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JOURNALS

 

On Mondays, all 8th graders hand in their journals. I go over them to make sure they are continuing to read and write in them. Each Monday students have a possibility of ten points for handing in their journal(most receive 10/10 every week). This is 10 percent of their grade. Every few weeks I also estimate if they are going to make the goal of 1,400 pages a quarter, and put in a participation grade, which is worth 40 percent of their grade. This is to help students stay on track and not to think they can read 600 pages the weekend before the end of the quarter.

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Tenative Schedule  2011-2012

White Fang

Comprehension-Please write all answers legibly in the comprehension section of your journal. Please put a title, chapter, and number the questions correctly.

Chapters 1-3

 

1. What was in the box?

2. Where does this story take place?

3. What animals were following Bill and Henry?

4. What happened to "Fatty"?

5. What other dog disappeared?

6. To what did Bill compare the wolves?

a. Sharks

b. Thieves

c. Men

d. Women 24

7. How did the she-wolf fool One Ear?

a. Crouched low and hid in the bushes

b. Snatched the rabbit before One Ear could get it

c. Pretended to be playful then turned against him

d. Walked in the sled tracks

8. What happened when Bill tried to save One Ear?

a. Bill barely managed to save One Ear.

b. One Ear turned on him.

c. Both Bill and One Ear were eaten.

d. One Ear saved them both.

9. Why were the nights a terror?

a. The wolves were becoming bolder and coming closer.

b. Henry worried about the wolves and the Indians.

c. Henry had no fire and was afraid of freezing to death.

d. There were many strange sounds in the wilderness.

10. How did Henry spend his days?

a. Caring for Bill

b. Looking for food

c. Fighting wolves

d. Gathering firewood

11. How was Henry saved?

a. He reached a village.

b. Men with sleds happened to find him.

c. The wolves mysteriously disappeared.

d. The wolves gave up and went elsewhere to find food.

 

Chapters 4-7

 

1.       For what was the wolf pack hunting?

 

2. Over what were One Eye and the three year old fighting?

a. The right to lead the pack

b. The sack that fell off of the sled

c. Meat

d. The she-wolf

3. For what was the she-wolf searching?

a. Food

b. A place to have her pups

c. One-Eye

d. Water

4. Why did the she-wolf growl at One Eye?

a. He had come too close to her and the pups

b. He had tried to take more than his share of the meat

c. It was a growl of affection

d. She wanted him to go find food

5. Why didn't One Eye just eat the ptarmigan?

a. The bird got away

b. He remember he had a family to feed

c. He had grown to like the little bird

d. He was curious about it

6. How was one pup different from all the rest?

a. It was a runt

b. It was huge

c. It was spotted

d. It looked like its father

7. What confused the gray pup?

a. The white wall

b. The floor

c. The snow

d. The lynx

8. What happened to One Eye?

a. The she-wolf got mad and killed him.

b. The lynx killed him.

c. He went away as was the custom of the male wolves.

d. Hunters killed him.

9. What made the lynx especially vicious?

10. What did the gray cub find when he fell through the pine trunk?

11. How did the gray cub discover that he was carnivorous?

12. What about the water surprised the gray cub?

13. What happened to the mother weasel?

Chapters 8-11

1. What did the gray cub do to the young weasel?

a. Played with it

b. Wounded it and watched it run off

c. Took it for his mother to look at it

d. Killed and ate it

2. What did the she-wolf give the gray cub to eat?

3.Why did the lynx fight with the she-wolf? Who won?

4. What did the gray cub see on the way to the stream?

a. Mother lynx

b. The carcass of his dead father

c. Indians

d. His mother

5. Who is Kiche?

a. The she-wolf

b. The Indian who used to own the she-wolf

c. The gray cub's brother

d. The she-wolf's new owner

6. How did White Fang differentiate man from beast?

a. Man walked on his hind legs.

b. Man had fire.

c. Man smelled different.

d. Man fought with clubs and guns.

7. Why did the Indians laugh at White Fang?

8. Identify Lip-lip.

9. Why wouldn't Kiche go into the forest?

10. What happened to White Fang when he followed his mother?

11. What was the "crime of crimes"?

12. What fighting technique did White Fang successfully use?

13. Describe White Fang at this point in the story.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chapters 12-15

1.       How did White Fang get away from the Indians?

 

2. Identify Mit-sah.

a. White Fang's new owner

b. Another dog in the Indian camp

c. Gray Beaver's son

d. Gray Beaver's wife

3. Why did White Fang return to Gray Beaver?

a. Gray Beaver came after him and forced him to return.

b. Life with man was much easier than life in the wild.

c. He couldn't find his mother.

d. He was wounded.

4.How did Gray Beaver react to White Fang's return?

5. Why did Mit-sah put Lip-lip at the head of the sled team?

a. Lip-Lip was the best sled dog.

b. He was using the dogs' natural animosity.

c. That's the only place Lip-lip would accept.

d. Lip-lip had earned it.

6. Why was White Fang afraid of hands?

a. They looked strange.

b. They were always moving.

c. They often held clubs and whips.

d. He didn't understand them.

