Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott Odell

Timeline 1811 - Juana Maria is born sometime before this date 1814 - Massacre of Nicoleño population by Native Alaskan hunters 1835 - Santa Barbara Mission rescues almost all of the islanders 1853 - Juana Maria is rescued from the island and taken to Santa Barbara Mission October 19, 1853 - Juana Maria dies 7 weeks later

Our new essential question is: How can reading literature help us to understand a culture? I picked Island of the Blue Dolphins because evidence of Karena's Indian culture is prevalent throughout the novel. On this poster you can see that we are adding evidence from the novel of various customs/beliefs of the island people. One writing assignment we worked on had to do with choices the main character has to make. Karena's brother does not make it to the ship that has come to rescue the…

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A CASTAWAY. In a recent number of the San Francisco Call an account is g'ven of an Indian woman who was accidentally abandoned on San Nicolas Island, off the const of Southern California, and spent 18 yeais alone there before she was rescued. The fact of her existence was discovered by a man who went from the mainland to hunt for otters, and who found footprints sunk deeply in the ground. He was unable to follow up these indications till nearly three years, when one of a party who…

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Just a project I did for class for the novel, Island of the Blue Dolphins. I had to explain what a "Devil Fish" was. There wasn't much to it. So yea kinda bo...

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Our new essential question is: How can reading literature help us to understand a culture? I picked Island of the Blue Dolphins because evidence of Karena's Indian culture is prevalent throughout the novel. On this poster you can see that we are adding evidence from the novel of various customs/beliefs of the island people. One writing assignment we worked on had to do with choices the main character has to make. Karena's brother does not make it to the ship that has come to rescue the…