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Friday, March 11, 2016

PAINT THE WIND - Questions for Discussion



1.     What do you know about wild horses?

2.     How did her grandmother treat Maya and her housekeepers?

3.     Why did Maya’s grandmother hate horses?

4.     Where were Maya’s parents? Why were the toy horses so important to Maya?

5.     Why did Maya get the housekeeper fired from her job? How did she do it? 
Do you agree with   Maya?  

6.     Why didn’t Maya stay with her mother’s family during summer as her parent’s will?

7.     Who did pick Maya up at the airport? Why did he cry when he saw her?

8.     Why didn’t Maya want to go to the camp without Uncle Fig and her grandpa?

9.     How did she feel about being her mother’s house and wearing her boots? 

10.   How was Maya and Payton’s relationship? 

11.   Why didn’t Maya tell on Payton for taking her toy houses?

12.    What did Maya do to get back at Payton? Have you ever done anything to get back at someone for being mean to you?

13.   Do you agree with how Aunt Vi treated Maya at her riding lesson?

14.   What lesson Aunt Vi tried to teach Maya?

15.   How old was Wyeth? Why did Sargent drive Wyeth out of the group?

16.  Why do you think Payton found and the plastic horse back in Maya’s tent?

17.  Do you think Maya should have gone after Artemisia and Klee?

18. Are you surpised by Klee’s death?  How did it make you feel when you read this part of the book?

19. Was Maya being smart with her survival technique?  How did she get back to the campsite?

20.  How did Maya’s relationship with Artemisia help her feel closer to her mother?

21. How did Payton save Maya’s toy horses from the flood?  How did he give them back to her?

22. How has Maya changed since she left her grandmother’s home and moved to     Wyoming?

23. Why did Maya release Artemisia back to the wild?

24. Who named the horses? Where those names come from? 

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