B)
(1) Start a new page on your vocabulary logbook.
(2) Based on the picture (Poor Cindy) and the newspaper article written about the girl’s plight, plan a story using the narrative curve based on your imagination.
You must make sure that you begin your story with Cindy lying on the thin mattress in the kitchen. Do refer to mind maps done over the past few days for suitable vocabulary and ideas.

English Lesson - Thursday 19 July 2007


Tybee Prayer, originally uploaded by briancmagill.

Part (A)
(1)Start a new page on your vocabulary logbook.
(2)Divide the page into 4 columns.
(3)Name each of the columns - Characters, Setting, Situation,
Vocabulary
(4)Fill in each of the columns what you think based on what you see in
the picture.
Part (B)
(1)Read the article printed on the other side of the picture.
(2) Fill in the 4 columns again (using a different colour) using the information given in the article.

Flickr

This is a test post from flickr, a fancy photo sharing thing.

Friday, July 13, 2007







Monday, July 9, 2007

(1)confronts : To come face to face with, especially with defiance or hostility

(2)skirmish : A minor battle in war, as one between small forces or between large forces avoiding direct conflict.

(3)disgruntled : to put into a state of sulky dissatisfaction; make discontent.

(4)slinking : to walk or move in a slow, sinuous, provocative way.

One important aspect of Karana is her resilience.Though The White Men's Ship doesn't return for her for eighteen years, and though her efforts to establish a comfortable life on the island are repeatedly thwarted, she never shows signs of despair. Karana is often sad, as when her brother was killed, or frightened, as when she was injured by the sea elephant and stalked by wild dogs, but she never gives up. She is always looking ahead to her next task on the island.

(1)http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dolphins/canalysis.html
(2)http://www.sanedraw.com/NOTEBOOK/ISLANDBD.HTM
(3)http://teacherweb.com/NC/LJCDS/Amber/h0.stm

Friday, July 6, 2007

Attention to group 5

I got to say is that i didn't see any jun kit's post,so please post something,jun kit,or else i tell miss chia that you didn't participate,thank you.

Thursday, July 5, 2007

Resilience_2.0

Resilience

Karana is the main character in Island of the Blue Dolphins. She is the only human being on the island. Living alone on the island tests her resilience, and as the story progresses, Karana grows through her experiences into harmony with herself and the world around her. She learn many new skills and how to fight at what ever that comes her way.

In the the book Karana begins to feel lonely as the wild dogs kill her only family, Ramo. Karana swears that one day she will kill all the wild dogs. When she is on the verge of achieving this goal, however, and has the opportunity to finish off the head of the pack, she does not kill it. Instead she brings the head (whom she later names Rontu) back to her house and nurses him back to health.

Another important aspect of Karana is her resilience. Though the white men's ship doesn't return for her until eighteen years later. Her efforts to establish a comfortable life on the island are repeatedly and she never shows signs of despair and she never gives up. She is always looking ahead to her next task on the island.

Links:

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dolphins/summary.html

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dolphins/canalysis.html

http://www.sanedraw.com/NOTEBOOK/ISLANDBD.HTM

island of the blue dolphins(courage)mike

Left alone on a beautiful but isolated island off the coast of California, a young Indian girl spends eighteen years, not only merely surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance, but also finding a measure of happiness in her solitary life. The girl name karana show her great courage and will to survive alone on her small island braving the fierce dogs and the wild weather.In an effort to escape Aleutian seal hunters in the early 1800s, the Indians of Ghalas-at board a ship to leave the Island of the Blue Dolphins. When 12-year-old Karana finds that her younger brother is not on board, she use great courage to dive into the sea and swims back to the island in search of him dispited. Years pass and Karana waits for the ship to return. In the meantime, she builds shelters, gathers food, makes clothing, fashions weapons, and conquers the wild dogs that killed her younger brother.. She lives out her solitary life on this island for many years hoping that a ship will eventually come and take her to where her family and village have moved. It is only after eighteen long years that she is rescued and taken to a mission. It also depicts karana.character whose courage and determination help her survive against nearly impossible odds.
links(http://www.smarter.com/island_of_the_blue_dolphins---pd--ch-1--pi-6572886.html(http://dimdima.com/bookbuzz/show_books.asp?q_bid=80&q_title=Island%20of%20the%20Blue%20Dolphinsre

Forgiveness - NuRuL aka IfAh X)

The first enemy Karana forgives is not a person, but a dog. Rontuis an enemy because he is the leader of the dog pack that killsRamo and threatens Karana. He is also an enemy because he isan Aleut dog, and the Aleuts are Karana’s enemies.

After Ramo is killed and Karana is left alone on Ghalas-at, she has many enemies and no friends. She is harassed constantly by the wild dogs of her island, and lives with the vague fear in the back of her mind that one day the Aleuts that killed her people will return to the island. Eventually, Karana is forced into confrontation both with the wild dogs and with the Aleuts. In each case she has the opportunity to take her revenge, but doesn't. The case of Tutok is the most important of these because it shows the development of Karana's trust in more detail and to a deeper extent (in the case of Rontu, the only thing Karana and Rontu to show trust was refrain from killing each other). In the case of Tutok, Karana is mistrustful because Tutok is an Aleut. She has seen first hand what happens when one deals with these people, and has likely inherited some of the dislike and mistrust her father had for them. Even when Tutok makes friendly gestures, Karana is aloof and assumes that Tutok will betray her to the Aleut hunters. It takes a long time for Karana to see that Tutok has no ill intent, but it is some time before Karana makes a gesture of trust on her own. When Karana reveals her secret name to Turok, it is her ultimate sign of trust, for she ascribed her father's death to his decision to reveal his secret name to someone not worthy of trust. What Karana receives from her trust is a rewarding relationship that she will remember and think about for the rest of the novel.



Links :
http://www.scholastic.com/Kids/homework/pdfs/Island_of_the_Blue_Dolphins.pdf
http://www.sanedraw.com/NOTEBOOK/ISLANDBD.HTM
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dolphins/themes.html

Summary (Survival) - Naimah

1) Karana, a Native American girl, is accidentally left alone when her people abandon their island home off the coast of California (Island Of the Blue Dolphins). After a failed attempt to leave the island in a leaky canoe, Karana decides to build a house and learn to hunt while waiting to be rescued. Her isolation from humans teaches her how to co-exist peacefully with the local wildlife, even the wild dog she considers her worst enemy. After many years, missionaries come to the island, and Karana, yearning for human companionship, goes with them to the mainland.

2) When the rest of Karana's tribe leaves to find help, Karana finds herself in a position where she has to fight to survive until someone returns for her. Karana spent a lot of time gathering food. An island girl is separated from her tribe and must learn how to survive on her own. Through threats of wild animals, natural disasters, and invaders, Karana learns to apply her skills toward keeping herself alive.

3) When a tribe of islanders leaves their home in search of a safer place to live, they accidentally leave behind a twelve-year old girl and her young brother. The boy is soon killed by wild dogs, and Karana swears to devote the rest of her life to destroying the wild dogs who killed her little brother. Karana must learn, through various hardships, to get by without the help or wisdom of her tribe. She is not lonely; eventually she befriends and tames various wild animals, including the leader of the wild dogs. After years of hating the dogs, she slowly comes to realize that it is easier to live in peace than to be constantly at war.

Taken from :
1) http://www.classzone.com/novelguides/litcons/dolphins/guide.cfm
2) http://astore.amazon.com/science-books-20/detail/0440439884
3) http://www.commonsensemedia.org/book-reviews/Island-Blue-Dolphins.html

Resilience

Another important aspect of Karana is her resilience. Though the white men's ship doesn't return for her for eighteen years, and though her efforts to establish a comfortable life on the island are repeatedly thwarted, she never shows signs of despair. Karana is often sad, as when her brother was killed, or frightened, as when she was injured by the sea elephant and stalked by wild dogs, but she never gives up. She is always looking ahead to her next task on the island.



Karana and her brother, Ramo,waited for the white men's ship to return to the island for them. Karana waited for them for 18 years, but Ramo only waited for about less than 1 year. Ramo died from attacks of the wild dogs in the island. Karana is often sad about Ramo's death, when she think about the fear when she saw the wild dogs and sea elephants.Her father had also died from the shot of the Aleuts.Now her family is gone and left her alone in the island.But she overcomed the fear and sadness. She never gives up and always look ahead to her next task on the island. ..



