For homework, please read pages 112-140 (Chapters 19-22) of Island of the Blue Dolphins.
Please answer the following on the forum (your responses should total at least 250 words). Read your classmates’ responses before class.
1. How is the passage of time described in this book?
2. How does Karana’s environment affect her actions and feelings? Has Karana’s environment changed? If so, how? Has Karana changed? If so, how?
Translate the last paragraph on p.139 in Ch. 22 beginning “At first, knowing that I could now leave the cave and move back into my house…”
Have fun!
Below are the vocabulary words we worked on this past week, including the words we didn't have time to define. Next week, if you have words that can easily be looked up on your own, do that right after you read! Then we can spend time talking about the more difficult vocab.
brackish = salty or bad tasting
lumps of pitch = black material used for petroleum
gruel = oatmeal or porridge
ember = the glowing rocks at the end of a fire, which can be used to start another fire.
prowling = The way animals stalk their next meal
flank = flesh of an animal, especially between the ribs and hips
slain = killed
quivering = when a body part makes a small shaking motion
crouching = squatting
speckled = small dots
perching = when a bird is sitting on something.
stunned = the sea elephant was still after being hit (either was unconscious or still from the pain)
venture = go somewhere; adventure
mound p105 = small hill
shaft p102 = the long part of something, like the handle of a shovel or the body of an arrow
slant p93 = crooked (not straight)
yawning p94 = how you get more air when you’re tired
plank p96 = a board of wood
roost p96 = the nest of a bird
numerous p96 = many
cormorant p99 = a large bird
tender p100 = the opposite of “rough"