Monday/Tuesday “To Build a Fire” Standards: Reading 3.2 Narra8ve Analysis of Grade-­‐Level-­‐Appropriate Text: Analyze the way in which theme or meaning of a selec8on represents a view or comment on life, using textual evidence to support the claim. Reading 1.1 Vocabulary and Concept Development: Trace the etymology of significant terms used in poli8cal science and history. Reading 3.2 Narra8ve Analysis of Grade-­‐Level-­‐Appropriate Text: Analyze the way in which theme or meaning of a selec8on represent DO NOW: •  Basic (Training Wheels) Define Conflict and give an example from a story you’ve read. •  Proficient (Motorcycle) What do you think is the difference between internal and external conflict? •  Advanced (Evel Knievel) Predict what conflict might occur in the story, “To Build a Fire” Do Now Discussion/Notes Sec 4 •  Conflict – the struggle between two opposing forces •  Internal – occurring within the mind of the character •  External – occurring between a character and society, nature, another person, God, or fate. •  Predic8ons for reading? Objec8ve Know and Be Able to Do: By the end of this lesson, you will know about writer Jack London and be able to respond, summarize, analyze, synthesize, and evaluate his short story, “To Build a Fire.” Connec8on to Prior Learning We are learning about the Realism movement in American Literature, which took place from 1850 to 1914. This short story is under the umbrella of Realism and is called Naturalism. REALISM NATURALISM NATURALISM vs Realism •  Naturalist writers aren't interested in individuality the way the realists are. They don't think it's the individual's place to change the world, and whatever moral struggle s/he goes through may not mager. Naturalism's central belief, in fact, is that individual human beings are at the mercy of uncontrollable larger forces that originate both within (internal conflict) and outside them (external conflict). Comprehension Check •  What is internal conflict? •  What is external conflict? Relevance & Interest •  Jack London prac8ced what he preached, instead of imagining other lives, he went out and lived them. •  He actually went to the Alaskan Yukon to search for gold in 1897.Gold Rush 5mins •  Finally, this short story will help strengthen your skills of analysis (breaking the story down) and synthesis (connec8ng to prior knowledge). Notes (Sec8on 4) Jack London Video Clip •  Jack London Bio Listen and Watch this 5 minute clip of Jack London. While you’re watching, take 4 bullet points of notes on his life. I’ll randomly call on students aler the clip and ask you what notes you took. Lesson Objec8ve Check • Do you will know about writer Jack London? • What are some things you learned today? Jack London pg 606 •  Lived 1876 – 1916 •  Jack London had endured more hardships by the age of twenty-­‐one than most people experience in a life8me. •  His struggles gave him sympathy for the working class and a las8ng dislike of drudgery. Guess who’s back? Vocab’s back! • drudg·∙er·∙y Noun •  Hard, menial, or dull work. •  Synonyms •  toil -­‐ slavery -­‐ hackwork Use Drudgery in a Sentence •  The con8nuing quest to escape the drudgery of every day life. •  Rapidly 8ring of office drudgery, he leaped at the chance to head the publishing firm which was founded in 1809. Pg 607 Vocab’s Back! 1.  Conjectural (adjec8ve) based on guesswork Its exact locality, though somewhat conjectural, was somewhere at the mouth of the river. UNWONTED pg 609 defini8on (adjec8ve) unusual, unfamiliar That made, that made it ques8on eagerly every unwonted movement of the man as if expec8ng him to go into camp or to seek shelter somewhere to build a fire. (pg 610 sentence) Conflagra8on (noun) •  big, destruc8ve fire The moccasin strings were like rods of steel all twisted and knoged as by some conflagra8on. Peremptorily (adjec8ve) •  decisively; commandingly When he spoke peremptorily, with the sound of whiplashes in his voice, the dog rendered its customary allegiance and came to him. (pg 619) Context = Top Bun Map of Alaska and the Yukon “To Build a Fire” Read Aloud pg 609 Quote =s Burger “Day had broken cold and gray…There was no sun nor hint of sun…The Yukon lay a mile wide and hidden under three feet of ice. On top of this ice was as many feet of snow. North and South, as far as he could see, it was unbroken white…Undoubtedly it was colder than fily degrees below zero…” Conjecture what might happen to a person who sets out on a day-­‐long journey on foot. Film Clip first 5 minutes •  hgp://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=RBB06RLmCcU •  Together read the first page and answer ques8ons #1 – 5 in groups pg 609 (you must have at least 4 quotes in these ques8ons for credit) •  Discuss Pg 610 • Read on your own • Fill in ques8ons # 6 – 8 on your own • Discuss as a class Pg 610 Start reading together “At the man’s heels troged a dog, a big na8ve husky, the proper wolf dog, gray coated and without visible or temperamental difference from its brother.” Complete 9 -­‐ 14 Ins8nct vs Knowledge • Who represents ins8nct in the story? • Who represents knowledge? • What can you infer that London is trying to say through these symbolic characters? Pg 613 Bogom #15 Ques8on “The man did not know cold. Possibly all the genera8ons of his ancestry had been ignorant of cold, of real cold, of cold one hundred and seven degrees below freezing point. 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.” Pg 615 middle#17 “Well, here he was; he had the accident; he was alone; and he had saved himself. Those old 8mers were rather womanish, some of them, he thought. All a man had to do was was keep his head, and he was all right. Any man who was a man could travel alone” “To Build a Fire” #’s 18 – 21 Work with your partner #22 – 25 Together (pages 619 – 622) Objec8ve Check •  You will be able to respond, summarize, analyze, synthesize, and evaluate his short story, “To Build a Fire.” •  Pair/Share Tell the person next to you 2 things you have learned today, then the groups report out. •  Study Vocabulary for next class.