Karana also would use the materials available to create what she needs.Karana fights for her survival with the skills and tools of her culture. She builds a shelter for herself, largely from whale ribs, and makes spears, nets and many household items that she requires.



Links : http://www.lsu.edu/faculty/jpullia/3223historical2.htm
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dolphins/terms/charanal_1.html
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/anthro/outreach/Indbibl/bibcalif.html

Courage

Karana, an Indian girl, lives happily with her people on the Island of the Blue Dolphins. It is an island in the Pacific that gets its name from its beautiful shape — from above it looks like a dolphin lying on its side, "with its tail pointing toward sunrise," sunning itself in the sea. Around it blue dolphins swim, otters play, and sea elephants and sea birds thrive. Karana's people live in harmony among the other animals on and around the island as they have for generations. Her father is the chief of the village. And then one day a boat comes captained by a Russian man, who "looked at the little harbor as though it already belonged to him." The captain and his crew wish to hunt sea otter on their own terms. Their disregard for the ways of the Indians leads to bloody consequences, and Karana's family is destroyed, and eventually with the arrival of more white men, the entire community disappears from the island, save Karana.
For years she lives on the island alone, using the skills of her people to survive. For the first time, she modifies the skills only the men of her village had mastered. She makes a fence from the ribs of a whale. She builds a house. Eventually she becomes comfortable alone. She befriends one of the wild dogs, and the blue dolphins still give her strength. But she will not be alone for much longer.
1.http://content.scholastic.com/browse/book.jsp?id=2353

Based on the true story of the last woman of San Nicholas, ISLAND OF THE BLUE DOLPHIN is written as a first person account of a young woman's survival. The Aleut hunters who came to the island to hunt otter killed most of the men of Ghalas-at and plundered the villages. When the remaining islanders departed for a nearby haven, twelve-year-old Karana, realizing her younger brother Ramo has been left behind, jumps from the boat and swims back to the island to take care of him. She gathers food, builds shelter, and makes tools to survive. In order to take revenge against the wild dogs that killed her brother, Karana must make weapons, something that had been forbidden to the women of the tribe. After many moons and suns, she realizes that her people won't be coming back for her. As the years go by, Karana learns to respect all of the animals of the island, and eventually tames Rontu, the dog who had killed her brother. Based on the true story of the last woman of San Nicholas, ISLAND OF THE BLUE DOLPHIN is written as a first person account of a young woman's survival. The Aleut hunters who came to the island to hunt otter killed most of the men of Ghalas-at and plundered the villages. When the remaining islanders departed for a nearby haven, twelve-year-old Karana, realizing her younger brother Ramo has been left behind, jumps from the boat and swims back to the island to take care of him. She gathers food, builds shelter, and makes tools to survive. In order to take revenge against the wild dogs that killed her brother, Karana must make weapons, something that had been forbidden to the women of the tribe. After many moons and suns, she realizes that her people won't be coming back for her. As the years go by, Karana learns to respect all of the animals of the island, and eventually tames Rontu, the dog who had killed her brother.
2.http://www.literatureplace.com/bookfolios/bookfolio.asp?BookfolioID=138

Karana progresses through several states of loneliness during her time on the island. When she is first stranded, and he brother is with her, she does not mention feeling any loneliness at all. Though she is worried about herself and her brother, she does not feel any lonelier than she did with her people. This is because she has the benefits both of human companionship and of the hope that the white men's ship will return to take them away. After Ramo is killed, Karana is sad, but still not so lonely, because she knows that any day she could see the white men's ship on the horizon. Karana's first winter on the island is the most difficult for her, because her hope of being rescued any time soon dies with the coming of the first winter storm. This is Karana's point of deepest despair in the novel, when she sets out on her own for the land to the east. When Karana returns from her trials on the sea, she sees her island in a whole new light; she sees it as her home. The familiarity of the island reduces her loneliness, but does not replace what she had before. When Karana meets Rontu, she finally has someone to talk to. Not until then does she realize how lonely she had been on the island. Rontu is nice to talk to, but he never talks back. It is not until Karana meets Tutok that she has someone to talk with. Again, Karana had not known how lonely she had been without Tutok. Each level of loneliness is tolerable until Karana experiences something better. This is a problem for Karana when Tutok leaves, because she now feels the empty space in her life that Tutok had filled. The desire to have someone to talk with lingers with Karana for the rest of he story, and it is probably the main reason she decides in the end to leave her home and go out into the unknown.
3.http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dolphins/themes.html

Summary
After the death of karana's father,Karana and her tribe decided to leave the island for good,but knowing that her brother was not on board she quickly search for him and found out that he was not on board and thinking that the ship will turn back for her brother but did not she jumped of the ship showing not only how strong her kinship is with her brother but also courage to live with her brother although she was furious that she spoiled her best handmade skirt.Having a thought that the ship will return for them one day,Karana and her brother have a light hope for the returning ship but little do they know that on the way to the white men's island they ship sunk into the sea for there was a storm on their way on.Karana and her brother hunted food to keep on surviving but on one faithful day Karana's brother was killed by the dogs and she swear that she will take revenge for him.Never the less did she knew that he became friends with a dog that is the leader of the wild dogs,they became best friends and whenever Karana felt lonely she can always chat with Rontu-her dog's name.She was given alot of trust by Rontu and his son.Keeping her save from dangers while keeping her company.Giving her courage to live and stay healthy untill one day the white men came to take her to their island which is the place where she can start a new life.

isWAryA

WHEN A PERSON FIGHTS FOR HIS RIGHTS AND WHEN IT IS CONNECTED TO THE REAL WORLD IS LIKE YOUR FRIEND TELLING EVERYONE IN YOUR CLASS THAT YOU STEAL HIS HANDPHONE WHEN YOU DID NOT STEAL AND THATS WHEN YOU FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHTS.

WHEN PEOPLE CARRY WEAPONS WITH THEM IT MEANS THEY ARE TRYING TO PROTECT YOURSELF OR SOMEONE AND WHEN IT IS CONNECTED TO THE REAL WORLD IS LIKE THE POLICE GIVING PROTECTION FOR A PRESIDENT.

Moral development

When Karana is first left alone on the island, her moral ideology is more or less identical to that of her people. As the story progresses, however, Karana develops her own moral code. The laws of Karana's tribe forbid women from making weapons, a fact that Karana struggles with constantly as she pits superstition against necessity. The first time she makes weapons, she is very fearful; the second time she is less fearful but still nervous; the third time, when she makes the spear to catch the devilfish, she does so without any misgivings. Indeed, she makes that spear almost as a hobby, for catching devilfish is not a necessity. Another way in which Karana departs from her tribe's rituals is through her friendship with Tutok. After the incident with Captain Orlov, the people of Ghalas-at become the sworn enemies of the Aleuts. Karana, however, gives Tutok a chance, even though she is an Aleut and potentially very dangerous. Eventually, Karana eve learns to trust someone she had formerly considered an enemy. A final way in which Karana divulges from the ideology of her people is her decision not to kill any more animals. Hunting and killing animals was a necessary part of her tribe's economy, but Karana no longer wishes to kill animals because she sees them as very much like people. Karana admits that her friends and family would likely find her decision that animals are like people amusing, but she has come to it through her own experience sticks by it.




As the only human on the island of he blue dolphins, Karana is left to develop her own moral code. We know that Karana cares deeply for others even at the very beginning of the novel, as is demonstrated when she plunges into the sea to go back to the island for her brother. Later, she is faced with different types of decisions. Faced with thce neessity of hunting and defending herself from the wild dogs, Karana need to make weapons, something that the laws of her tribe forbid women to do. The stories say that weapons made by women will break just when one needs them most. After long deliberation, however, Karana decides to make a set of weapons for herself, and soon realizes that the old tales were false. Later in the novel, after Karana has befriended a number of the animals of the island, she decided not to kill anymore animals on the island again kill any of these animals. This is a significant decision, because she is dependant on a number of these animals for material. However, she considers animals to be very much like people, even though they do not talk. She knows that her tribesmen would consider her resolution ridiculous, but her animal friends are so important to her that she cannot bear to kill them.



Karana is always on the lookout for the Aleuts. She knows they will return someday, and when they do, she will not put herself in harm's way by running into them. Over time, Karana makes a life for herself. She builds a home, and even stocks a cave with provisions she will need should she ever become sick. When she was first marooned, she used animals for food and tools and clothing. After many years alone on the island, Karana decides not to kill anymore. The animals have become her friends and her companions, and though she knows her people would think she is silly, she cannot bring herself to harm them for her benefit.




