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September 2-5, 2014

To Build a Fire Bell Work

Ms. Mirenda requests that you make a copy of the document and then close her original. Thank you.

Monday
1A. What technique is used in the following passage? “But the dog knew; all its ancestry knew, and it had inherited the knowledge. And it knew that it was not good to walk abroad in such fearful cold.” (London 6-7)

	Personification-human traits given to objects or animals
	Metaphor-a direct comparison without using like or as

1B. What evidence from the text helped you determine your answer for 1A?

2A. Which sentence below is most similar in meaning to the word apprehension as used in this passage? “So the dog made no effort to communicate its apprehension to the man.” (London 12-13)
	
	The dog is very grateful to have a loving owner.
	Mr. Olguin’s class has a test today so the students are nervous and scared.
	
2B. What evidence from the text helped you determine your answer for 2A?

3A. Based upon this following passage, how are the dog and the blood alike? “The blood was alive, like the dog, and like the dog it wanted to hide away and cover itself up from the fearful cold.” (London 50-51)
Both enjoy being outside in the extreme weather
Both know it is not a good idea to be outside in such cold weather

3B. What evidence from the text helped you determine your answer for 3A?

Tuesday
4A. What literary technique does the author use in the following passage? 
“...the thick German socks were like sheaths of iron half-way to the knees
...the strings were like rods of steel all twisted and knotted…” (London 74-76) 
	
	Irony-when the opposite of what you expect happens
Simile-a comparison using like or as

4B. What evidence from the text helped you determine your answer for 4A?

5A. Why does the man describe the old-timers as, “...rather womanish…” (London 65)

To  illustrate the man’s skillful knowledge about surviving in the cold
To show the man’s close minded attitude toward accepting advice 

5B. What evidence from the text helped you determine your answer for 5A?

6A. What realization does the man come to at the end of the text?
		He will return to camp by 6 o’clock.
		He will die from his mistakes. 

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

Wednesday
7A. Why does the author include the following passage? 
“Those old-timers were rather womanish, some of them, he thought.
 All a man had to do was to keep his head, and he was all right.
 Any man who was a man could travel alone.” (London 65-67)

To emphasize the man’s belief that he is smarter, tougher and more courageous than the old-timers 
To emphasize the fact that the man knows he needs all the advice he can receive

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

8A. How does the author organizes many parts of the text?
	Describing personal impressions of his hike through the snow
	Comparing perspectives of the dog, the man and the old-timers

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

9A. How is the old-timer important to the plot?
	The old-timer was not important to the plot since he was not the main character. 
	His advice, if taken, would have saved the man from dying.

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

Thursday
10A. How are the man and the old timer different?
	The man is arrogant and the old timer is knowledgeable about survival.
	The man is stubborn and the old timer is not helpful.

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

11A. How does the author create a mood of apathy (intolerance or unsympathetic feeling) so the reader does not feel sorry for the man?  (Mood is the emotional response the author wants a reader to feel toward the text.)
	The man ignores the old-timer’s advice and he acts macho 
The man only makes one mistake.

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

12A. What technique is used in the phrase, “...throat-sounds that threatened the whip-lash.” (London 12)
	alliteration-a repeated sound at the beginning of a word
	onomatopoeia-a word that makes a noise sound

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

13A. To Build a Fire is an example of what type of text?
	Non-fiction	OR	Fiction 

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

14A. What technique is used in the phrase, “He wetted himself half-way to the knees before he floundered out to the firm crust.” (London 22-23)
	Alliteration	OR	Rhyming

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

Friday

15A. What literary technique does the author use in this passage, “And it knew that it was not good to walk abroad in such fearful cold.” (London 7)
	Satire-making fun of a character to make him/her change his behavior
	Foreshadow-hinting at a future event in the text

15B. What evidence from the text helped you determine your answer for 15A?

16A. How does the third person point-of-view affect To Build a Fire?
The lack of details about the man allows the reader to see him the same way
as Jack London sees him: arrogant and foolish
It allows the reader to see and hear what the man is thinking causing us to feel
sorry for him.

16B. What evidence from the text helped you determine your answer for 16A?

17A. What is the theme of To Build a Fire?
A well prepared man can die an early death.
A man’s arrogance in the natural world will result in an early death.

17B. What evidence from the text helped you determine your answer for 17A?

18A. What part of speech is fire?
	noun-person, place, thing or idea
	adjective-a word that describes a noun

18B. Fire is a ____ because _____. Fire is not an ____ because it ___.