Island of the Blue Dolphins; Chp.

7-8; 9-11

Chapters 7-8
Assignment: Read chapters 7-8 making sure to update your characters sheet.
Orally summarize what you have read in these chapters to your teacher.
Finish the assignment below. You will need Figuratively Speaking to learn
more about similes on pg. 17-19. Choose an activity to do on your Activities
sheet.
After you read:
In chapters 7 and 8, Karana is faced with two huge crises in her life. Describe
what these two events were.
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Literary Device: Simile (Figuratively Speaking pp. 17-19)
A simile is used to compare two unrelated things, using the words like, as, or
seems.
Here is an example from chapter 8: the spit that thrust out like a fishhook into
the ocean. What two things are being compared in this simile?
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Create your own simile using an object in your classroom/home as your
subject:
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Chapters 9-11
Before you read: In the rest of the novel, Karana struggles with loneliness.
Think of a time in your life where you felt lonely. Describe the good and bad
of such a feeling.
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Assignment: Read chapters 9-11 and summarize the events that went on in
these chapters. Use Figuratively Speaking, pg. 23-25, to discuss
personification. Complete the rest below.
Summary of events in chapters 9-11:
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Literary Device: Personification
Personification is when an inanimate (non-living) object is given human
characteristics or actions.
Read the second paragraph in chp. 9 and find the example of personification.
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What object is being personified and what human action is it given?

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Think of an inanimate object from this book and create a sentence in which
the object is being personified.
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Activities:
Think of a creative, appropriate title for chapter 9 and write it down below.
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Choose an activity on your Activities sheet if you havent gotten enough of
the Island of the Blue Dolphins!

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