Name:
Listening Guide – Touching Spirit Bear
Quote from the
Book
Anger is a memory
never forgotten
Type of Figurative
Language
Foreshadowing
What does the author want to
accomplish by using this figurative
language?
Using “never forgotten” gives me a hint
that Cole’s anger will return.
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Symbolism
Idiom
1
Page
#
Pg.
112
Listening Guide – Touching Spirit Bear
Life Lesson
Evidence
Perspective
Honesty
Respect
Trust
Vocabulary Work:
Choose two words from the list. Copy the sentence from the text. Write a definition for the word in your own
words using the context clues in the sentence. (defiantly pg. 3, torrents pg. 77, grudgingly pg. 15, haphazard
pg. 75, sparse pg. 14, revoked pg. 22, moseyed pg. 16, ignited pg. 22)
1. Word:
Sentence from the book:
Your Definition:
2. Word:
Sentence from the book:
Your Definition:
2
Listening Guide – Touching Spirit Bear
Quote:
Who is speaking to
whom?
Does this quote move
the action forward? Tell
us something about a
character? Provoke a
decision?
“Helping others will heal your
spirit.”
Rosey to Cole
Character
“Your father carried too much
baggage from his pastbaggage he never dealt with.”
Mrs. Matthews to
Cole
3
How does the quote do this
(from column 3)?