Summary (my example:


When Karana was left alone on the island,she had been dependant on herself and had started to think differently unlike before. Karana have make weapons for herself and had forbid the laws of the tribe. After she has befriended the animals on the island and even though the tribes men will think she is silly, she still could not harm the animals because they are to important to her.


Summary (taken bits from each examples):


When Karana is first left alone on the island, her moral ideology is more or less identical to that of her people. As the story progresses, however, Karana develops her own moral code. The laws of Karana's tribe forbid women from making weapons, a fact that Karana struggles with constantly as she pits superstition against necessity. The first time she makes weapons, she is very fearful; the second time she is less fearful but still nervous; the third time, when she makes the spear to catch the devilfish, she does so without any misgivings. Indeed, she makes that spear almost as a hobby, for catching devilfish is not a necessity.After Karana has befriended a number of the animals of the island, she decided not to kill anymore animals on the island again kill any of these animals. This is a significant decision, because she is dependant on a number of these animals for material.When she was first marooned, she used animals for food and tools and clothing. However, she considers animals to be very much like people, even though they do not talk. She knows that her tribesmen would consider her resolution ridiculous, but her animal friends are so important to her that she cannot bear to kill them.

FORGIVENESS

FORGIVENESS

Karana finds on her island is a capacity for understanding and forgiveness. These come mainly through her need for companionship. By the end of chapter eight, Karana has two sworn enemies: the Aleuts and the wild dogs. When the wild dogs kill Ramo, Karana swears to herself that one day she will kill them all. Although she is motivated partially by a desire protect her own safety, there is a vindictive air to her vow. When she is on the verge of achieving this goal, however, and has the opportunity to finish off the leader of the wild dogs, she does not take it. Instead she brings the pack leader (whom she later names Rontu) back to her house and nurses him back to health. Though she admits she does not understand her own actions, she is later glad of them, for Rontu becomes Karana'a close friend and companion in a world where she is otherwise alone.
Information from:
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dolphins/canalysis.html

In the same way, Karana repeats over and over that the Aluets are her enemies, and that she is afraid what will happen to her if they find her on the island. However, when Karana is surprised by the Aleut girl, Tutok near her house, she does not attack, though she is in easy reach of her spear. Again, Karana does not know what stayed her hand, and is initially distrustful of Tutok, but eventually Tutok, like Rontu, becomes Karana's friend. Both of these cases highlight not only Karana's need for companionship, but also her ability to forgive and to see past the labels of those around her. She gave Rontu and Tutok a chance in spite of her fear, and her reward was friendship.

Information from:
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dolphins/terms/charanal_1.html

Karana's growing aversion to unnecessary killing develops the theme of community. She chooses to rescue and domesticate the otter—a gesture of protest against the Aleuts and Russians who come from the north to massacre the otters for their fur—and decides not to shoot an arrow at a sea lion that could provide her with ivory needed for implements. She waits until two battling male sea lions provide her with a dead animal in the natural order of things. These decisions culminate in her refraining from killing the enemy Aleut girl, Tutok. Even though Karana is especially afraid of the girl, who might betray her to the other Aleuts, she withholds her weapons, and a fruitful friendship ensues. In the cases of both Rontu and Tutok, Karana's ability to put compassion and forgiveness above vengeance is rewarded by friendship. But her friendship with Tutok causes Karana to feel more deeply her need for human society, and after her friend's departure, Karana looks forward with renewed intensity to the day of her rescue.

Information from:
http://kids.aol.com/homework-help/language-arts/book-notes/island-blue-dolphins

SUMMARY
Karana needs companionship as she is lonely in her island. After the wild dogs killed Ramo, she swears to kill all of them one day. Although she is motivated partially by a desire protect her own safety, there is a vindictive air to her vow. When she is on the verge of achieving this goal, however, and has the opportunity to finish off the leader of the wild dogs, she does not take it. Instead she brought Rontu, the pack leader back to her house and nurses his health. Karana is glad she had chosen to nurse his health and not killed Rontu.

Karana mentioned that the Aluets are also Karana's enemies and that she is afraid what will happen to her if they find her on the island. Karana met Tutok and she is one of the Aluet but she do not attack even though she is in easy reach of her spear. Karana is initially distrustful of Tutok but eventually, Tutok, like Rontu, becomes Karana's friend. Both of these cases highlight not only Karana's need for companionship, but also her ability to forgive and to see past the labels of those around her. In both cases of Rontu and Tutok, Karana's ability to put compassion and forgiveness above vengeance is rewarded by friendship.

Karana chooses to rescue and domesticate animals and not killing them. For example, the otter - a gesture of protest against the Aleuts and Russians who come from the north to massacre the otters for their fur - and decides not to shoot an arrow at a sea lion that could provide her with ivory needed for implements. Karana culminate in her refraining from killing the enemy Aleut girl, Tutok. Karana is specially afraid of Tutok, who might betray her to the Aluets. But her friendship with Tutok causes Karana to feel more deeply her need for human society, and after her friend's departure, Karana looks forward with renewed intensity to the day of her rescue.

Information from: http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dolphins/canalysis.html

: http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dolphins/terms/charanal_1.html

: http://kids.aol.com/homework-help/language-arts/book-notes/island-blue-dolphins

DEFINITION OF WORDS :

1. vindictive: meaning - disposed or inclined to revenge; vengeful.

2. initially: meaning - of, pertaining to, or occurring at the beginning; first.

3. aversion: meaning - a strong feeling of dislike, opposition, repugnance, or antipathy.

4. domesticate: meaning - to take (something foreign, unfamiliar, etc.) for one's own use or purposes; adopt.

5. massacre: meaning - the unnecessary, indiscriminate killing of a large number of human beings or animals, as in barbarous warfare or persecution or for revenge or plunder.

6. ivory: meaning - the hard white substance, a variety of dentin, composing the main part of the tusks of the elephant, walrus.

7. culminate: meaning - to reach the highest point, summit, or highest development.

8. withholds: meaning - to hold back; restrain or check.

9. vengeance: meaning - infliction of injury, harm, humiliation, or the like, on a person by another who has been harmed by that person; violent revenge.

10. intensity: meaning - great energy, strength, concentration, vehemence, etc., as of activity, thought, or feeling.

Definitions from: http://dictionary.com/

Forgivenss - NuRuL aka IfAh

The first enemy Karana forgives is not a person, but a dog. Rontu
is an enemy because he is the leader of the dog pack that kills
Ramo and threatens Karana. He is also an enemy because he is
an Aleut dog, and the Aleuts are Karana’s enemies.

Website summary:
http://www.scholastic.com/Kids/homework/pdfs/Island_of_the_Blue_Dolphins.pdf

The heroine's many virtues:

  • Will to survive.
  • Self-reliance, ingeniousness, adaptability. She is knowledgeable about her tribe's skills, and creative in devising replacements for the animals she renounces killing.
  • Compassion and forgiveness.
  • Patience and Foresight. She is willing to wait for the right season, she makes plans for the future.
  • Optimism. She makes the best of her situation--when she finds she cannot flee, she commits to making the island her home by building a shelter.
  • High self-esteem. She rejoices in her own accomplishments. She shows respect for herself by dressing and looking her best even though there is no one to see her.
Website summary:
http://www.sanedraw.com/NOTEBOOK/ISLANDBD.HTM



After Ramo is killed and Karana is left alone on Ghalas-at, she has many enemies and no friends. She is harassed constantly by the wild dogs of her island, and lives with the vague fear in the back of her mind that one day the Aleuts that killed her people will return to the island. Eventually, Karana is forced into confrontation both with the wild dogs and with the Aleuts. In each case she has the opportunity to take her revenge, but doesn't. The case of Tutok is the most important of these because it shows the development of Karana's trust in more detail and to a deeper extent (in the case of Rontu, the only thing Karana and Rontu to show trust was refrain from killing each other). In the case of Tutok, Karana is mistrustful because Tutok is an Aleut. She has seen first hand what happens when one deals with these people, and has likely inherited some of the dislike and mistrust her father had for them. Even when Tutok makes friendly gestures, Karana is aloof and assumes that Tutok will betray her to the Aleut hunters. It takes a long time for Karana to see that Tutok has no ill intent, but it is some time before Karana makes a gesture of trust on her own. When Karana reveals her secret name to Turok, it is her ultimate sign of trust, for she ascribed her father's death to his decision to reveal his secret name to someone not worthy of trust. What Karana receives from her trust is a rewarding relationship that she will remember and think about for the rest of the novel.

