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

moral devplopment

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.
Karana has two sworn enemies: the Aleutsand 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.From this part we can see that karana respects life and care for the murderer of her brother.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.from this whole page we can see that karana's moral for life change when her tribe was gone.she started to Charis life unlike when her tribe was around.

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


More about scott o'dell:
http://ww.glencoe.com/sec/literature/litlibrary/pdf/island_blue_dolphins.pdf

Resilience( Marliah )

1.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_resilience

2.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resilience

3.http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/resilience/MH00078

Survival

1.www.sparknotes.com/lit/dolphins/section5.rhtml

2.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survival_skills

3.www.essortment.com/lifestyle/survivedeserted_tuak.htm

Resilience

Though white men's ship doesn't return for her for eighteen years and the hope for living a good life seem to be impossible but she never shows signs of despair. This girl loses her entire family including the little brother killed by the wild dogs. Karana was sad but she never gives up. She is always looking ahead to the next task in the island. The problem faced by Karana is how to stay alive, alone on a small island, among human and natural threats--while nurturing the hope of being reunited with her loved ones. 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, and taking creative new approaches to unexpected occurrences.

http://www.sanedraw.com/NOTEBOOK/ISLANDBD.HTM
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dolphins/canalysis.html
http://newberryproject.blogspot.com/2007/05/island-of-blue-dolphins.html

Survival

http://astore.amazon.com/historyforkids/detail/0440439884
http://books.google.com.sg/books?id=4ioEAAAACAAJ&dq=Island+of+the+Blue+Dolphins
http://content.scholastic.com/browse/book.jsp?id=2353

Sharifah( Moral Developement)

1.http://www.iep.utm.edu/m/moraldev.htm

2.http://social.jrank.org/pages/427/Moral-Development.html

3.http://www.drpaul.com/factsheets/learnlive.html

Forgivness - NuRuL- aka -IfAH-

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

Moral developement-weishan

weishan
Links>>
1.http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dolphins/canalysis.html

2.http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/27112/guide_to_using_odells_island_of_the.html? page=2

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.

“Ulape would have laughed at me, and others would have laughed, too - my father most of all. Yes this is the way I felt about the animals who had become my friends and those who were not, but in time could be. If Ulape and my father had come back and laughed, and all the others had come back and laughed, still I would have felt the same way, for animals and birds are like people, too, though they do not talk the same or do the same things. Without them the earth would be an unhappy place.” This passage best exemplifies the main character’s growth and development of her own moral code. It shows how Karana has adjusted to her surroundings in order to survive while maintaining what is right to her. It can prompt a good discussion of other ways in which Karana has matured and changed.

COURAGE

When Karana reaches the beach, all of the men except Nanko and Matasaip have already boarded the ship. Karana has lost track of Ramo, but Nanko tells her the he was on the first canoe to the ship. Upon reaching the ship, Karana looks around for Ramo, but he is nowhere to be found. Nanko offers her his assurance that he is on the ship, but then Karana notices him back on the island, running along the cliff with his spear in his hand.
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.

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

Based on real events, this is the story of Karana, a young Indian girl who lives on the Island of the Blue Dolphins, which is actually San Nicolas. She and her brother are left marooned on this island when all the villagers leave to live on another island. Time passes as Karana struggles to survive on her own. When her brother dies, she realizes she must build a home and find food and store it for each winter. She makes weapons and clothing. The years pass in isolation. Although faced with loneliness and physical danger every day, Karana finds courage and serenity.

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

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.

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

SUMMARY

The villagers scramble to pack for their journey. They had brought only the bare necessities when they thought they were fleeing the Aleuts, and so choose a few possessions to bring with them.As they head toward the beach, Ramo realizes he has left his fishing spear at the village, but Karana knows there is not enough time to go back tells him he must leave it behind.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 to find Ramo. Time passes as Karana struggles to survive on her own. 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. Karana makes weapons and clothing for herself. The years pass in isolation. Although faced with loneliness and physical danger every day, Karana finds courage and serenity.

