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August 18-22, 2014

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			The Last Expedition Bell Work
Monday
1A. How does the author organize the following passage from The Last Expedition excerpt?
“The seductive folds of the sleeping-bag. This hiss of the primus and the fragrant
 steam of the cooker issuing from the tent ventilator. The small green tent and the
 great white road.” (Scott 5-7)

personal thoughts and vivid imagery (five senses)
generalization (broad statement that describes similar objects or events as the same)  

1B. What evidence from the text helped you determine your answer for 1A?
He sees and he smell items near him. This is a journal entry.He uses eye catching words with a lot of details. He pulls the reader in by using these words.

2A. Why does Robert Falcon Scott describe the surroundings in such details?
		To persuade others to be explorers
		To allow the reader to see the South Pole through his eyes 

2B. What evidence from the text helped you determine your answer for 2A?
Scott is seeing his surroundings and he is not persuading me. He explains the items around him such as, “as of the primus…”( Scott 5-7)

3A. What technique is used in the following passage?
 “The drift snow like finest flour penetrating every hole and corner—flickering  up beneath one's head covering...” (Scott 18-19)

	alliteration-the same letter sound repeated at the beginning of a word
	onomatopoeia-a word that mimics a sound

3B. What evidence helped you determine your answer for 3A?
The answer is alliteration because three words start with the /f/ sound.

Tuesday
4A. What technique is used in the following passage?
 “The drift snow...pricking sharply as a sand blast.” (Scott 19)

	simile-a comparison using like or as
	metaphor-a direct comparison that does not use like or as

4B. What evidence from the text helped you determine your answer for 4A?
The word as was used to compare  the  snow to sand blast.

5A. What literary device is used in the following passage? “The seductive folds of the sleeping-bag.”

Personification-human traits given to objects or animals
Hyperbole-an exaggeration used to make a point
 
5B. What evidence from the text helped you determine your answer for 5A?
The sleeping bag cannot be seductive, but a human can be very….

6A. The Last Expedition is an example of what type of text?
Historical Fiction- true, historical parts mixed in a pretend story
Narrative Journal- a diary written by that person

6B. What evidence helped you determine your answer for 6A?  

Wednesday

7A. How is the setting important to the plot?
	It informs the reader about the success of the expedition.
	It reveals and emphasize the dangers of the environment.

7B. What evidence from the text helped you determine your answer for 7A?

8A. What was the main purpose of Robert Falcon Scott’s journey?
To reach the unconquered wilderness of the South Pole
To survive the fierce blizzards

8B.  What evidence from the text helped you determine your answer for 8A?

9A. Based on the title of the text, The Last Expedition, what can you infer about Robert Falcon Scott’s adventure?
After his successful adventure at the South Pole, Scott participated in additional journeys.
Scott’s scientific discovery ended in tragedy, so it was his last journey.

9B. What evidence from the text helped you determine your answer for 9A?

Thursday
Read the following passage to answer questions 10 and 12.

“The driving cloud of powdered snow. The crunch of footsteps which break
 the surface crust.” (Scott 9-10)  “Cloudy columns of snow drift advancing from
 the south, pale yellow wraiths, heralding the coming storm, blotting out one by
 one the sharp-cut lines of the land.” (Scott 22-24)

10A. How is the above passage similar?
 All the lines describe the approaching blizzard.
 All the lines describe Scott’s admiration for the South Pole.  

10B. What evidence from the text helped you determine your answer for 10A?

11A. How is the above passage different? 
At first, the lines describe the powerful blizzard and ends with the sun shining.
At first, the lines describe a gentle storm approaching and end with the arrival of a powerful, dangerous blizzard.

11B. What evidence from the text helped you determine your answer for 11A? 

12A.Which sentence below is most similar in meaning to the word wraiths as used in this passage? “Cloudy columns of snow drift advancing from the south, pale yellow wraiths, heralding the coming storm…” (Scott 22-23)

The snow clouds looked like faint streaks of smoke.
The ghostlike image is an omen that Robert Falcon Scott will soon die.

12B. What evidence from the text helped you determine your answer for 12A? 

Friday

13A. What source is The Last Expedition?
		Primary Source
		Secondary Source

13B. What evidence from the text helped you determine your answer for 13B?

14A. What is one word to classify this list: crevasse, gorge, abyss, fissure and gap?
Hole		OR		Solid

14B. What evidence from the text helped you determine your answer for 14A?

15A. What part of speech is chides as used in the following passage? “The droning conversation of the march as driver encourages or chides his horse.” (Scott 14)	
Adverb (describes a verb)	   OR       Verb

  15B. Chides is a ___________ because _______________________________. Chides in not a/an  _________ because it does not ____________________.

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