Website Summary:
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dolphins/themes.html

Resilience- dasheni

One of karana's aspect is her resilience. Though the white men's ship dosen't return for her for eighteen years, and though her efforts to establish a comfortable life on the island are repeatedly thwarted, she never shows sign of despair. Karana is often sad, as when her brother was killed, or frightened, as when she was injured by the sea elephant and stalked by wild dogs, but she never gives up. She always looking ahead to her new task on the island.



taken from:http://sparknotes.com/dolphins/canalysis.html

Resilience ------------- zilu (new)

When Karana's father died she was not breaken down , her sister , brother and herself continued to follw the other's plan and prepared to go to another island. When she knew that her brother was not on the ship , and the asking was not useful , she did not continued staying on the ship , she dived into the sea and swam to Island of the blue dolphins. Karana is often sad, as when her brother was killed, or frightened, as when she was injured by the sea elephant and stalked by wild dogs, but she never gives up, she continued to kill the wild dogs.Karana shows she is a good person that can humor the changing environment . She build for herself a one-woman civilization, adapting her lost tribe's traditions to her unique circumstances, and taking creative new approaches to unexpected occurrences.Though her efforts to establish a comfortable life on the island are repeatedly thwarted, she never shows signs of despair. Karana is often sad, as when her brother was killed, or frightened, as when she was injured by the sea elephant and stalked by wild dogs, but she never gives up. She is always looking ahead to her next task on the island. We know that Karana cares deeply for others even at the very beginning of the novel, as is demonstrated when she plunges into the sea to go back to the island for her brother. Later, she is faced with different types of decisions. Faced with the necessity of hunting and defending herself from the wild dogs, Karana need to make weapons, something that the laws of her tribe forbid women to do. The stories say that weapons made by women will break just when one needs them most. After long deliberation, however, Karana decides to make a set of weapons for herself, and soon realizes that the old tales were false. This chapter also shows that tribal traditions strongly govern the lives of the characters. Kimki's decision to renounce the division of labor in the people of Ghalas-at was made out of necessity, and allowing women to do the work once given only to men prove quite useful and effective. However, this change makes the men of the village angry, and eventually Kimki restores the old order. The women are, in reality, as good as or better than the men at the men's jobs (as Karana explains in chapter five), and thus the division of labor is revealed as arbitrary. Even so, the men consider tasks such as hunting to be rightfully theirs, and the strength of such tradition is enough to bring things back to the way they were .This girl loses her entire family, including the little brother she stayed to save, and then spends most of the rest of her life alone on an island. The very matter-of-factness of the narrative bothered me. It was one thing to voluntarily spend a year away from your family, like Sam Gribley in My Side of the Mountain (a childhood favorite of mine which I did re-read several times), but to lose everyone? With no idea what happened to them, or if anyone would ever come back for you? I didn't like that at all.

References:
1. http://www.sanedraw.com/NOTEBOOK/ISLANDBD.HTM
2. http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dolphins/canalysis.html
3. http://newberryproject.blogspot.com/2007/05/island-of-blue-dolphins.html
4. http://www.buildingrainbows.com/review.php/reviewid/7523
5. http://www.millbury.k12.ma.us/shaw/karanaessay.html
6. http://www.lsu.edu/faculty/jpullia/3223historical2.htm
7. http://www.amazon.de/Island-Dolphins-Illustrated-American-Classics/dp/0395536804
8. http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/4076/booksnewkids.html 9.http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dolphins/section3.rhtml

Survival

1) Survive in an island is very diffcult,it needs determination.When she decide to go back to the mainland,the test of surviving on the island with her brother begins.Her brother die,and she know that she must take the avenge,so she starting to make men do,make arrow and bow,and spears.She wants to make a strong spear head,but she must kill sea elephant to obtain the tusk make the best spearheads on the island.But she determined get one.She also build a house for herself to live and store food.


Link:http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dolphins/section7.rhtm



2) Karana knows hiw to gather and prepare food for herself and Rontu.Karana's solution to the problem is to build for herself a one-woman civilization, adapting her lost tribe's traditions to her unique circumstances to survive, and taking creative new approaches to unexpected occurrences. She use all the things she learn.
Link:http://www.sanedraw.com/NOTEBOOK/ISLANDBD.HTM



3) Karana knows many skills because she involve in the task of daily living.After she is the only one left in the island she must do things that once adult do it before for her.She also must build a house to protect form animals and the weather.She also make friends in the island.I believe she will tresure her friends nicely.

Link:http://www.scholastic.com/kids/homework/pdfs/Island_of_pt3.pdf

Summary:She build a house,make a weapon,befriend with animals.Karana has many skills because in her culture children are very involved in the tasks of daily living. She knows how to gather and prepare food and how to make clothing, for instance. But after Karana is left alone on the island, she must do many more things that adults once did for her. She has to make a shelter to protect herself from animals and the weather. She has to improvise tools, repair the canoes, and make weapons.She also learns that survival means more than just keeping yourself alive,She also must take care of her needs for friendship,comfort, and pleasure, too.















Resilience

Another important aspect of Karana is her resilience. Though the white men's ship doesn't return for her for eighteen years, and though her efforts to establish a comfortable life on the island are repeatedly thwarted, she never shows signs of despair. Karana is often sad, as when her brother was killed, or frightened, as when she was injured by the sea elephant and stalked by wild dogs, but she never gives up. She is always looking ahead to her next task on the island.

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dolphins/terms/charanal_1.html

Forgiveness-HiDfReAk

After Karana's brother died and she was left alone,she was scared.At that time she has no friends nor family left.She wanted to take revenge on the dog but she think again and at last she do forgive them.She thinks that they are like humans and she even became close to the leader of the wild dogs.As the story progress, a new aluets girl came.At first she hated her and is suspisious of her.But then,she thinks that she need to learn how to forgive and forget.They became good friends and she learnt how to adapt to her new life with only she,the aluet girl and some animal.

www.bookloons.com/cgibin/Review.asp?bookid-=7494

Survival


Summary of the websites:

Karana is a smart and innovative girl who uses her knowledge of the world surrounding her to ensure her survival at the Island Of The Blue Dolphin. Stucked there,she has to remember what her tribe has tought her previously. Although there were many challenges, she remains intent* not only on survival but also making her life happy and a simple one.She also has to find her own strengths she never knew she had in order to survive.

In this chapter, Karana and Ramo enjoyed each other's company, and Ramo even said that he would rather be on the island of the blue dolphins with alone his sister other than having people around. She start to wonder whether the white men's ship will ever come and begins to experience fear for the first time since she was left on the island with Ramo. Her fear becomes panic when Ramo does not return, and to anger when she finds him dead. Karana's loneliness grows when she realizes just how alone she is without her brother.

Survival skills are skills that may help one to survive dangerous situations (such as storms or earthquakes), or in dangerous places (such as the desert, the mountains and the jungle). Useful skills include lighting a fire, making water safe to drink and so on.

One of the first rules of survival in general is there are no rules. The amount of variables is impossible to predict.First and foremost, the body requires one thing more than all others to survive…water. Without water we cannot make it more than a few days in most of any region. In some extreme cases without water, we will be lucky to make it a day. Fortunately in the tropics there is a fair amount of rain thus generating a good supply of fresh water.



* Intent means determined to do something or achieve something.

Links:

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dolphins/section5.rhtml http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survival_skills http://www.essortment.com/lifestyle/survivedeserted_tuak.htm
http://www.commonsensemedia.org/book-reviews/Island-Blue-Dolphins.html

COURAGE



Chief Matasaip explains to Karana that they cannot wait for Ramo, because if they do, the ship will be wrecked against the rocks. Then, though many people try to restrain her, Karana jumps off the boat into the water and swims back to shore.

Information from: http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dolphins/section4.rhtml

When the remaining islanders departed for a nearby haven, twelve-year-old Karana, realizing her younger brother Ramo has been left behind, jumps from the boat and swims back to the island to take care of him. She gathers food, builds shelter, and makes tools to survive. In order to take revenge against the wild dogs that killed her brother, Karana must make weapons, something that had been forbidden to the women of the tribe.

