Your job is to read as much of chapter 5 with your partner
as you can. Be sure to stop and take
notes as you read. Consider the
questions below as you try to read for understanding. All page numbers apply to
my book, yours may not be exact if you are not in period 9 English)
Stop at “Buck heard the chaffering...(53)” describe the new
owners as you know them so far. How do
you predict they will fare in the Northland? Explain/discuss.
Stop at “Late next morning…” (59) Review last 4 pages—what
do you think of Mercedes, Hal and Charles? Discuss your feelings about each and
consider how London develops them as characters (in other words what words
inform your opinion about each?)
Stop at “The first to go was Dub” (bottom 60). How is the trip going so far? Toil vs
pride?(of trail and trace)
Stop at “In the excess of their own misery…” (63) What’s
happening to the family relationships? (60—63)
Stop at “It was beautiful spring weather…”(65) What’s
happening to the sled dogs? (63-65)
What differences are there so far between Hal. Mercedes and Charles
and Francois and Perrault/Scotch half-breed?
Stop at “With the dogs falling..” (66) What’s happening with
the weather? Why should the drivers care?
Stop at “As Buck watched them…”(69) What happened between
John and Hal?
Discuss—What does the title of the chapter mean?
·
YOU WILL
BE QUIZZED ON MONDAY BE SURE TO FINISH THE CHAPTER AND READ FOR UNDERSTANDING. Capitalize on this time reading with a partner
to ask questions of each other and work toward understanding.
·
Reader’s
notebooks must be turned in by Thursday any late notebooks will lose 10 points
a day—MAJOR GRADE.
·
Logs will
be collected on Monday as well
.
