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Island of the Blue Dolphins By: Dan Gutman Thinking Strategy Resources, Graphic Organizers, and Reading Responses About the Author Scott O’Dell Hometown: ________________________ Other Books They’ve Written: _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ Interesting Facts About the Author: _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ Reader’s Name: _______________ STORY SUMMARY Island of the Blue Dolphins By: Scott O’Dell CHARACTERs PLOT SETTING Island of the Blue Dolphins By: Scott O’Dell Characters Character One: How They Are How They Are Alike Different Character Two: Island of the Blue Dolphins By: Scott O’Dell Characters CHARACTER At the beginning of the story… At the end of the story… Island of the Blue Dolphins By: Scott O’Dell Characters CHARACTER Action Motivation What did they do? Why did they do it? Character Traits Island of the Blue Dolphins By: Scott O’Dell Character Karana Rontu Tutok Ramo Character Traits Character Traits Island of the Blue Dolphins By: Scott O’Dell Character The Aleuts Ulape Chowig Captain Orlov Character Traits Character Traits Island of the Blue Dolphins By: Scott O’Dell Character Kimki Matasaip Nanko Tainor Character Traits Character Traits Island of the Blue Dolphins By: Scott O’Dell Character Lurai Mon-a-tee Rontu-Aru The White Men Character Traits Character Traits Island of the Blue Dolphins By: Scott O’Dell Character Character Traits Island of the Blue Dolphins By: Scott O’Dell Setting TIME PLACE Island of the Blue Dolphins By: Scott O’Dell Plot PROBLEM SOLUTION Island of the Blue Dolphins By: Scott O’Dell External Conflict External Conflict Solution Island of the Blue Dolphins By: Scott O’Dell Internal Conflict Internal Conflict Solution Determining Importance of Plot in Island of the Blue Dolphins By: Scott O’Dell Green Light Very Important events Yellow Light Red Light Important events Not Important events Questions I Had in Island of the Blue Dolphins Before Reading During Reading After Reading New Words I Found Island of the Blue Dolphins New Word (and page number) What I Think it Means What the Dictionary Says it Means Figurative Language I Found Island of the Blue Dolphins Figurative Language Simile Metaphor Onomatopoeia Hyperbole Example From Text Text-to-Text Connections Connecting Fiction Texts Island of the Blue Dolphins _________________________ Book Title By: Scott O’Dell How can we connect these two texts? Text-to-Self Connections Connecting Our Lives to a Fiction Text Island of the Blue Dolphins By: Scott O’Dell How can you connect with this text? Text-to-World Connections Connecting Large Groups of People to a Fiction Text Island of the Blue Dolphins By: Scott O’Dell How can we connect this text to the world? Text-to-Self Connections: Characters Island of the Blue Dolphins By: Scott O’Dell Character Karana Rontu Tutok Ramo Character Noticing How can you connect to this character? Give evidence from the text. Text-to-Self Connections: Characters Island of the Blue Dolphins By: Scott O’Dell Character The Aleuts Ulape Chowig Captain Orlov Character Noticing How can you connect to this character? Give evidence from the text. Text-to-Self Connections: Characters Island of the Blue Dolphins By: Scott O’Dell Character Character Noticing How can you connect to this character? Give evidence from the text. My Important Thoughts While Reading Island of the Blue Dolphins By: Scott O’Dell Thoughts Page Number and Evidence from Text Sensory Images in Island of the Blue Dolphins By: Scott O’Dell What I Could See What I Could Hear What I Could Taste What I Could Smell What I Could Feel Describing the Setting Reader’s Name: __________________ Sensory Image Title of Book/Story: Island of the Blue Dolphins By: Scott O’Dell What This Tells Us About the Setting Inferring Character Feelings Island of the Blue Dolphins By: Scott O’Dell Character How do they feel? Evidence from Text to Support My Thinking My Inference Picture I can infer that _______________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ Cause and Effect in Island of the Blue Dolphins Cause Effect Because of this… This happens… Inferring Reader’s Name: _______________ Title of the Book: Island of the Blue Dolphins By: Scott O’Dell Evidence from the Text: What I Already Know: Inference: Inferring My Inference: Reader’s Name: _______________ Title of the Book: Island of the Blue Dolphins By: Scott O’Dell CLUE: CLUE: CLUE: “I felt as if I had been gone a long time as I stood there looking down from the high rock. I was happy to be home. Everything I saw - the otter playing in the kelp, the rings of foam around the rocks guarding the harbor, the gulls flying, the tides moving past the sandspit - filled me with happiness.” -Island of the Blue Dolphins Explain this quotation and the importance it has in the story. ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ “Below me, Rontu was running along the cliff barking at the screaming gulls. Pelicans were chattering as they fished the blue water. Far off I could hear the bellow of a sea elephant. But suddenly, as I thought of Tutok, the island seemed very quiet.” -Island of the Blue Dolphins Explain this quotation and the importance it has in the story. ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ “Ulape would have laughed at me, and others would have laughed, too - my father most of all. Yes this is the way I felt about the animals who had become my friends and those who were not, but in time could be. If Ulape and my father had come back and laughed, and all the others had come back and laughed, still I wouldhave felt the same way, for animals and birds are like people, too, though they do not talk the same or do the same things. Without them the earth would be an unhappy place.” -Island of the Blue Dolphins Explain this quotation and the importance it has in the story. ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ “Until that summer, I had kept count of all the moons since the time my brother and I were alone on the island. For each one that came and went I cut a mark in a pole beside the door of my house. There were many marks, from the roof to the floor. But after that summer I did not cut them any more. The passing of the moons now had come to mean little, and I only made marks to count the four seasons of the year. The last year I did not count those.” -Island of the Blue Dolphins Explain this quotation and the importance it has in the story. ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ “Now that the white men had come back, I could not think of what I would do when I went across the sea, or make picture in my mind of the white men and what they did there, or see my people who had been gone so long. Nor, thinking of the past, of the many summers and winters and springs that had gone, could I see each of them. They were all one, a tight feeling in my breast and nothing more.” -Island of the Blue Dolphins Explain this quotation and the importance it has in the story. ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ Island of the Blue Dolphins Comprehension Questions How is loneliness a theme in Island of the Blue Dolphins? Use evidence from the text to support your answer. ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ How does Karana change throughout the story? Include details from the text in your answer. ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ Island of the Blue Dolphins Comprehension Questions How is trust a theme in Island of the Blue Dolphins? Use evidence from the text to support your answer. ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ How is Karana able to survive throughout the story? What techniques does she use? ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ Island of the Blue Dolphins Comprehension Questions Dolphins are a symbol in Island of the Blue Dolphins. Why? How do you know this? ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ Does the end of the story surprise you? Would you change the ending or keep it the same? Why? ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ Letter to the Author Activity Write a letter to Scott O’Dell, the authors of Island of the Blue Dolphins. In this letter, please explain your favorite part of the book. Include details from the book and two reasons. Be sure to use all of the elements of a friendly letter in your writing. Have fun! __________________ Dear Scott O’Dell, ______________________________________ ______________________________________ ______________________________________ ______________________________________ ______________________________________ ______________________________________ ______________________________________ ______________________________________ ________________ ________________ Book Commercial Why should people read Island of the Blue Dolphins? _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ What We Can Learn from Island of the Blue Dolphins My Picture of the Theme/Lesson Thank you to…
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