Mrs. Edith Wild
International School of Broward
3100 N. 75th Ave
Hollywood, FL 33024
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (954) 987-2026
Fax:
(954) 987-7261
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Achieving student progress requires flexibility to ensure each class’s unique needs
are met. For this reason, please be aware these assignments are subject to change.
Your student will always be notified of such changes in class
PLEASE SEE End of document for worksheets for each class:
COURSE 8th grade, French Track and English track Period 1 & 4
RECAP ~ for Monday October 27th: The Call of the Wild and the following work:
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You Have read chapters 6 and are ready to finish the novel
You have the worksheets for Chapters 1 – 5 turned in, work done on chapter 6
WS
Turn in WS sheet 6 for review
Students will complete EDMODO ACTIVITY for Call of the Wild and review for the test on
Tuesday for chapters 5 & 6 Students read chapter 7, please find worksheet at end of PDF
Tuesday, October 28st: Students review for Test on Whole book on Thursday
Wednesday, October 29nd: Students review for test on Thursday
Thursday: October 30rd: Reads in TexTbook Jack London’s biogRaphy and
‘The king of Mazy May’ a Jack London sToRy.
Friday: October 31th: Continue with the King of Mazy May, test on Monday
November 3rd
Special Notes: Purchase the book Number the Stars by Lois Lowry for
November 12th …..
Call of the Wild by Jack London is the Book
Read least 30 minutes every night! Annotate your story – study your notes! We can use extra
copy paper and black expo markers for the class.
For French Track Students or other ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) a website
has come to our attention as a useful English learning tool: https://www.duolingo.com/
COURSE 9th grade, French and English Track
HW LISTED BY DATE ~ Lord of the Flies by William Golding began Monday,
October 6th
Monday, October 27th:
Study for test on Tuesday (chapters 5,6)
Tuesday October 28th : Chapter 7 Due Wednesday
-Comprehension Questions Due
-Journal 7 to be completed in class
Wednesday October 29th : Read chapter 8
2.
Conflict Worksheet, remaining character worksheets
Thursday October 23rd :
Chapter 7 & 8 Due tomorrow
-Comprehension Questions Due for chapters 7 & 8
-Journals 8,9 will be completed in class
Friday 10/24/2014:
Chapter 9, 10 Due on Monday
-Comprehension Questions Due on Monday (handout given in class
Special Notes:
Read your assigned novel at least 30 minutes every night! Annotate your novel (per instructions)
– study your notes! We can use extra copy paper and black expo markers for the class.
For French Track Students or other ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) a website
has come to our attention as a useful English learning tool: https://www.duolingo.com/
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COURSE 10th grade
RECAP ~
Monday, October 27th:
Test on Monday October 29th
WebquesT!!!!!!! Via edModo….
VeRMeeR’s backgRound foR Girl With A Pearl Earring please print out these
PDF documents
http://deyoung.famsf.org/files/johannes_vermeer_girl_with_a_pearl_earring.pdf
Please complete Assigned work on the Following document. Some of the information
will be on the tests. The first 11 worksheets are graded assignments.
http://www.macmillan.ru/upload/The_students/olimp/cao/mezhpredmetnye_proe
kty/project%201.pdf
http://www.youblisher.com/p/841258-Girl-With-A-Pearl-Earring/
Please note, Join us at http://www.Edmodo.com
Read Vermeer’s Background Bio
http://www.biography.com/people/jan-vermeer-9517541
Tuesday, October 28th : Edmodo activity - must log in and complete 2nd
vocabulary activity
Wednesday October 29th : Girl With a Pearl earring, section 173-200~
read, take notes and vocabulary activity on Edmodo.
Thursday: October 30rd: Girl With a Pearl earring, section 3 ~ 1666 pp
200 - 216, read, take notes,,.study for quiz on Monday
Friday: October 31st Finish book : Girl With a Pearl earring, section 2 ~
1666 pp 170 -190, read, take notes -and vocabulary activity on
edModo. ReMindeR…BookTest on Monday!
Special Notes:
Read your assigned novel at least 30 minutes every night! Annotate your novel– study your
notes! We can use extra copy paper and black expo markers for the class.
For French Track Students or other ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) a website
has come to our attention as a useful English learning tool: https://www.duolingo.com/
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WS For Grade 8 Call of the Wild
CHAPTER VI:
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
1. How did Buck’s relationship with John Thornton differ from his relationships with his previous masters? How does
London illustrate Buck’s intense feelings for Thornton? How is this in keeping with his new, more primitive self? How
does Buck balance his love for Thornton with his more primitive self?
2. What does London mean by the following quotation:
“He was older than the days he had seen and the breaths he had drawn.” (57)
3. How does Buck’s love for Thornton compare to Dave’s love of toiling in the traces?
4. Explain the meaning of the following quotation:
“Each] day mankind and the claims of mankind slipped farther from him.
