Monday, October 8, 2012

Woodsong

Gary Paulsen is a very famous author.  He writes a lot of realistic fiction about survival in the outdoors.  In the next selection that we are going to study in class, we will look at a memoir that he has written about an experience with an animal. 

To get us thinking about our own experiences in order to make connections with this text, could  you share an experience that you have had outdoors with an animal?  Feel free to comment on your classmate's stories as well.  I will start the conversation with a story from this weekend about my brother, Paul.

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  1. kengmanOctober 8, 2012 at 7:49 AM

    My parents live in Zim, which is a rural area that is right on the St. Louis River. In fact, my parents have a trail that goes right to the river in their backyard! As I was growing up we always walked along the trail and went fishing or tubing in the river. Now that I think about it, I was really lucky to have that so close to my house. My brother started bow hunting this year and asked my parents if he could hunt in the back along the trail where there is a wide open area. He was sitting outside in the stand when he saw a HUGE bear come walking out. He started making noises like a dog barking but the bear came closer and closer to him! He started to get really nervous because the bear wasn't scared at all. Finally the bear left, and so did Paul! He didn't hunt back there for the rest of the day. I go running on the roads around my parent's house and I think that I am going to take a break from that for a while. Wow! I don't want to have an experience like that!

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    1. JD!!!!October 8, 2012 at 10:08 AM

      ahola Mrs. Engman
      I have had an expirience in the wilderness before. Last year my dad shot a deer in our woods and when he gutted the doe I thought I would be sick for a while.

      Another time would be when my family and I went down to see our realitives in Lousiana, we went to my aunt Myra's place. She has a swamp/river in their place, it's huge. Well, when we went to see the swamp we saw snakes, frogs, and on our last time my dad and i even saw somthing like an Alligator!
      Well, got to go,ahola

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    2. AnonymousOctober 11, 2012 at 10:06 AM

      COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!

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    3. Shay DogOctober 11, 2012 at 6:20 PM

      Wow Mrs . E that would of had been really scary. When I was like about six we had bob cats that were really mean so we couldn't go out side and they started didgging in our garbage and one of them was pregnet so my dad had to shoot them because they started to become a big problem.

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  2. AnonymousOctober 8, 2012 at 9:59 AM

    I went camping one summer and a bird pooped on my brother`s hand. It was funny.
    ~Goober

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    1. AnonymousOctober 11, 2012 at 10:08 AM

      EW!ECLAMTION POINT! (you'll never hear anyone else but me say that last part)

      RJ

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  3. dadaOctober 8, 2012 at 10:01 AM

    i'm realy want to read this book so bad

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  4. dadaOctober 8, 2012 at 10:02 AM

    and i can't wait

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  5. lil JOctober 8, 2012 at 10:04 AM

    Tex and I were out for a walk in town then a tall skinny deer was chasing us!!!! It was so scary and we thought it was very sick. After that we went home as fast as we could and stayed in for the night.

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  6. AnonymousOctober 8, 2012 at 10:06 AM

    My friend Mackenzie lives out in the woods. She had a cat named Dora. The cat was walking around outside and it was on the road. Then a car hit the cat. They did not even say sorry. My step sister Jessica lives out in the wilderness & she has a cat named Pumkin. Pumkin was walking around outside by the road had he go got hit by a car but he is still aqlive.
    ~Goober

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  7. AnonymousOctober 8, 2012 at 10:06 AM

    One time I was camping in the boundry waters and we had hotdogs for lunch the next morning a squirrel was drinking the hotdog juice and another was eating bread crumbs. It was sad because squirrels don't usually eat meat but they do scavenge.
    -Tex

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    1. bugsyOctober 10, 2012 at 6:37 PM

      I bet it was funny watching slurp up the juice! :) I can just picture it now!

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    2. Shay DogOctober 11, 2012 at 6:15 PM

      Tex that is so funny what did you do when you saw that ?

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  8. AnonymousOctober 8, 2012 at 10:07 AM

    When my family went down our beaver pond we saw some wolf, beaver, deer, and moose tracks. And then we saw some beaver slides.
    MMM

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    1. AnonymousOctober 11, 2012 at 10:03 AM

      how do those work.

      RJ

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    2. JD!!!!November 8, 2012 at 8:59 AM

      bet that would be very fun and exciting

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  9. bugsyOctober 8, 2012 at 10:09 AM

    Once when me and my mom were on a walk with my small little springer spanel,cookie,our neighbors that have pigs,donkeys, and cows were not home at the time and we were on the walk. Well when we were walking past their yard, there donkeys were lose but they stay in the yard usally, but this time the little one started galloping to me and my mom and it stared to try and pounce on cookie dog. I was teriffied because i was holding the leash and then the mom donkey started coming towards us but she was on a leash with a weight on it but when she was running towards us her weight got stuck on the tractor part i will continue later.

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    1. AnonymousOctober 11, 2012 at 10:05 AM

      Hey Bugsy,
      Thats really funny. I can just imagine the goats trying to pounce on Cookie!
      Soph

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  10. pinkpandaOctober 8, 2012 at 10:09 AM

    I am surrounded by woods and it is very peacful. I like to run around and play fetch with my dogs Kyrah and BooBoo(a.k.a Otto). One time I was walking in the woods by my house and I heard a chirping noise behind a tree. I went to the tree and i found a little robin on its back. Its wing was wrapped around a vine. I slowly bent down to unwrap it. After a few minutes, the robin flew away. I was so proud of myself!

