The Call of the Wild - Complete Bundle

Guided Notes

18 pages of guided notes - beautifully illustrated, yet extensive in analysis and detail and littered with textual evidence and graphic organizers. Kit also includes context clue practice for each chapter of Jack London’s The Call of the Wild. (answer key included)

Guided notes are most effective when used with the PowerPoint.

PowerPoint

307 slide presentation - sister product of the guided notes. More vibrant than the notes and includes extension activities. Virtually each lesson includes title slide, objective slide, lesson wrap-up slide, and SSR slide (to be used if finished early)

Please Note: That each PPT contains resources not included with this purchase; namely the Enrichment activities. If you're interested, these products are available in my store.

This product works most efficiently with the Guided Notes. This product is posted separately for those teachers who need to conserve printing/copies.

Assessment Kit

- Cold Read Assessment: single informational source text; 7 Part A/B questions and 1 constructed response (each standard aligned). Student answer sheet, TEPAC handouts, and answer key provided.

- Research Simulation Assessment: 3 informational sources; 7 Part A/B questions and 1 constructed response (each standard aligned). Student answer sheet, TEPAC handouts, and answer key provided.

Additional assessments provided

Writing Prompts

11 Literary Analysis writing prompts. Each prompt includes an outline. Two versions are provided to assist in differentiation. For your reference, color-coded sample essays have been provided. Kit also includes a TEPAC handout and rubric.

Pre-Reading Rotation

Students rotate to 5 stations to obtain background knowledge on information necessary to understand and appreciate the story, setting, author, etc.

Each station involves students reading information, then collaborating to discuss randomly selected higher order questions on each topic.

Bundle also includes the correlating PowerPoint with working timers and all necessary fonts.

Stations are as follows:

- Klondike and the Gold Rush

- Author study

- Anthropomorphism (ties into Nature Faker section of Guidebooks Curriculum)

- Nature vs. Nurture (connected to theme of Buck’s instincts awakening)

- Gretchen Rubin’s Four Tendencies (online resource connected to dominance & character traits)

Narrative Writing Lessons

Kit requires students to first read an article describing ideal character traits of each position on a mushing team and complete a rhetoric triangle on that information.

Students then work collaboratively in a relay race to describe character traits of dogs from the first 2 chapters while also backing up those claims with text evidence.

This week-long activity concludes with students using the PAINTERS strategy to complete a narrative writing activity in which they recount the introduction of Buck from the POV of a different character.

Kit includes:

Informational article + rhetoric triangle lesson

Character relay cards

PowerPoint with all necessary fonts

Creative writing handouts

Nature Faker – Perspective Focus

Students focus on sections of Jack London’s “Other Animals” in 3 separate lessons.

In one, students complete a rhetoric triangle to identify the claim and his approaches in developing it.

Students then analyze the author’s perspective through word choice by breaking up his essay into sections. This lesson requires students to work collaboratively and independently. PowerPoint provided to assist in seamless modeling of approaches and expectations.

Lastly, students evaluate the strength of his argument, backing up their analysis with sound reasoning and text evidence.

Thinking cards are provided to assist students in participating in meaningful collaborative discussions.

Nature Faker - Rotations

Students rotate to 4 stations (20 minutes each) to obtain background knowledge to begin developing an opinion regarding the claim that Jack London is a nature faker and if it is sound.

Stations have students perform the following analysis:

- Read an article breaking down the background on the Nature Faker controversy then taking a brief Part A/Part B format quiz.

-Revisit the first chapter of The Call of the Wild and identify/defend evidence that shows Buck using reasoning and showing human-like emotions

- Randomly select an excerpt from Roosevelt’s response to nature fakers and respond to a constructed response prompt.

- Refer to thinking cards and the text to determine and paraphrase the central idea of each paragraph of Jack London’s “Other animals” essay.

Poetry Lesson

Students work collaboratively to match six characters from Jack London’s The Call of the Wild to stanzas of a poem (NOTE: students’ responses are correct as long as they can back up their reasoning using sound logic).

4 of the stanzas are incomplete (some more than others). Students work together to develop lyrical connections to the character they selected for that stanza.

Lastly, students select text evidence to help back up their rationale for connecting each character with the selected stanza.

NOTE: I used this activity for a Compass Evaluation and received a Highly Effective rating as a result.

CSI: Alaska

This is a fun add-on activity to a unit of Jack London’s The Call of the Wild which provides students with practice in selecting text evidence and the rarely discussed standard involving passive and active voice.

In this lesson, students rotate to 4 stations (15 minutes each). Two stations have students review an excerpt from The Call of the Wild in order to complete paperwork mimicking crime scene evidence forms. A third station has students refer to that same excerpt in order to appropriately label a map of the crime scene. Lastly, students practice identifying examples of passive and active voice as well as differentiate between facts, opinions, and drawn conclusions.

To connect the entire lesson, students will then write a police report (narrative writing). In this report, students must use the proper voice and focus on provided text evidence to avoid opinions and conclusions.

Character Relationship Rotation

This lesson helps prepare students to construct a well-developed cumulative essay on The Call of the Wild while working in collaborative groups.

Each rotation requires students to characterize the relationship between Buck and one of his 5 owners. Students collaboratively discuss the characters and back up their claims by selecting effective text evidence (slips provided).

To conclude the activity, students revisit the unit’s essential questions to draw connections to events and characters from The Call of the Wild.

This lesson is also designed to allow students to work independently for one of the six rotations in order to read, catch up on class work, visit the library, conference with the teacher, etc.