Information from: http://www.literatureplace.com/bookfolios/bookfolio.asp?BookfolioID=138

While rowing, Karana sees a hawk fly out of the cave and goes in to explore. Inside, she and Rontu find a row of figures made from reeds and clothed in gull feathers. Their eyes are made from abalone shells and glitter eerily. In the center of these figures sits a skeleton playing a pelican bone flute. Karana goes to leave the cave, but the tide has gone up and covered the entrance. She and Rontu thus have to spend the night in the cave with the strange figures and the skeleton. When Karana and Rontu leave the next morning, Karana names the cave "Black Cave" and vows never to return there again.

Information from: http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dolphins/section11.rhtml

SUMMARY:

From the first source, when Chief Matasaip told Karana that they can't wait for Ramo, Karana jumps into the sea and tries to swim back to the island while her elder sister, Ulape does not even care for Ramo. This shows that Karana has empathy for her brother and her courage to jump into the sea, giving up the good life she would have if she were to board the ship.

From the second source, after her brother, Ramo was killed by the wild dogs, she vowed to kill the pack of wild dogs but as she needed weapon to kill them but as it is against the Ghalas-at's rules for women to make weapons. In order to take revenge, she gathered up her courage and ignored the rule and went ahead with weapons-making .

And lastly from the third source, when Karana saw a hawk fly out of a cave, she went in. Inside the cave was filled with skeletons that makes her so petrified that she decided to leave immediately. But the tide was up and this prevented her from leaving. Thus, she summon all her courage and spent a night there together with Rontu.


Wednesday, July 4, 2007

Moral Development(Sharifah Radhiah)

When Karana is first left alone on the island her moral is more or less identical to that of her people. As the story goes on, Karana develops her own moral code. The laws of Karana's tribe forbid women from making thier own weapons.Facts that Karana struggles constantly as she pits superstition against necessity. The first time she made weapons, she is very fearful,but not the second time.She is less fearful but still nervous. The third time, when she made the spear to catch the devilfish, she does so without any misgivings.After the incident with Captain Orlov, the people of Ghalas-at become the sworn enemies of the Aleuts.

Karana, however, gives Tutok a chance, even though she is an Aleut and potentially very dangerous. Eventually, Karana even learns to trust someone she had formerly considered an enemy. A final way in which Karana divulges from the ideology of her people is her decision not to kill any more animals. Hunting and killing animals was a necessary part of her tribe's economy, but Karana no longer wishes to kill animals as she sees them as very much like people. Karana admits that her friends and family would likely find her decision that animals are like people amusing, but she has come to it through her own experience sticks by it.

Summary..

She knows that her tribesmen would consider her resolution ridiculous, but her animal friends are so important to her that she cannot bear to kill them. Karana also learns not to judge an individual by a tribe or a tribe by an individual. Her rejection of prejudice— based on her personal experiences, not on the lessons of her people—is the foundation for her developing love for all creatures, human and animal. Although her solitude ironically teaches her social sensitivity, it also emphasizes her need for human society.

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dolphins/terms/charanal_1.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_of_the_Blue_Dolphins
http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-island-of-the-blue-dolphins/socialsensitivity.html
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dolphins/canalysis.html

Mental Verbs

t is a verb that refers to mental states or activities, emotions, attitudes, desires, perceptions etc.

The following are some of the more commonly used mental verbs:

(1) know
(2) think
(3) suppose
(4) guess
(5) mean
(6) feel
(7) remember
(8) believe
(9) understand
(10) see
(11) find
(12) listen
(13) consider
(14) hear
(15) love
(16) expect
(17) want
(18) like
(19) need
(20) wonder

You are required to use the MENTAL verbs when doing task 2(resonding to group mates posts) today.

ROLE: CONNECTER[IsWaRyA]

- a man fights for his rights and when it is connected to the real world is like , when your friend tells everyone in your class that you have stole his handphone, thats when you fight for your rights as you did not stole it.

- a group of people where they carry weapons it means they are protecting themselves and when it is connected to the real world is like the protection for the president.

resilience(marliah)

When Karana awaked the next morning, Ramo is gone. She realized that he must have gotten up early to go for the canoe, and goes to the beach to wait for him. On her way there, she hears the barking of dogs off in the distance. When Karana reaches the spot the noise is coming from, she finds Ramo dead, surrounded by the pack of dogs. She carries Ramo back to the village, and the dogs follow her all the way. She chased them away with a club and then she followed the wild dogs back their lair. At first Karana decided to lit up a fire and push it inside the cave but she did not did it because it has not enough brush. she brought her brother back to the village.Many days pass after Ramo is killed, and on one foggy morning Karana decides to leave the village forever. She burns the houses down one by one, and sets out to the place where she has decided to wait for the white men's ship, west of Coral Cove. Here there is a rock upon which Karana can sleep and store food without fear of the wild dogs. Still, the dogs come every night and sit underneath the rock.She began to learnt to adapt to the fact that she was all alone by herself in the island.

During the long days of summer, Karana sits on the cliff, scanning the horizon for ships. When the first storm of winter comes, she knows that no ship will come until spring. The dogs come the first night she sleeps there. She makes a fire to keep them back and kills three of them with her bow.

The story progresses.Karana has became friends with the leader of the wild dogs and an aluets girl.She was not lonely anymore.She now think that all the animals are her friends although they cannot talk in human languages.She did not killed them anymore.
Taken From:
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dolphins/section5.rhtml
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dolphins/section6.rhtml
http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-island-of-the-blue-dolphins/chapanal010.html

Moral Development

When Karana is first left alone on the island, her moral ideology is more or less identical to that of her people. As the story progresses, however, Karana develops her own moral code.
The laws of Karana's tribe forbid women from making weapons, a fact that Karana struggles with constantly as she pits superstition against necessity.
The first time she makes weapons, she is very fearful; the second time she is less fearful but still nervous; the third time, when she makes the spear to catch the devilfish, she does so without any misgivings. Indeed, she makes that spear almost as a hobby, for catching devilfish is not a necessity.
Another way in which Karana departs from her tribe's rituals is through her friendship with Tutok. After the incident with Captain Orlov, the people of Ghalas-at become the sworn enemies of the Aleuts. Karana, however, gives Tutok a chance, even though she is an Aleut and potentially very dangerous.

A final way in which Karana divulges from the ideology of her people is her decision not to kill any more animals. Hunting and killing animals was a necessary part of her tribe's economy, but Karana no longer wishes to kill animals because she sees them as very much like people.

Karana forages on land and in the ocean, clothes herself (in a green-cormorant skirt and an otter cape on special occasions), and secures shelter. Perhaps even more startlingly, she finds strength and serenity living alone on the island.


Last time,She wanted to kill the dog because the dogs killed Ramo.But now,he does not kill the injured dog, who is the leader of the wild dogs as she felt pityful for Rontu,her new dog.Last time,she do not know how to do much work,but now Karana begins to take on the tasks originally .When she was first marooned, she used animals for food and tools and clothing. After many years alone on the island, Karana decides not to kill anymore. The animals have become her friends and her companions, and though she knows her people would think she is silly, she cannot bring herself to harm them for her benefit.

Summary

Not like lastime,she was hunting animals for foods,now she is not hunting animals for foods as animals were their friends.When Karana is first left alone on the island, her moral ideology is more or less identical to that of her people. As the story progresses, however, Karana develops her own moral code. As we all know if we are in a village and our friends or your loved onces live you and go to a another village,it will be very sad but most important,you must know how to do things like the simple things like protecting yourselves.It must be all in your fingertip.Like making a spear espacielly women cannot makes spear.She had to do this to protect herself..Actually this is a true story.If you are in a sitution like Karana,you even cannot imagine the life she have.She actually wanted to kill him espacially as he was the leader of the dogs that killed Karana's brother and for this reason,Karana is not a high tempered girl.From this story,We all can learn a lot of morals.She was brave,kind and some more and nowsdays,she is very independent. Anyway,I learnt a lot of moral from Island of the blue Dolphins.

References
1)http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dolphins/themes.html
2)http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/catalog/titledetail.cfm?textType=reviews&titleNumber=592356
3)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_of_the_Blue_Dolphins

Excitement - Hakim

Excitement

Survival ( Island Of The Blue Dolphin)

After Karana jumped the the ship, it was the start of testing her survial skills. During that period of time, Karana wasn't suppose to make weapons because of the tribe's law which says that women aren't allowed to make weapons. But because of her brother's death, she was fearful and was bent on getting revenge for Ramo. Leading to making her own weapons for protection and killing the wild dogs. She also hunt for her own food, and hides them in a safer place.

