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DOL. Answers. Focused Freewrite-5 min. Would you rather: Be the most popular student in school? Or Be the smartest student in school?. Week Sail Rode Right Toe Who’s Wood. Flower Knight Cent Peddle Presents Rain rays. Homophones-write the homophone of the following words.
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Focused Freewrite-5 min. • Would you rather: Be the most popular student in school? Or Be the smartest student in school?
Week Sail Rode Right Toe Who’s Wood Flower Knight Cent Peddle Presents Rain rays Homophones-write the homophone of the following words.
Vocabulary practice-1Fill in the blank with a vocabulary word. • Hurricane Katrina was a true_____ for the people of New Orleans. • When hiking the boy _________ when he saw a snake. • Our state leaders have ________ a meeting to impeach our governor. • Hunter and Dylan are ________. • You must show _________ to your classmates.
Historical context of ‘To Build A Fire’ • In August 1896, prospectors George Washington Carmack, Skookum Jim, and Dawson Charley discovered gold on Rabbit Creek (renamed Bonanza Creek) in the remote Klondike region of Canada's Yukon Territory. In July 1897, the S.S. Portland arrived in Seattle, Washington, with more than a ton of Klondike gold on board. This event touched off the great Klondike Gold Rush as thousands of people who dreamed of becoming wealthy began booking passage on steamers heading north from Seattle and other West Coast ports. Upon arriving at the northern end of the Inside Passage, however, these adventure-bound stampeders found no easy route leading to the still distant Klondike region. The most direct route involved climbing over either the White Pass Trail from Skagway, Alaska, or the Chilkoot Pass Trail from Dyea (pronounced Die-ee) to Bennett Lake, the headwaters of the Yukon River. Stampeders then had to build a boat to navigate 500 miles down the Yukon River. Their final destination was Dawson City, a town that developed near the gold fields. Between 1897 and 1900 more than 100,000 people, from many nations and from all walks of life, set out on the arduous journey to the Klondike. No more than 40,000 actually reached Dawson City, however, and only a few obtained the wealth that they dreamed of along the route.
To Build a Fire-page 488 • Who is the foil? • What does the author seems to being saying about knowledge and instinct?
Images of what our character might have encountered. • A typical mining town.
Questions to answer as we read • What is ironic about the man repeating, “It certainly was cold.” • By using the dog as the foil for the man, what foreshadowing does the author give us about the ending and who will survive? • On pg. 489 the man makes a huge mistake, what was it? what are two other mistakes the man has made throughout? • On page 490 the author again gives us many instances of foreshadowing, what are they? • “He willed to close them-the wires were down and the fingers did not obey.” What is meant by wires in this quote?
Partner activity • You and your partner are facing a life and death situation just like our character. Analyze the situation you have been given and figure out how you would try to survive.