7. Why did White Fang bite the boy?

a. The boy cornered him.

b. The boy beat him.

c. He was afraid of the boy's hands.

d. He wanted the boy's meat.

8. Why did White Fang defend Mit-sah?

9. Over what did Baseek and White Fang fight?

a. Mit-sah

b. Moose meat

c. Gray Beaver

d. Territorial position

10. Why did Kiche slash White Fang's face?

a. She was trying to teach him a lesson.

b. It was an accident.

c. She didn't recognize him.

d. She wanted him to return to Gray Beaver.

11. Why did White Fang leave the Indian camp for a while?

a. To look for food

b. To look for his mother again

c. To look for Gray Beaver

d. To look for Mit-sah

 

12. What did White Fang get when he returned to the village?

a. A beating

b. A new master

c. A whole fish

d. A piece of tallow

13. What was the difference between White Fang and the other dogs?

a. White Fang was more timid

b. White Fang was older

c. The other dogs were domesticated

d. The other dogs were wiser

 

Chapters 16-19

1.       Who was Beauty Smith?

 

2.        . What did White Fang think of Beauty Smith?

a. White Fang admired him.

b. White Fang feared him.

c. White Fang hated him.

d. White Fang loved him.

3.       Why did Gray Beaver sell White Fang

 

4. What happened to White Fang when he returned to Gray Beaver?

a. He found Gray Beaver was gone.

b. Gray Beaver took him back to Beauty Smith.

c. Gray Beaver beat him severely.

d. Kloo-kooch gave him a hearty meal.

5. For what did Beauty Smith use White Fang?

a. Sled dog

b. Pet

c. Work dog

d. Fighting dog

6.       Why did White Fang always win his fights?

 

7. Identify Cherokee.

a. A bulldog brought to fight White Fang

b. An Indian dog brought to fight White Fang

c. He brought a bull dog to fight White Fang

d. Beauty Smith's friend

8. How was Cherokee different from the other dogs White Fang had fought?

a. He was a more experienced fighter and had more spirit.

b. He was born wild.

c. He was bigger.

d. He was short and soft and had short hair.

 

 

 

 

9. When he knew the fight was lost, what did Beauty Smith do to White Fang?

a. He shot him.

b. He kicked him.

c. He quickly sold him.

d. He pulled him out of the fighting area, paid his debts and left.

10. Who saved White Fang?

a. Cherokee

b. Matt

c. Weedon Scott

d. Major

11. Why did White Fang kill Major?

a. Major tried to take his meat.

b. Major was his opponent.

c. Major attacked him.

d. White Fang was in a killing frenzy after the fight.

12. Why did White Fang bite Matt?

a. Matt tried to take his meat.

b. Matt kicked him for killing Major.

c. Matt cornered him.

d. Matt was shooting at him.

13. Why didn't Matt kill White Fang?

a. He missed; White Fang got away.

b. He was out of ammunition.

c. He realized White Fang was too smart to kill.

d. He didn't have the nerve. 34

Chapters 20-22

1.       How did Weedon win White Fang's confidence?

2.       Why was Weedon Scott able to transform White Fang into a pet?

3.        What did White Fang do when Weedon Scott left in the spring?

a. He went to look for his master.

b. He would not eat and became sick.

c. He carried on "as usual.”

d. He ran away back to the wild.

4. What was so important about White Fang's snuggling?

 

5. Who tried to steal White Fang?

a. Beauty Smith

b. Matt

c. Weedon Scott

d. Cherokee

6. Why did Weedon Scott decide to take White Fang with him?

a. He needed a guard dog.

b. He needed a sled dog.

c. He realized White Fang would die without him.

d. He wanted to take White Fang as a present to his father.

7.       How did White Fang feel about the city?

 

8. Why wouldn't White Fang fight the Collie?

a. His fighting days were over.

b. He didn't want to kill the Judge's dog.

c. He was afraid of her.

d. His instincts would not let him fight a female.

9. Identify Dick.

a. Judge Scott's deerhound

b. Judge Scott's servant

c. Judge Scott's gardener

d. Weedon Scott's friend

 

 

Chapter 23-25

1. How did Weedon win White Fang's confidence?

a. He left him alone for several months, only feeding him.

b. He made White Fang feel useful by giving him jobs.

c. He saved White Fang's life.

d. He spoke softly to White Fang and gave him good meat.

2.How did the Collie treat White Fang

 

1.       What did White Fang do to the groom?

 

4. What did Judge Scott have to do when White Fang didn't eat any chickens?

a. He had to repeatedly say, "White Fang you are smarter than I thought.”

b. He had to buy White Fang a new kennel.

c. He had to let White Fang live inside the house.

d. He had to apologize to Weedon.

5. Why did White Fang kill the dogs at the crossroads?

6. Why did White Fang leave the injured Weedon Scott in the woods?

7. Why didn't White Fang go riding in the woods with his master in the fall?

8. Identify Jim Hall.

a. He was a friend of the judge.

b. He tried to kill the judge.

c. He was White Fang's new master.

d. He was Beauty Smith's friend.

9. Why was Jim Hall angry with Judge Scott?

10. Who saved Judge Scott and at what cost?

11. What name did the women give White Fang?

12. What happened to White Fang?