Taken from:
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dolphins/section4.rhtml
http://home.earthlink.net/~eduscapes/units/island/
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, 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. One day, Karana hurt the leader but she carried the wounded dog to shelter, and nursed him back to health, coaxing him with food from her hand, a little at a time. Every time she has the opportunity to take revenge of her brother, but doesn't. This shows that Karana had forgive the leader and accepted the leader. From that day onwards, she names the dog Rontu, and he becomes her friend and protector.

Taken from:
http://kids.aol.com/homework-help/language-arts/book-notes/island-blue-dolphins#Themes_and_Characters
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dolphins/themes.html
http://www.bookloons.com/cgi-bin/Review.asp?bookid=7494

Survival

The thought of being alone on the island while so many suns rose from the sea and went slowly back into the sea filled my heart with loneliness. I had not felt so lonely before because I was sure that the ship would return as Matasaip had said it would. Now my hopes were dead. Now I was really alone. I could not eat much, nor could I sleep without dreaming terrible dreams. The storm blew out of the north, sending big waves against the island and winds so strong that I was unable to stay on the rock. I moved my bed to the foot of the rock and for protection against the wild dogs.

To construct her fence, Karana uses the ribs of two whales that washed ashore years before. She plants them in the ground and ties them together with kelp. The house takes longer to build, partially because there are so few trees on the island that grow straight or tall enough to make poles. A legend among the people of Ghalas-at says that the island was covered with tall trees at the beginning of the world, when the gods Tumaiyowt and Mukat ruled. "Tumaiyowit wished people to die. Mukat did not. Tumaiyowit angrily went down, down to anther world, taking his belongings with him, so people die because he did." After searching for a long time, Karana finds enough poles to build her house. Her house has four poles one each side, one wall of rock, and a roof of eight poles bound together with sinew and covered with female kelp. Karana feels secure in her new house. Although animals come at night, they cannot get through the fence. Once her house is finished, Karana fashions some utensils from rocks. She makes a basket from reeds and seals it with pitch so that it can hold water. She also widens some cracks in her rock wall to make shelves that will keep her food safe from gray mice.
I got this information from:
http://www.rossglen.schools.sd76.ab.ca/RGSWebpage/Student/Neilson/documents/island_of_the_blue_dolphins.htm


http://dimdima.com/bookbuzz/show_books.asp?q_bid=80&q_title=Island%20of%20the%20Blue%20Dolphins


http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dolphins/section7.rhtml


Survival

http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:VH8SmlpEDGAJ:www.penguinreaders.com/downloads/9780582416383.pdf+island+of+the+blue+dolphin+chapter+8+karana+survival&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=sg

http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:GWTySyXpAlcJ:ww.glencoe.com/sec/literature/litlibrary/pdf/island_blue_dolphins.pdf+island+of+the+blue+dolphin+chapter+8+karana+survival&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=13&gl=sg

http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:Xvks0Uks9v4J:www.uh.edu/hti/cu/2003/7/03.pdf+island+of+the+blue+dolphin+chapter+8+karana+survival&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=32&gl=sg

Resilience

Links:

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dolphins/section14.rhtml

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

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

My Role-Survival

In the Pacific there is an island that looks like a big fish sunning itself in the sea. Around it, blue dolphins swim, otters play, and sea elephants and sea birds abound. Once, Indians also lived on the island. And when they left and sailed to the east, one young girl was left behind.This is the story of Karana, the Indian girl who lived alone for years on the Island of the Blue Dolphins. Year after year, she watched one season pass into another and waited for a ship to take her away. But while she waited, she kept herself alive by building a shelter, making weapons, finding food, and fighting her enemies, the wild dogs. It is not only an unusual adventure of survival, but also a tale of natural beauty and personal discovery.http://www.blogger.com/www.shelfari.com

island of the blue dolphin

courage

Based on real events, this is the story of Karana, a young Indian girl who lives on the Island of the Blue Dolphins, which is actually San Nicolas. She and her brother are left marooned on this island when all the villagers leave to live on another island. Time passes as Karana struggles to survive on her own. When her brother dies, she realizes she must build a home and find food and store it for each winter. She makes weapons and clothing. The years pass in isolation. Although faced with loneliness and physical danger every day, Karana finds courage and serenity.
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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.
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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.
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Karana and villages live harmony in a small island called island of the blue dolphin. One day Aleut came and destroy her happiness. Karana's father died in the war. Family members left was her sister and brother. A chance of living better life was bring to the villages. Aboarding the ship, karana find that her brother was left behind. Giving out the hope for her brother, she jump off the ship without caring how strong the waves is and whether she can make it back to the island. Ramo was killed by the leader of the wild dog. She vow to take revenge. Karana make weapon that are forbidden from women. Karana had a chance to kill the leader but forgive him and befriend the wild dog. Karana knew that the ship will not come back but she willing to live on and using determination and courage. She master the different types of skill and hunt large animals that needed many man to do. She slowly learn to reaspect all animals and friend with them.

