Stella

  __A Bone From A Dry Sea__  notes         **Then**
 * ****Presh could not swim great but he could still swim** **
 * **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**strangers coming** **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**a huge storm** **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Li is now very important to Presh and goes and sees the families with him** **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Now**
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Vinny doesn’t want to choose between her mother and father** **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Vinny noticed that there was a pattern across a broken clam** **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**There were no hammer marks though** **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Vinny’s dad had found a toe bone with webbing** **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Then**
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**the males confronted the strangers** **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**the leader of the strangers was Greb** **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Presh died from being hit hard by Greb** **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Li found a place in a gully on the side of a cliff that was safe for everyone to go to be away from Greb** **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Now**
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Vinny had dreams about having to lead people across a marsh** **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**a deer femur was found that could have butchery marks on it** **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Nikki drew a portrait of Vinny** **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Vinny doesn’t like fighting with her mom every time she gets a chance to see her dad** **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Then**
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> **Li made a mat out of gourd vine** **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**there is a tsunami that is coming** **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**the tsunami buried Greb and his followers** **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**the water had turned the cliffs into a bunch of boulders** **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Now**
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Vinny tried to use the excuse “I have a headache” on Dr. Hamiska but it didn’t work** **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Vinny didn’t want her pictures in the newspaper because of something between her and her mother** **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Dr. Hamiska told Vinny and her dad that they were suspended from the camp** **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Sam resigned from his job** **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Then**
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**after a couple of days the tribe explored the sea, and it was weirdly cold** **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Li thinks that the dolphins sent the wave to save her from Greb** **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**the bone Li was carrying seemed to be saying to her to move on they cannot survive on this shore** **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**after the tsunami islands formed** **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Now**
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Mrs. Hamiska apologized to Vinny about what happened** **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Soldiers came and asked t speak to Dr. Hamiska** **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Every one's Visas got taken away and were told to pack up and leave within 48 hours** **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Vinny asked if May Anna could come on the trip with her and her dad** **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Then**
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Rawi gave birth to Presh’s baby** **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**since Presh died so no one brought gifts of food or the birth ornament** **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Li made a birth ornament for Rawi** **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Li began turning the bone** **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Now**
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**May Anna is going back to work for Watson** **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Sam isn’t going back to the camp to work** **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Vinny showed May Anna a fossil that had a hole bored into it** **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Vinny told her dad and May Anna that we really did come from the sea and they are finally starting to believe her** **

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My Favorite Paragraph and Sentence

__<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">﻿ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Paragraph ( from the //then// chapter): __ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">"//Last night, waking on a roosting ledge and seeing the moonlit sky, she’d found herself wondering why the sun was hot and the moon cold, why the moon changed its shape and the sun didn’t, and then she’d slept and dreamed of dolphins playing with the moon and sun. Now, remembering that dream, she told herself that they all came out of the sea, the dolphins as well as the sun and the moon and the stars. Perhaps they all come from the same place. Perhaps one day a dolphin would take her there. It couldn’t be far, at the speed the dolphin swam.//" <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Why I like it: This paragraph painted a picture in my head because I can imagine the dolphins and Li playing with the moon, stars and sun. I like how the author talked about Li’s dream. I also like the idea of the dolphins taking Li to this place that they all come from. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sentence: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">"//Dr. Hamiska laughed and jumped to his feet and clapped Dad on the shoulder in a no-hard-feelings way, then started striding around the hillside, giving the rest if the team their orders."//  <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Why I like it: I like this sentence because I can so easily picture Dr. Hamiska slapping Vinny’s dad on the back and then going over and getting himself in every one elses business by giving them orders... even if they were doing perfectly fine without his say in things. I can also picture Vinny’s dad sort of scowling as Dr. Hamiska walks away. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Question #6, Why do you think Li is trying out new ideas and the rest of her tribe uses the same techniques? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> My answer: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> I think that Li is trying out new ideas while the rest of her tribe isn’t because she is always thinking. She is always trying to find new and better ways of doing things. Also Li is really good at observing the world around her. In one of the chapters she sat and watched a spider spin a web for a really long time, she wanted to learn everything that she could about the shape of the web and why it worked so well to catch food. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Li is also very good at not giving up. She worked on trying to imitate the spider’s web so that she could catch shrimp easily. It took a lot of trial and error before she was able to get it right. I think that Li is really fascinating and I am looking forward to seeing what she comes up with next. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">So far I have liked A Bone From A Dry Sea. I really enjoyed the //Then// chapter. I like trying to picture the girl Li and the rest of her tribe. I think that it is really interesting that Li and her tribe have webbed fingers and live in the water and on land. The //Now// chapter is also really good. Although some of the language in it is confusing to me, I am excited to see what happens next. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">