November 10, 2008

Agenda:1. Understanding the Klondike

Gold Rush through Primary Sources

2. Analysis Exit Slip

Homework:1. Read Chapter 3: “The

Dominant Primordial Beast” pg. 27-43 plus 3-2-1 Notes

2. Chapter 3-4 Vocab due Wednesday

Inferences

When studying any type of data or material, you make sense of it through inferences.

Infer: The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

Klondike Gold Rush

Klondike Gold Rush

Klondike Gold Rush

Klondike Gold Rush

Klondike Gold Rush

Klondike Gold Rush

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, October 13, 1897.

• What can you infer from this article, the songs and the photographs about the Klondike Gold Rush?

• What type of person would head to the Klondike?

• What might their motivation be (besides to strike it rich?)

• How does this translate to Buck?

Respond in a clearly written paragraph(s). This is your ticket out the door today!

November 12, 2008

Agenda: Please grab your writer’s notebook

1. Quickwrite: “The Dominant Primordial Beast” and Chapter 3 Review

2. Some words from the Dog Whisperer: Dominance in the Dog World

3. Chapter 3-4 Vocabulary

Homework:1. Read Chapter 4: “He Who Has Won

to Mastership” pg. 44-54 plus 3-2-1 Notes

2. Chapter 3-4 Reading Check Friday (plus vocab)

3. Bring me a picture of your dog! (or bird, or fish, etc)

Quickwrite: Dominance

“The dominant primordial beast was strong in Buck, and under the fierce conditions of trail life it grew and grew. Yet it was a secret growth. His newborn cunning gave him poise and control” (27).

How do we see this played out in Buck? What events demonstrate this? What does London mean by the “dominant primordial beast?”

November 13, 2008

Agenda:1. Test your Knowledge: Reading

Check Review for Chapter 42. Chapter 3-4 Vocabulary

Homework:1. Study for Chapter 3-4 Reading

Check Friday (plus vocab)2. First Trimester Reading Log due

next Friday

Test Your Knowledge: Chapter 4

• What does Buck want after Spitz dies?

• Buck’s team is sold by Perrault and François. What is the team’s new job?

• What does Dave refuse to do?• What happens to Dave at the end of

the chapter?

November 14, 2008

Agenda:1. Chapter 3-4 Reading Check today!2. Correct Reading Check

Homework:1. First Trimester Reading Log due

next Friday