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- To improve your critical reading abilities, an important lesson you need to learn is that stories are less about what happens and more about who they happen to. The reason we can become so interested in fictional characters is because they arent completely fictional. For a reader wrapped up in a story, they represent real people (sometimes ourselves) facing real problems in the real world. And this is exactly how you should try to experience them as you read. - Just like real human beings, characters are dealt a certain hand in life. Some hands are good ones, others arent. How characters play out their hands determine their fate. It is the experience of that fate, as strongly as we can feel it, that we follow as we read. - Every main character is challenged in some way. One way of looking at this challenge is to see it as a situation in which a characters abilities and experiences are inefficient to solve the problem at hand. - It is by engaging in these challenges, overcoming some, succumbing to others, that the characters develop; they change as a result of what happened to them as they try to solve their problems and reach their goals. And it is this change, or act of changes, that often holds the key to unlocking a storys meaning. - As you continue to read The Call of the Wild, is is important to document the changes that the main character, Buck goes through. Use the graphic organizer to keep track of how the author provides a window into Bucks world and his evolution as a character.

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Define the following vocabulary words: Page 14 vicarious Page 15 antagonist, swart, grooms Page 16 draught animal, repoof, ere, despatches, comradely, appeasingly, scored, flank Page 17 diabolically, incarnation, belligerent, peculiarity, indiscretion, consternation, ignominiously Page 18 especial, disconsolate, unmolested, forlorn, placatingly, trice, roused Page 19 hailed, wrought Page 20 retarded, toil of the traces, trouncing, Scales Page 21 routed, indispensable, ravenous, perpetual, fastidiousness, dainty Page 22 malingerer, blunderer, misdeed Page 23 retrogression, callous, conspicuous

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1. Create a three-column chart. Title the left side Savage Laws. Title the middle column Lessons Learned and the right column you will title Modern Society. In the three-column chart, you are analyzing the cause-effect relationships of the law of club and fang and Bucks reactions/lessons learned. Provide your thoughts and support your thoughts with specific textual evidence on the savage laws that dominate the men and animals in chapter 2 and the effect on Buck. Then, think of the savage laws and compare them to modern society. Using the following quote, So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you. Well, he would see to it that he never went down. Spitz ran out his tongue and laughed again, and from that moment, Buck hated him with a bitter and deathless hatred. What makes this a moment of decision for Buck? Explain in extended response format. Read the following quote: One devil, dat Spitz, remarked Perrault. Some dam day heem keel that Buck. Dat Buck two devils, was Francois rejoinder. All de tam I watch data Buck I know for sure. Lissen: some dam finde day heem get mad lak hell an den heem chew dat Spitz all up an spit heem out on de snow. Sure. I know. What might this conversation foreshadow about Chapter 3? Explain in extended response formatting.

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3. 4. 5. 6. Jack London contrasts two settings in the previous two chapters: Judge Millers estate in California and the Yukon Wilderness. By the end of Chapter Two, how do you think London wants you to feel about each setting? Explain in extended response formatting. Describe why Bucks first day on Dyea beach was like a nightmare. Extended Response Why is Buck shocked when Francois fastens straps and buckles on him? Extended Response What proof is there that Buck was an intelligent dog? Extended Response Why was Bucks ability to steal food viewed by the author in a positive light? Extended Response What is the most important lesson Buck has learned so far in the novel? Extended Response How is Billee alike and different from Joe? Extended Response

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Draw a picture of Perrault and Franzois dog sled team. Make sure to label each dog and provide as much visual detail that was given in the text so that your picture represents an accurate account of how Jack London described each dog.