Joe

Bone From a Dry Sea By Joe

 11/24/10- Pages 126-133
 * The pattern of the tribe's existence changed
 * The hunting was getting easier for the tribe because they had the help of the dolphins
 * A big storm came and the tribe was in a little danger
 * At the end of the chapter they were going to head south but they notices that there were strangers swimming towards them so they decided to go north

11/24/10- Pages 133-143
 * Vinny’s making Sam look back at when her mom and Sam were married
 * Sam and Joe got into a little fight
 * Vinny found a fossil
 * She put together fragments and came up with something (good enough to show Joe)

11/25/10-pages 143-151
 * The strangers were Greb’s tribe
 * Presh and Greb had another fight and Greb killed Presh
 * Greb was taking over the beach so Li and Presh’s tribe were trying to escape
 * Presh’s tribe had to climb up these vines to escape

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">11/25/10-pages 151-158
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Vinny’s shell that she found was excellent so they’re going to show it too John Wishart ( Paleontologist) tomorrow that's coming to visit
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Vinny and her dad got into a fight at lunch with Dr. Hamiska and Dr. Watson and Vinny and Same both said some things they shouldn't have said
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Vinny’s getting annoyed because of the fighting and she wishes she had never come
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Vinny doesn’t want to get her picture taken because she doesn’t want it to be in the newspaper and for other reasons

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">11/26/10- pages 158-166
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Li and “her” (Presh’s) tribe stayed in a pool of water and on the cliffs, safe and away from Greb and his tribe
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">They weren’t able to get down to the beach because of Greb and the tribe so they didn’t eat for that day as they were very hungry
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Li and the tribe got to eat by climbing down the vines with nobody noticing the next day and then they came back up
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All of the Human/Apes noticed a big wave coming and then it came and destroyed everything and some Human/Apes were hurt

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">11/26/10-pages 166-176
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Vinny went to tell Joe that she didn’t want her picture taken for the newspaper and it didn’t go so well
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Joe got into a fight with Vinny and then her dad came and Sam got into a fight with Joe
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sam was so angry and couldn't stand Joe so he resigned and Joe sent Vinny with him
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He and Vinny spent there last day packing and hanging out with May Anna

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">11/27/10-pages 176-183
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now land was destroyed with bolders and rocks and sand dents everywhere
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Li and the tribe were okay and ate for the day and took care of each other
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kadif was named leader of the tribe and Li told them to travel south so they did
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Everything was destroyed from one beach to the next but luckily they were able to eat because of the stranded fish and now they are moving on

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">11/27/10-pages 183-191
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Vinny woke up and Joe was in a great mood and today Vinny and her dad were leaving as her dad was finishing up paperwork
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Early that day a army helicopter came and inside of it was a man named Mr.Multon with big newz
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He told Joe and all of the other people that they were digging out of their license agreement and they were past the boundery so everybody would have to leave in the next 48 hours
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The minister (Mr. Multon) said that Mr.watson would be taking over of the site so then Mr. Watson wants to hire Sam because he needs the help! He also sends Vinny, Sam and May Anna on a safari for a couple of days and when they get back maybe Sam will start working again

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">11/28/10-pages 191-195
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Li was happy that the Tribe and her made a double journey and now have returned to the stream and she’s happy that Rawi had a baby
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Although the wave destroyed many surroundings Li saw that new bugs and green and marshes were appearing
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Li ate for the day and in the evening she sat on a boulder feeling like she was being watched
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At the end of the chapter she wanted to put a dolphin shoulder blade she found in her hair but it was too thick so she started to carve it like a fossil hunter

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">11/28/10-pages 195-199
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The gang was starting to drive toward thier safari and they were all having a good time
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Then Sam brought up that the inspectors that check your bags took all their notes and anything that belonged to the site
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Vinny brought up that they didn’t take away her fossil and May Anna wanted to look at it
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> May Anna said that it was a dolphin scapula and that there was a hole and scratch marks on it and that a hominid probably did this so they didn’t want anybody to find the fossil so they buried it by a tree and that was it

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> I think Vinny wound up having Li’s dolphin bone that she found! It was good story!

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 * 1) Choose a very descriptive paragraph from the last two chapters we just read and that paints a vivid picture for you. Retype the paragraph into your Docs and give reasons for choosing this paragraph.
 * 2) Choose your favorite sentence, also from these two chapters and give reasons why you chose it. Retype your sentence.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-From Bone from a Dry Sea <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">//“Nobody liked Greb. He was big,surly young male who didn’t keep to the rules. A while ago he’d broken Nuhu’s arm. She and some other children had been playing a splashing game around a rock pool when Greb had settled near them with a clam he’d found and a rock to hammer it open. Nuhu had wheedled for a bit of clam. A normal male would have barked go away, but Greb had shoved her hard enough to knock her flat, so that she’d banged her head on a rock and started to howl. Greb in sheer bad temper had brought his hammerstone down on her outstretched arm, snapping the bone above the wrist.”//

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> I picked this paragraph from the story because it really gave me a picture in my head! Peter Dickinson was really descriptive in this paragraph and wrote it very well. I like how he started the paragraph off with giving a little information about Greb and throwout the chapter you will learn more about Greb. At least for this paragraph he gave me an idea of what he looks like. Then the author gave me an example and that example gave me a big picture of these these little kids playing in a pool of water surrounded by rocks. Then this big guy comes along and sits down and starts eating this clam. Then the next thing you know one of the human/apes are getting beat up. Then I could actually picture the bone cracking and her howling. It was a very good paragraph.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> -From Bone from a Dry Sea <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">//“Making her bed that morning she’d found an old tube of eyeshadow, May Anna’s color, wedged between the leg of the bed and the hut wall.”//

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Even though this sentence was short it told a lot. Vinny was making her bed that morning and then she found May Anna’s eyeshadow in her and her dad’s room. That could mean that maybe Sam and May Anna like each other or there in some sort of a relationship. There are many things that I could think of that could of happened, maybe Vinny's room was once May Anna’s room. This was a great sentence and it said a lot. It gave me a very good picture.

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= = ===<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Question 5 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Why do you think Li is trying out new ideas while the rest of her tribe uses the same techniques? === <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Li is different from her kind because she wants to explore and learn new things about what’s around her. She doesn’t want to play with her tribe! Li has more knowledge then most of her kind and she shows it in some of the examples given! Examples: Li and her tribe would catch shrimp with their hands but after seeing how a spider caught its prey she learned a different way of catching shrimp. She didn't use her hands, she used spider webs! That shows that her knowledge comes in handy. When she was exploring one day she saw a dolphin and started to ride it but the shark watcher called her in because he thought it was a shark. Her curiosity and knowledge and exploring makes her very different from the tribe and this could be where the human knowledge started within apes. I think something bad is going to happen later in the book for Li because of her curiosity! But I think its a great book and I cant wait to read more!!!!! <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Joe P. :) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________

<span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The book we are reading as a group is called Bone from a dry sea. The book is split into two parts named <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">//then// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">//now// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. The then part was about an ape /human who lived about four million years ago with her tribe. She is a very talented and curious as she took on a full grown shark but her “Uncle” took all the credit for killing the shark. She is also not like her tribe because she likes to go away and learn new things because shes curious and she enjoys it. <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The second part of the book is the <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">//now// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">part. Its about this girl named Vinny who lives in modern times with her mom and her stepfather and rarely sees her dad because her parents are divorced. She just started to see her dad and his going to spend a little while with him. Hes a paleontologist and Vinny is going to spend her days looking for bones in Africa with him. Vinny is not so happy about that. I think it is a very good so far and i cant wait to see what happens later on in the book!

Joe