Resilience-Si Yi

http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521807018
http://www.enfants-des-rues.com/pages/uk/thematiques_resilience.asp
http://www.enfants-des-rues.com/pages/uk/etudes_resilience.asp
http://greenermagazine.blogspot.com/2007/05/wwii-survivors-lessons-in-resilience.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. 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. But she still made weapons for her survival need despite the facts. 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. 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.

ideology-
1)The body of ideas reflecting the social needs and aspirations of an individual, group, class, or culture.
2)A set of doctrines or beliefs that form the basis of a political, economic, or other system.
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dolphins/themes.html

All created things have their degree or stage of maturity. The period of maturity in the life of a tree is the time of its fruit-bearing... The animal attains a state of full growth and completeness, and in the human kingdom man reaches his maturity when the light of his intelligence attains its greatest power and development... Similarly there are periods and stages in the collective life of humanity. At one time it was passing through its stage of childhood, at another its period of youth, but now it has entered its long-predicted phase of maturity, the evidences of which are everywhere apparent... That which was applicable to human needs during the early history of the race can neither meet nor satisfy the demands of this day, this period of newness and consummation. Humanity has emerged from its former state of limitation and preliminary training. Man must now become imbued with new virtues and powers, new moral standards, new capacities. New bounties, perfect bestowals, are awaiting and already descending upon him. The gifts and blessings of the period of youth, although timely and sufficient during the adolescence of mankind, are now incapable of meeting the requirements of its maturity.
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Traditionally, psychology has avoided studying anything that is loaded with value judgements. There is a degree of difficulty involved in trying to be unbiased about things that involve terms like "good" and "bad!" So, one of the most significant aspects of human life -- morality -- has had to wait quite a while before anyone in psychology dared to touch it! But Lawrence Kohlberg wanted to study morality, and did so using some of the most interesting (if controversial) techniques. Basically, he would ask children and adults to try to solve moral dilemmas contained in little stories, and to do so outloud so he could follow their reasoning. It wasn't the specific answers to the dilemmas that interested him, but rather how the person got to his or her answer.
One of the most famous of these stories concerned a man named Heinz. His wife was dying of a disease that could be cured if he could get a certain medicine. When he asked the pharmacist, he was told that he could get the medicine, but only at a very high price -- one that Heinz could not possibly afford. So the next evening, Heinz broke into the pharmacy and stole the drug to save his wife's life. Was Heinz right or wrong to steal the drug?
http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/genpsymoraldev.html

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Even though Karana is left in the island alone, not knowing if she has to make weapons for her protection needs and survival, it's the superstition against necessity. But she till made it. Hunting and killing animals was a necessary part of her tribe's economy but she did not kill them anymore though she need them for food. That which was applicable to human needs during the early history of the race can neither meet nor satisfy the demands of this day, this period of newness and consummation. Karana even gave the Aluet her real name even though the Ghalas has become the sworn enemies of the Aleuts. This shows that she has shown trust in the Aluet even though they were sworn enemies. The gifts and blessings of the period of youth, although timely and sufficient during the adolescence of mankind, are now incapable of meeting the requirements of its maturity.
a man named Heinz whose wife was dying of a disease that could be cured if he could get a certain medicine. When he asked the pharmacist, he was told that he could get the medicine, but only at a very high price -- one that Heinz could not possibly afford. So the next evening, Heinz broke into the pharmacy and stole the drug to save his wife's life. Was Heinz right or wrong to steal the drug?
This shows how much love he has for his wife.
Karana too has much love for the animals, her brother and has also decieded to give the Aluet another chance.