Deep in the forest a call was sounding, and as often as he heard this call,
mysteriously thrilling and luring, he felt compelled to turn his back upon
the fire, and to plunge into the forest … But as often as he gained the soft
unbroken earth and the green shade, the love of John Thornton drew him
back to the fire again.” (57)
VOCABULARY
eloquent (55): expressive
nudge (55); push or prod
reverently (55): respectfully, as if something were holy
feigned (55): pretended
transient (56): not permanent; traveling
aroused (56): awakened
tenderfoot (58): one new at something
contagion (63): spreadable disease
conjuration (64): something created by magic
ACTIVITIES ~ do two of the following activities
1. List in a compare/contrast illustrated diagram Buck’s similarities with John Thornton.
2. Create a collage or photomontage of the pets you have owned or would like to own. Be sure to include what
qualities you have that make you (or would make you) a good pet owner.
3. Research animal rescue organizations and the behaviors of abused animals. How would Buck’s relationship with
John Thornton fit into a behavior pattern of an abused dog?
4. Describe how Thornton exploits Buck’s love for him and why Buck continues to perform seemingly impossible,
yet unnecessary tasks for his master.
QUOTATIONS ~ explain these quotes
1. “Buck had a trick of love expression that was akin to hurt. He would often seize Thornton’s hand in his mouth
and close so fiercely that the flesh bore the impress of his teeth for some time afterward. And as Buck understood
the oaths to be love words, so the man understood this feigned bite for a caress.” (55)
2. “Faithfulness and devotion, things born of fire and roof, were his; yet he retained is wildness and wiliness.” (56)
3. “He must master or be mastered; while to show mercy was a weakness. Mercy did not exist in the primordial life.
It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death. Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was
the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time, he obeyed.” (56)
1. London describes Buck’s dreams of the primitive man: “The salient thing of this other world seemed fear.”
(68) What does he mean by this? Why would that be true? Why isn’t Thornton’s world filled with fear?
2. Why is Buck intent on befriending the wolf? What makes him break off their travels to return to camp? What
does this say about Buck’s place in the world?
3. What does Buck’s fight with the bear and the moose display about his embrace of the call? Why do you think
London included them in the story? What predictions can you make about Buck’s future?
4. What does Buck learn from his slaughter of the Yeehats? Does this make his answering of the call harder or
easier? Explain.
5. Does the book have a happy or sad ending? Explain your answer. What do you think London would say?
VOCABULARY
ramshackle (66): run-down
formidable (73): frightening; imposing
sequential (73): in order
simultaneous (73): at the same time
calamity (76): disaster
discomfited (80): ill at ease
muses (81): reflects, thinks
ACTIVITIES
3. Create a collage showing the conflict between the allure of the wild and Buck’s adoration for John Thornton.
5. In an essay, examine how Buck’s acts of violence change throughout the novel, from his fight with Spitz to
the killing of the Yeehats’ chief. How do the acts represent the changes that are happening to Buck throughout
the novel?
6. Create your own “song of the pack” based on what you know about Buck’s new wolf brothers.
QUOTATIONS
1. “John Thornton asked little of man or nature. He was unafraid of the wild. With a handful of salt and a
rifle he cold plunge into the wilderness and fare wherever he pleased and as long as he pleased.” (66)
2. “Like giants they toiled, days flashing on the heels of days like dreams as they heaped the treasure up.”
(66)
3. “[The call] filled him with a great unrest and strange desires. It caused him to feel a vague, sweet
gladness, and he was aware of wild yearnings and stirring for he knew not what.” (69)
4. “He knew he was at last answering the call, running by the side of his wood brother toward the place
from where the call surely came.” (71)
5. “He had killed man, the noblest game of all, and he had killed in the face of the law of club and fang.”
(78)
6. “The last tie was broken. Man and the claims of man no longer bound him.” (79)
AFTE
R READING THE NOVEL
QUESTIONS
1. Who is wild and who is civilized in the story? Explain your answer with specific examples.
2. Do you think Buck would be able to rejoin man at some point in his future? Explain.
3. Compare and contrast all of Buck’s masters. What did he learn from each? Which lesson or lessons were
most important to his survival? His happiness?
4. Critics write that London was heavily influenced by Darwin’s idea of survival of the fittest. Give examples
from the novel
to support this position.
ACTIVITIES
1. Research Jack London’s life, then research and compare it to that of contemporary author Gary Paulsen. How
are their
lives similar? Different? How is Gary Paulsen influenced by Jack London’s work?
2. Collect poetic lines from the novel to create your own poem entitled “The Call of the Wild.”
3. Write an alternative ending to the novel telling what would have happened if John Thornton had not died.
4. Look back at the epigraph (lines of poetry at the beginning of the novel). Write an essay explaining how the
epigraph
serves to highlight the themes and spirit of this novel. How does Buck’s journey reflect these words?
4. Write an essay comparing London’s tale with one or more works by Gary Paulsen.