Sample - Theme (Moral Development)

In the early chapters of the book, Karana was deemed foolish by her father for her concern over the possibly extinction of the Otters if the hunting continues. Despite, her beliefs, she did not do anything to go against the ideology of her people.
Later in the story, she made a decision never to kill again - she chose not to harm another life as she now sees them as individuals, as her friends, whose lives are just as precious and important. She developed a fresh respect for life.

This is clearly not exhaustive, as it is only meant to be used as a guide. Those who are exploring this theme needs to find other development in the book that substantiate this theme.

Moral Development - NOEL

Moral Development

In the starting of the book, ( In chapter 2 )Karana's concern for the otters is the first (1)glimmer of her connection with the animals of Ghalas-at, which will eventually bring her to (2)renounce killing animals for any reason. Karana herself, also owns a cape of otter pelts , as her tribe also kills otter. Karana's sympathy for the animals is brought out by the (3)excessive hunting the Aleuts are doing. Karna fears the extinction of the otters in general, a fact that indicates that she considers otters as a kind of animal to be friends, but does not care specifically for any individual otter. Later, when she makes several animal friends, this view changes.

Later in chapter 24, Karana demonstrates how a (4)code of conduct is important. Karana also decides not to kill another animal or bird. Karana also note that her people would find such a decision ridiculous, but she will make it nonetheless. Animals and birds are like peoples. Karana will treat them like people. Her conception of animals as people-like has been growing throughout the novel, and now she has brought it to a conclusion: animals are like people.

In the very last chapter, Karana had (1)expounded her (2)revolutionary opinion (at least for her tribe) that animals were like people, and that because they were she would not kill them. However, in chapter twenty-six, although she does not kill any animals, she does kidnap Rontu-Aru, something that is unacceptable treatment for a human and thus should be, by Karana's code, unacceptable treatment for an animal. Though Karana does not specifically state that she believes animals should be treated in the same way as humans, her language (3)implies this position.

Meanings :
(1) glimmer : a faint or unsteady light; gleam
(2) renounce : to give up or put aside voluntarily
(3) excessive : going beyond the usual, necessary, or proper limit or degree
(4) code of conduct : a set of conventional principles and expectations that are considered binding on any person who is a member of a particular group
(5) expounded :To give a detailed statement of or to explain the details.
(6) revoltionary : involving or causing great changes in ideas, methods
(7) implies : To involve by logical necessity

Taken from :
1) http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dolphins/section13.rhtml
2) http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dolpins/section2.rhtml
3) http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dolphins/section14.rhtml

Survival

Karana make weapon e.g. arrows,sword,spear,bows and etc.Karana also make huts/house to protect herself from wild dogs/wild animals.She also gather food and keep in a safe place so that she will not be hungry.Food that she gather is e.g.fish and etc.

She also make canoes to help her moving around the island.She also make hideout to hide herself when the aleuts come.She also keep a dog to protect her house.

Survival-based on the book...

It all started when the ship did not wait for Ramo... The adventure to prove Karana's survival...
When Ramo died because of the wild dogs, she knew that life ahead was not going to be so easy... She had to live on her own with loneliness and with no adults on the island, she had to protect herself from the wild dogs. She had to survive to avenge her brother's death but eventually, she kept the leader of the wild dogs as her pet. She was not scared that the dog would kill her or something because she understand the meaning of survival. She hunt on her own survival and for her dog, Rontu's life. With Rontu around, survival becomes more meaningful for her. After Rontu's death, her emotions once again was deeply hurt. Instead of giving up, she lived her life as normal and that shows survival. She slept in fear of wild dogs but did not care much and she survived. That is why she could be able to survive till the day the ship came back for her... All thanks to the importance of survival!
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Courage-syakir

hhttp://www.curledupkids.com/isldolph.htm hhttp://dimdima.com/bookbuzz/show_books.asp?q_bid=80&q_title=Island%20of%20the%20Blue%20Dolphins
http://content.scholastic.com/browse/book.jsp?id=2353

forgivness-hidayah

http://www.scholastic.com/Kids/homework/pdfs/Island_of_the_Blue_Dolphins.pdf
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dolphins/themes.html
http://www.bookloons.com/cgi-bin/Review.asp?bookid=7494

courage-shumin

Describes the twelve year Karana’s courage and will to survive alone on her small island braving the fierce dogs and the wild weather. She lives out her solitary life on this island for many years hoping that a ship will eventually come and take her to where her family and village have moved.
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She gathers food, builds shelter, and makes tools to survive. In order to take revenge against the wild dogs that killed her brother, Karana must make weapons, something that had been forbidden to the women of the tribe. After many moons and suns, she realizes that her people won't be coming back for her. As the years go by, Karana learns to respect all of the animals of the island, and eventually tames Rontu, the dog who had killed her brother.

Taken from :http://www.literatureplace.com/bookfolios/bookfolio.asp?BookfolioID=138

Things would have gone differently if only Karana's young brother, Ramo, had not forgotten his fishing spear and gone back to fetch it. The rest of the tribe, including Karana, board the ship in bad weather and rising seas. In an astonishing act of bravery, when Karana looks back to the cliff to see Ramo left behind, she jumps overboard and swims back to him.She plucked up her courage to swim back to him by not knowing that it may be dangerous for her. Thus, there are two left behind when the ship sails.They carried on their life .
Taken from:http://www.readingmatters.co.uk/book.php?id=61

SUMMARY


Karana, an Indian girl, lives happily with her people on the Island of the Blue Dolphins. It is an island in the Pacific that gets its name from its beautiful shape — from above it looks like a dolphin lying on its side, "with its tail pointing toward sunrise," sunning itself in the sea. Around it blue dolphins swim, otters play, and sea elephants and sea birds thrive. Karana's people live in harmony among the other animals on and around the island as they have for generations. Her father is the chief of the village. And then one day a boat comes captained by a Russian man, who "looked at the little harbor as though it already belonged to him." The captain and his crew wish to hunt sea otter on their own terms. Their disregard for the ways of the Indians leads to bloody consequences, and Karana's family is destroyed, and eventually with the arrival of more white men, the entire community disappears from the island, save Karana.
For years she lives on the island alone, using the skills of her people to survive. For the first time, she modifies the skills only the men of her village had mastered. She makes a fence from the ribs of a whale. She builds a house. Eventually she becomes comfortable alone. She befriends one of the wild dogs, and the blue dolphins still give her strength. But she will not be alone for much longer.
Author O'Dell has based Karana's spare, poetic narrative on the events that took place on a real island off the coast of California first settled by Indians in about 2000 B.C. And there actually was a Karana, an Indian girl who lived Robinson Crusoe style on the island for 18 years. Winner of a Newbery Medal, O'Dell's novel can be used not only to augment a unit on Native American history, but to compel even the most reluctant reader.

Other website about Island of the blue dolphin : http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dolphins/themes.html
http://content.scholastic.com/browse/book.jsp?id=2353

Moral Developement-weishan

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links>>http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dolphins/themes.html

"the two fighters paused, getting ready for a new attack. it was a good chance to send an arrow into the young bull, who lay his back with his teeth still grasping the other's neck. But I hoped that he would win the battle, and i stood there did not move."shows that Karana hesitate to kill the bull but eventually, She chose not to kill it.

survival

When a tribe of islanders leaves their home in search of a safer place to live, they accidentally leave behind a twelve-year old girl and her young brother. The boy is soon killed by wild dogs, and Karana swears to devote the rest of her life to destroying the wild dogs who killed her little brother. After a failed attempt to leave the island in a leaky canoe, Karana decides to build a house and learn to hunt while waiting to be rescued. Her isolation from humans teaches her how to co-exist peacefully with the local wildlife, even the wild dog she considers her worst enemy. After many years, missionaries come to the island. She is not lonely; eventually she befriends and tames various wild animals, including the leader of the wild dogs. After years of hating the dogs, she slowly comes to realize that it is easier to live in peace than to be constantly at war.
She has to go through the stages of learning to do everything for herself with no one to protect her. In learning to provide herself with everything she needs, she not only overcomes her fears, she finds she is quite capable of performing every necessary task and more. She learns who her enemies are and when to trust them, how much food and water to store and how to protect it and numerous other tasks that in her past were always performed by the men. The environment surrounding her tests her courage and yet also allows her to find inspiration to keep going from one day to the next. She never loses hope, but she does eventually let go of the need for a provider. This gritty story was ahead of its time in its depiction of a strong, self-sufficient heroine.