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  11. AnonymousOctober 8, 2012 at 10:09 AM

    One time when I was on a canoe trip we were fishing and all of a sudden I thought I was snagged on the bottom of the lake but it was actually a huge northern! But there was too much meat on it for us to be able to eat it all so I let it go.:)
    Soph

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  12. AnonymousOctober 8, 2012 at 10:09 AM

    i was camping and a bear would not leave me alone it ate my uncles lemmon drops out of his ziplocked bag in his tackle box in the boat at the shore it was skarry but now when we go camping we bring the 44 and now we always have the food up in the tree...............................................................................................................................................................................................................................te

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  13. AnonymousOctober 9, 2012 at 5:36 AM

    I was waliking to the school a couple weeks ago and all of a sudden a goose started chasig me! I was soooooooo scared. I had a Brisk fruit punch and a bacon ranch pizza. I think it wanted my pizza! :)

    Another story is when my mom,dad,brother,and I got back from Ely I steped out of the car and saw a WOLF! I yelled"WOLF!"
    He was in our garden eating compost. It was a lone wolf. I was so scared. He was only five feet away from me!
    -CloCho

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    1. AnonymousOctober 9, 2012 at 5:37 AM

      Sorry On line 1 waliking is supposed to be walking. :)
      -CloCho

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    2. GooberOctober 10, 2012 at 10:00 AM

      Hey CloCho,
      I would have been scarded to if the wolf was only 5 Feet away.
      ~Goober

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    3. AnonymousOctober 10, 2012 at 4:59 PM

      Wow thats really cool but I would be really scared if I were you!!:)
      Soph

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    4. bugsyOctober 11, 2012 at 10:01 AM

      I would be tariffied, once i was in my garden and my mom was in the garden to and we watched a wolf walk down the road and it was 4 feet away from my mom and I!!
      So I can remember what you went through.

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    5. AnonymousOctober 11, 2012 at 10:05 AM

      I think that would be scary and cool at the same time (but mostly COOL!)

      RJ

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    6. AnonymousOctober 17, 2012 at 1:51 PM

      Nice RJ!
      -CloCho

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  14. AnonymousOctober 9, 2012 at 6:09 PM

    When I was five, I caught my first fish, two large-mouth bass.My dad took me to Skube's to register the fish and my picture appered in The Angler. Last summer I caught a Walleye and a Trout.

    -Rj

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    1. GooberOctober 10, 2012 at 9:57 AM

      Hey RJ,
      When I was about 5, I had my LUCKY fishing pole. But we lost it. I caught a fish about as long as your arm. I don't know what kind it was. My grandma Kathy had lost alot of her fishing line. A differnt time when I went camping at Dunka River. I went camping off of the bridge there ans I had a zepco rino fishing pole. I lost my bobber, sinkers, some of the line, my hook, & my bait. Me and my step sister Jessica thougt it was a rino fish & my other step sister Cindy did not care. At lest it was not the whole contier og bait.
      ~Goober

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    2. AnonymousOctober 10, 2012 at 5:03 PM

      Thats really cool RJ! How big was the walleye You caught?
      Soph

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    3. AnonymousOctober 11, 2012 at 9:53 AM

      The Wallye and the Trout were both a foot long

      -RJ

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    4. bugsyOctober 11, 2012 at 10:02 AM

      Hey rj thats really cool that would be cool if I got my pic tooken!!

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    5. GOOBEROctober 11, 2012 at 10:08 AM

      Hey RJ,
      Do you have pictures of the fish. If you do I want to see them someday.
      ~GOOBER

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    6. AnonymousOctober 11, 2012 at 10:10 AM

      If anyone has a cool fish story please e-mail me at rj.jacks@frontier.com

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  15. bugsyOctober 10, 2012 at 6:23 PM

    back to my story, so my mom had to help the mom but we got our neighbor to help and now they don't have them for one bite the owners

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  16. Shay DogOctober 11, 2012 at 9:59 AM

    I love to blog it is so much fun its nice to here every one's stoies.

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    1. bugsyOctober 11, 2012 at 10:04 AM

      Me to it's just like texting and imagin if we didn't have this, I would not have learned any of these stories!!

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    2. AnonymousOctober 11, 2012 at 10:09 AM

      I love the blog too! It is so cool to here all of these stories and its a great way to have a good conversation when we are not in school! And I agree with Kayla it is like texting!!:)
      Soph

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    3. AnonymousOctober 11, 2012 at 10:09 AM

      I mean I agree with Bugsy! Sorry!!
      Soph

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  17. AnonymousOctober 11, 2012 at 10:01 AM

    it is-monk

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  18. bugsyOctober 11, 2012 at 10:06 AM

    One time when we went camping we bought a cheesecake and we left it outside and then we saw a racoon eating it and my dad and grandpa cut of the part it ate and ate the rest :( blah

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    1. AnonymousOctober 11, 2012 at 10:10 AM

      Ewwww!! But it is kind of funny!:)
      Soph

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