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Date: September 8-12, 2014

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The North Pole Text 6 Bell Work

Monday: Compare and contrast Text 5 To Build a Fire to Text 6 The North Pole. An example is given for each section.

Only TRUE for Text 5
 To Build a Fire	True for BOTH texts	Only TRUE for Text 6 
The North Pole	
Ex.  Fiction

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	Ex. Arctic Climate
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5.	Ex. Non-fiction
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Tuesday 

1A. Why did Robert Peary most likely write the text, The North Pole?
To inform the readers about the dangers of crossing the arctic 
To entertain the readers about the enjoyment of crossing the arctic

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

2A. What is the purpose of the following passage?
“Sometimes these leads are mere cracks running through old floes…
 Sometimes they are zigzag lanes of water...Sometimes they are rivers
 of open water...half a mile to two miles in width.”

To foreshadow a future event in the text  
To use imagery to describe very specific details
  
2B. What evidence from the text helped you answer 2A?

3A. The North Pole excerpt by Robert Peary is most likely considered what type of passage?
 	Short Story	 or	 Poem		or 	Novel

3B. What elements used in the novel helped you determine the answer for 3A?

Wednesday

4A. According to the text, what does the author suggest is the result of using a sleeping-bag while sleeping on the polar ice if the big lead opened?
	The man would drown since his arms and legs would not be free to move
	The man would be very warm while he was waiting to be rescued

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

5A. In the text, The North Pole, what is the meaning of the underlined words in the phrase, “...one my search for a cake of ice, or hack out a cake with pickaxes…” (Peary 20)
		A sweet baked good made from dough
		A hard layer shaped like a rectangle

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

6A. In the text, The North Pole, why does the author continually refer to the leads?
            	To emphasize the dangers of leads and offer suggestions for crossing them
            	To emphasize how easy it is for explorers to cross the leads

6B. What evidence supports your answer to 6A?

Thursday

7A. What literary device is used in the following passage, “...for fear that they may prevent further advance…”
		personification
		alliteration

7B. What evidence from the passage helped you answer 7A?

8A. How is the following passage organized?
		“There are various ways of crossing the leads.  One can go to the right or 
the left...Or, the traveler can wait until the ice comes quite together...one may
wait until the ice has formed thick enough...Or, one may search for a cake
of ice...” (Peary 15-20)

Question and Answer
Problem and Solution

8B. What evidence from the passage helped you answer 8A?

9A. In the text, The North Pole, which statement is an opinion? (Remember an opinion is a statement that you might believe, but I might not believe.)

“The ridges...are not the worst feature of the arctic ice. Far more
 troublesome and dangerous are the leads…” (Pear 1-2)
“with the temperature between fifteen and thirty degrees below
 zero…” (Peary 62)

9B. What evidence from the passage helped you answer 9A?

10A. Why did Robert Peary most likely write, The North Pole?
		To persuade his readers to explore the North Pole
		To inform his readers about the dangers of the North Pole

10B. What evidence from the passage helped you answer 10A?

Friday

Use the following passage to answer questions 11 and 12.

		“...imagine tramping through such a storm all day long, over jagged
and uneven ice...no shelter to look forward to at the end of the day’s
 march…[except the] cold snow house which they would...build…”
(Peary 61-64)

11A. What type of literary device is used in the following passage?
		Irony	or 	Imagery

11B. What evidence from the passage helped you answer 11A?

12A. How is the above passage organized?
		Ordered series of events (Chronological order)
            	Problem and solution

12B. What evidence helped you answer 12A?

13A. What is the tone of The North Pole? (Remember, tone is the author’s attitude toward a subject.)
		serious and instructive 
		comical and entertaining

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