taken from:
http://www.classzone.com/novelguides/litcons/dolphins/guide.cfm http://www.commonsensemedia.org/book-reviews/Island-Blue-Dolphins.html http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-island-of-the-blue-dolphins/themes.html

Forgiveness

In chapter seven, Karana demonstrates her empathy for others as she dives into the ocean to go after her brother. This is a pivotal moment in the text that reveals Karana as a uniquely caring and empathetic individual. She has been responsible for Ramo for most of the story thus far, and takes a motherly attitude toward him. Jumping into the sea, however, seems above and beyond the call of duty—Ulape, who is just as much a sister to Ramo as Karana, does nothing.She forgive her sister for not jumping down with her to save their brother's life. Karana also was raging with anger as she swam towards her brother. But as soon as she reaches the shore, she hug him instead of doing the things she planned while she was swimming.
Taken from: http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dolphins/section4.rhtml

When one day, she waited for the dogs to come out of their cave. She was a smart girl so, she gathered as many brush and lit them. Then, she threw them in the cave. Dogs began to come out. She shot two of them. Leaving with three arrows, she wanted to save it for the leader. The leader came out, but it did not run away as the others. Instead, it stand there starring at Karana. Karana did not waste time and shot an arrow. The arrow hit it's chest. It began to run. She shot another arrow but she misses. The remaining arrow she use it to kill another two dogs. She searched for the wounded dog. She found it. She wanted to kill it but on second thought, she cleaned its wound and keep it. She knows that it is still alive. She have the heart to keep it although it killed her brother. They became good friends. She decided to call it Rontu. Karana has many enemies and no friends. She lives with the vague fear in the back of her mind that one day the Aleuts that killed her people will return to the island. Eventually, Karana is forced into confrontation with the Aleuts. In each case she has the opportunity to take her revenge, but doesn't. The case of Tutok is the most important of these because it shows the development of Karana's trust in more detail and to a deeper extent (in the case of Rontu, the only thing Karana and Rontu to show trust was refrain from killing each other).
Taken from:http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dolphins/themes.html

In this section, Karana finds herself truly alone for the first time. Karana and Ramo enjoyed each other's company, and Ramo even said that he preferred to be on the island of the blue dolphins with his sister when there are no other people around. Karana starts to feel the pangs of loneliness when she is on the shore waiting for Ramo. She begins to wonder whether the white men's ship will ever come and begins to experience fear for the first time since she was left on the island with Ramo. Her fear becomes panic when Ramo does not return, and to anger when she finds him dead. She forgive her tribe for not trying to stop the ship and wait for Karana and Ramo. They just wanted to turn over a new leaf at the other island that they were going.
Taken from:http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dolphins/section5.rhtml

Tuesday, July 3, 2007

island of blue dophins(courage)mike

In this lesson, students connect with Island of the Blue Dolphins by looking at the text through three literary lenses: a mirror that allows them to find themselves in the text world, a microscope through which to understand the text’s literary elements, and a telescope that helps them see beyond the text. Students reflect on the meanings of courage and adversity, explore how setting and point of view aid character development, and look outwards to their community for people who have overcome adversity with courage.(http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=1068)


Karana, an Indian girl, lives happily with her people on the Island of the Blue Dolphins. It is an island in the Pacific that gets its name from its beautiful shape — from above it looks like a dolphin lying on its side, "with its tail pointing toward sunrise," sunning itself in the sea. Around it blue dolphins swim, otters play, and sea elephants and sea birds thrive. Karana's people live in harmony among the other animals on and around the island as they have for generations. Her father is the chief of the village. And then one day a boat comes captained by a Russian man, who "looked at the little harbor as though it already belonged to him." The captain and his crew wish to hunt sea otter on their own terms. Their disregard for the ways of the Indians leads to bloody consequences, and Karana's family is destroyed, and eventually with the arrival of more white men, the entire community disappears from the island, save Karana.For years she lives on the island alone, using the skills of her people to survive. For the first time, she modifies the skills only the men of her village had mastered. She makes a fence from the ribs of a whale. She builds a house. Eventually she becomes comfortable alone. She befriends one of the wild dogs, and the blue dolphins still give her strength. But she will not be alone for much longer.(http://content.scholastic.com/browse/book.jsp?id=2353)

What is a Theme?

It is
- a broad idea in a story
- a message
- a lesson conveyed by a work
- usually about life, society or human nature
- usually implied rather than explicitly stated (Shown through character's actions rather then told directly by the author.)

For further readings, refer to Wikipedia.

Forgiveness-JinYang

She gets stranded on her Indian tribe's island, after some greedy, and disrespectful, Aleuts came to hunt otters on their island. Karana learns how to find food, and make weapons to save herself from her enemies, the wild dogs. The wild dogs killed her brother Ramo. She went to the cave of the dogs and she made a fire and some dogs ran off. She also makes some friends along the way like Rontu that means fox eyes, who used to be the pack leader of the wild dogs. Later on Rontu realizes that Karana is kind and will take good care of him and not hurt him like he thinks she will. After Ramo dies, Karana learns how to forgive and trust her enemies. For example, Karana shoots the wild dog that had killed Ramo, but she doesn't kill him. Also when Karana meets Tutok, she is afraid of her and doesn't trust her. This was because the Aleuts were her enemies, since they killed her father. However, after a while she learns to trust her, and they soon become friends.
Taken from:
1) http://www.amazon.com/Island-Blue-Dolphins-Scott-ODell/dp/customer-reviews/0440439884
2) http://astore.amazon.com/science-books-20/detail/0440439884
3) http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?ean=9780440439882&crvAll=1&crvStart=1&displayonly=CRV&z=y

Courage-adelaiide

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dolphins/themes.html
http://www.literatureplace.com/bookfolios/bookfolio.asp?BookfolioID=138
http://content.scholastic.com/browse/book.jsp?id=2353

Resilience

http://teacherweb.com/NC/LJCDS/Amber/h0.stm
http://www.lsu.edu/faculty/jpullia/3223historical2.htm
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/anthro/outreach/Indbibl/bibcalif.html

Naimah - Survival

http://www.classzone.com/novelguides/litcons/dolphins/guide.cfm

http://astore.amazon.com/science-books-20/detail/0440439884

http://www.commonsensemedia.org/book-reviews/Island-Blue-Dolphins.html

FORGIVENESS

links:

1. http://kids.aol.com/homework-help/language-arts/book-notes/island-blue-dolphins
2. http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dolphins/canalysis.html
3. http://www.bookloons.com/cgi-bin/Review.asp?bookid=7494
4. http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dolphins/themes.html

FORGIVENESS

After Ramo is killed and Karana is left alone on Ghalas-at, she has many enemies and no friends. She is harassed constantly by the wild dogs of her island. Karana was than forced into confrontation with the wild dogs. the only thing Karana and Rontu to show trust was refrain from killing each other.
1. http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dolphins/themes.html

When the remaining islanders departed for a nearby haven, twelve-year-old Karana, realizing her younger brother Ramo has been left behind, jumps from the boat and swims back to the island to take care of him. She gathers food, builds shelter, and makes tools to survive. In order to take revenge against the wild dogs that killed her brother, Karana must make weapons, something that had been forbidden to the women of the tribe. After many moons and suns, she realizes that her people won't be coming back for her. As the years go by, Karana learns to respect all of the animals of the island, and eventually tames Rontu, the dog who had killed her brother.
2. http://www.literatureplace.com/bookfolios/bookfolio.asp?BookfolioID=138

Karana jumped overboard and swam to the island, determined not to leave her brother behind. Ramo and Karana watched for the return of the white-sailed ship. Within a short time, Ramo died. The day came when Karana knew she must kill the dogs, a few at a time. She wounded the leader, but hesitated to take his life. Karana carried the wounded dog to shelter, and nursed him back to health, coaxing him with food from her hand, a little at a time. From that day, he was constantly at her side. She named him Rontu. Karana faced many hard winters, battling the elements, and walking the island in search of food.
3. http://www.bookloons.com/cgi-bin/Review.asp?bookid=7494

SUMMARY
When the wild dogs killed Ramo, Karana vowed to kill all of them one day. She has no friends but many enemies. Karana was often harrassed by the while dogs. She was than forced into confrontation with the wild dogs. She gathers food, builds shelter, and makes tools to survive. In order to take revenge against the wild dogs that killed her brother, Karana must make weapons, something that had been forbidden to the women of the tribe. The day came when Karana knew she must kill the dogs, a few at a time. She wounded the leader, but hesitated to take his life. Karana carried the wounded dog to shelter, and nursed him back to health, coaxing him with food from her hand, a little at a time. The day came when Karana knew she must kill the dogs, a few at a time. She wounded the leader, but hesitated to take his life. Karana carried the wounded dog to shelter, and nursed him back to health, coaxing him with food from her hand, a little at a time. From that day, he was constantly at her side. After many moons and suns, she realizes that her people won't be coming back for her. As the years go by, Karana learns to respect all of the animals of the island, and eventually tames Rontu, the dog who had killed her brother.

