Your job is to write down questions your group can discuss.

• 1 Fact/Opinion
• 1 MCEOG
• 1 Cause/Effect

MCEOG  (p. 34 par. 6)
2.    Billie Wind packed the bowl she found carefully and said she was going
       to show it to Charlie Wind and he would bring back historical detectives
       to the island.  The reader can infer that historical detectives are
        A.  the FBI
        B.  policemen
        C.  biologists
        D.  archaeologists

Cause/Effect  (p. 41 l. 1-8)
3.    Cause:  Billie Wind devised a way to catch fish in the cave and cook them.
       Effect:  Billie Wind and Petang will have food enough to help them
       survive.

    Your job is to choose passages from this chapter that you and your group can discuss.
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1.    -
2.    p. 49 par. 4
3.    A plant...of death.
4.    I chose this passage because it contains personification.
5.    Q:  What takes on human characteristics?
       A:  The sun
6.    Author's Purpose:  To emphasize the power of the sun's energy.
 

1.    -
2.    p. 37 par. 7
3.    "Who's there?"...underground men."
4.    This passage foreshadows what is about to appear.
5.    Q:  What animal appears to Billie
       A:  An otter
6.    Author's Purpose:  To foreshadow and make it more suspenseful to the
       reader as he/she tries to figure out what other creature is in the cave.
 
 

Choose 2 words from the following:

• entombed p. 32 par. 1
• conquistadores p. 33 par. 1
• festooned p. 33 par. 1
• shards p. 34 l. 7
• pondered p. 34 par. 5
• smouldering p. 37 par. 1
• clambering p. 47 par. 5
• machete p. 35 par. 6
• conch p. 36 l. 1
• porous p. 36 par. 4
• eons p. 42 par. 2
• loom p. 49 l. 4

1.    entombed  (p. 32 par. 1)
2.    She was emtombed by the fire serpent.
3.    Look the word up in a dictionary.
4.    entombed - placed in a tomb; buried.
5.    verb
6.    The ball players were entombed by screaming fans.
7.    (word wizard card)

1.    conquistadores (p. 33 par. 1)
2.    Perhaps she hid from the conquistadores.
3.    Look the word up in a dictionary.
4.    conquistadores - leaders in the Spanish conquest of America in the
       16th century.
5.    noun
6.    The conquistadores from Spain invaded the Aztec civilization.
7.    (word wizard card)

 
 

    Your job is to find an interesting character from this section.  List the trait, then list actions that prove this trait.  List page and paragraph numbers.
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Petang

Trait - playful (p. 47 and 48)
Action - The otter was swinging fish he caught from side to side.  He ran from Billie Wind, swam to the far side of the pit, and crawled up on the ledge and stared at her.  He dove into the water, came out, and shook the water all over her.
 
 

    Your job is to investigate the otter.  Tell of its habits as a baby and as an adult.

This website has a wealth of interesting facts about otters.  There are also pictures.
http://www.otternet.com/
 
 

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    Your job is to draw and color an otter in its habitat.

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