Island of the blue dolphins (Survival)

Because Karana's story spans eighteen years, we are able to watch her personal and moral growth. As the only human on the island of he blue dolphins, Karana is left to develop her own moral code. We know that Karana cares deeply for others even at the very beginning of the novel, as is demonstrated when she plunges into the sea to go back to the island for her brother. Later, she is faced with different types of decisions. Faced with the necessity of hunting and defending herself from the wild dogs, Karana need to make weapons, something that the laws of her tribe forbid women to do. The stories say that weapons made by women will break just when one needs them most. After long deliberation, however, Karana decides to make a set of weapons for herself, and soon realizes that the old tales were false. Later in the novel, after Karana has befriended a number of the animals of the island, she decides for herself that she will never again kill any of these animals. This is a significant decision, because she is dependant on a number of these animals for material. However, she considers animals to be very much like people, even though they do not talk. She knows that her tribesmen would consider her resolution ridiculous, but her animal friends are so important to her that she cannot bear to kill them.It is the 1800s and Karana, an Indian girl, lives with her tribe on a warm island called the Island of the Blue Dolphins. The lives of the people in her tribe are mostly peaceful, but over the years they have had some problems. A group of Russians occasionally comes to their island to camp and hunt the otter that live right off the coast. The last time they came, they treated the people of the island badly. Now Karana is twelve and her father is the chief of their tribe and the Russians have come again to hunt. They promise things will be better this time and Karana's father reluctantly agrees to let them stay and hunt, for a price. At the end of their time hunting, though, the Russians try to get away without paying the fair price for the otter they have hunted. A battle ensues, and most of the men of the tribe, including Karana's father, are killed before the Russians get away. When the rest of Karana's tribe leaves to find help, Karana finds herself in a position where she has to fight to survive until someone returns for her. I liked Karana's determination to stay alive and the fact that she never gave up, even when she worried the ship would never come back for her. Some parts of this book got boring, though, especially when long stretches of time passed when nothing new was happening. Karana spent a lot of time gathering food, which wasn't very exciting.

links: http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dolphins/terms/charanal_1.html
links:http://astore.amazon.com/homeip-20/detail/6300184277

Courage - Syarifah Syafiqah

http://www.glencoe.com/sec/literature/litlibrary/islandbluedolph.html


http://home.earthlink.net/~eduscapes/units/island/



http://www.dimdima.com/bookbuzz/show_books.asp?q_bid=80&q_title=Island+of+the+Blue+Dolphins

island of blue dophins(courage)mike

“Island of the Blue Dolphins” is the gripping story about a girl called Karana, who survived alone on an island for eighteen years. A native American girl who lives on the San Nicolas Island off the west coast of California, Karana is left alone on her home island when the entire village of Ghalas-at moves out to seek better fortunes. Set in the 1800’s, the book describes the twelve year Karana’s courage and will to survive alone on her small island braving the fierce dogs and the wild weather. She lives out her solitary life on this island for many years hoping that a ship will eventually come and take her to where her family and village have moved. It is only after eighteen long years that she is rescued and taken to a mission. There she learns that her village people who deserted her all those years ago never did survive the sea voyage. The story reveals the grit and determination of Karana and her love for natu

(http://dimdima.com/bookbuzz/show_books.asp?q_bid=80&q_title=Island%20of%20the%20Blue%20Dolphinsre and the sea animals.)

Resilience ------------- zilu

This chapter also shows that tribal traditions strongly govern the lives of the characters. Kimki's decision to renounce the division of labor in the people of Ghalas-at was made out of necessity, and allowing women to do the work once given only to men prove quite useful and effective. However, this change makes the men of the village angry, and eventually Kimki restores the old order. The women are, in reality, as good as or better than the men at the men's jobs (as Karana explains in chapter five), and thus the division of labor is revealed as arbitrary. Even so, the men consider tasks such as hunting to be rightfully theirs, and the strength of such tradition is enough to bring things back to the way they were .

though her efforts to establish a comfortable life on the island are repeatedly thwarted, she never shows signs of despair. Karana is often sad, as when her brother was killed, or frightened, as when she was injured by the sea elephant and stalked by wild dogs, but she never gives up. She is always looking ahead to her next task on the island.

We know that Karana cares deeply for others even at the very beginning of the novel, as is demonstrated when she plunges into the sea to go back to the island for her brother. Later, she is faced with different types of decisions. Faced with the necessity of hunting and defending herself from the wild dogs, Karana need to make weapons, something that the laws of her tribe forbid women to do. The stories say that weapons made by women will break just when one needs them most. After long deliberation, however, Karana decides to make a set of weapons for herself, and soon realizes that the old tales were false.

This girl loses her entire family, including the little brother she stayed to save, and then spends most of the rest of her life alone on an island. The very matter-of-factness of the narrative bothered me. It was one thing to voluntarily spend a year away from your family, like Sam Gribley in My Side of the Mountain (a childhood favorite of mine which I did re-read several times), but to lose everyone? With no idea what happened to them, or if anyone would ever come back for you? I didn't like that at all.


References:
1. http://www.sanedraw.com/NOTEBOOK/ISLANDBD.HTM

2. http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dolphins/canalysis.html

3. http://newberryproject.blogspot.com/2007/05/island-of-blue-dolphins.html

4. http://www.buildingrainbows.com/review.php/reviewid/7523

5. http://www.millbury.k12.ma.us/shaw/karanaessay.html

6. http://www.lsu.edu/faculty/jpullia/3223historical2.htm

7. http://www.amazon.de/Island-Dolphins-Illustrated-American-Classics/dp/0395536804

8. http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/4076/booksnewkids.html

9.http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dolphins/section3.rhtml

Moral Development - NOEL

Moral Development

When Karana is first left alone on the island, her moral ideology is more or less identical to that of her people. As the story progresses, however, Karana develops her own moral code. The laws of Karana's tribe forbid women from making weapons, a fact that Karana struggles with constantly as she pits superstition against necessity. The first time she makes weapons, she is very fearful; the second time she is less fearful but still nervous; the third time, when she makes the spear to catch the devilfish, she does so without any misgivings. Indeed, she makes that spear almost as a hobby, for catching devilfish is not a necessity. Another way in which Karana departs from her tribe's rituals is through her friendship with Tutok. After the incident with Captain Orlov, the people of Ghalas-at become the sworn enemies of the Aleuts. Karana, however, gives Tutok a chance, even though she is an Aleut and potentially very dangerous. Eventually, Karana eve learns to trust someone she had formerly considered an enemy. A final way in which Karana divulges from the ideology of her people is her decision not to kill any more animals. Hunting and killing animals was a necessary part of her tribe's economy, but Karana no longer wishes to kill animals because she sees them as very much like people. Karana admits that her friends and family would likely find her decision that animals are like people amusing, but she has come to it through her own experience sticks by it.

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dolphins/themes.html

another one :

As her people continue to suffer and then to flee, she never loses that strength. Nor does she lose the belief in the courage of her people - even when she is left behind alone to live on the island shaped like a fish. Karana learns to defend herself from the wild dogs, to make weapons like the men of her people, and to stock food and water for the rainy time. Always she waits for the return of her tribe, looking out over the water each morning, never giving up hope of their return for her.

from : http://www.curledupkids.com/isldolph.htm

another one :

The narrative focuses on Karana's mental and emotional reactions to her predicament. Initially, she experiences a sense of loss—the loss of loved ones, of the security of a social structure, of reliable sources of sustenance. Through her ordeal, Karana gradually achieves a sense of self-reliance and acquires a degree of order. The need for some kind of community leads the girl to form a "family," by rescuing and taming wild creatures: an orphaned otter, two birds, and, most significantly, the wild dog that she initially sought to destroy in revenge for its pack having killed her brother. She names the dog Rontu, and he becomes her friend and protector.

from :
http://kids.aol.com/homework-help/language-arts/book-notes/island-blue-dolphins