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Reach Into ·Four Background Reach Into ·four Read Actively Background Set 4 Pi.rposefor When you read the stories of people's Re�di�q i1ioqr4pky lives, you often learn about the. chaUenges You will learn much more by setting a they faced to achieve their goals. Called purpose, or goal, for reading a biography. biographies when written by someone .In doing this, consider what you already other than the subject, these true-life sto­ know about the person and what you'd like ries can tell about challenges that are men­ to know. tal or physical. With a group, do one or This biography is about Susan Butcher, both of the following activities: a star of a famous Alaskan sled-dog race • Note the most difficult challenges called the lditarod (l DIT uh rod). Use the that people have to face. Without map and the photographs on the following using words, act out some of these pages to imagine some of the challenges challenges. she faces, Then set up a three-column • List the people whose biographies you KWL chart to guide your reading. In the would like to read. • WhatI Knowcolumn, list what you already know about Susan Butcher. In the What I Want to Knowcolumn, list what you hope to learn,, in the f,prmof questions. Fill in the WhatI Learnecfcolwmn as you read. .,. flesh, gi:en by tenants to their lords. as payment. Carmige has come to be used to describe the W�rds to Know Here is the complete list of Words . bloody slaughter of soldiers in a battle. to Know for "Susan Butcher": grueling prophecy prolonged SpellingStr ategy: Prophecy, a noun that means a congestion potential hallucinate "prediction," is commonly misspelled, as is the remote carnage capable verb prophesy, which means "to declare or predict incentive something." Point out the following strategy to use with words that are often misspelled: Say the word Vocabulary Strategy: The word carnage creates aloud, slowly and carefully. Then close your eyes in the reader's mind an unexpected and ghastly and visualize the word spelled correctly. impression of the lditarod. The term, which comes Teacher's Resources Follow up with the from feudal times, initially referred to the meat, or 1, nl\f I· Words to Know Practice Page. iF•120 120 Literary Forms: Biography or Susan Butcher, .it was a day like any other: brutally cold, winpy, apd snowing hard enough so that it w'as impossible to see more ' , than a few feet in front of the heavy four-wheel vehicleF her sled dogs were dragging for practice. In short, as far·•· as she was concerned, everything was perfect. • Then suddenly Butcher's lead dog went "gee" (right) when Butcher shouted "Haw!" (left). and the four-. wheeler, the dogs, and Butcher piunged off a twelve­ foot cliffand into a clump of alder trees. There was, of course, no path out. The trail Butcher and the· dogs had fallen from was little trav­ eled, and she figured it might be several days before somebody happened by. She had no saw and no ax. It was only supposed to be a little training run. With pli­ ers, a wrench, and a broken screwdriv�f; she chopped at the alders. She got the dogs working together, and they pulled the four-wheeler up the hill. Sometimes they'd make as little as twelve inches of progress before Butcher would have to begin hacking away with her pliers and wrench again, but five hom,s after· they'_d fallen, Butcher and her dogs wen: on the road back to Butcher had learned' not to leave home, ,; ii! ,t Susan Butcher 121 selves. In a funny way, Butcher's preparation for the lditarod began before the race ever existed. When she finally entered it for the first time in 1978, Butcher must have felt like she'd finally discovered where she belonged. As a little girl growing up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Susan Butchernot only knew where she did belong. She hated the congestion of the busy streets, the constant noise of the traffic, and the even for practice, without all her tools. pollution all around her. She And she hoped her lead dog had learned begged her parents to move to that "Haw!" meant "Haw!'; the country, or at least to let her live in a On that day when . she and her team tent in the backyard. Her best fri�r1d1;L· fell off the trail, Susan Butcher was train­ were the dogs she kept. In first grade she "01 :· ' ' } ~If and her qogs for the Iditaroo, 1 wrote an essay entitled "I Hate Cities." ·u'al ' , race that c6yers the That was the first, last, and only sentence · i' n Arichor ~, . $;" ld, ip the paper. t Whens some of the tale_s of her )i:aming runs are settled in a town ca led Eureka, which no less dramatic·tha:h the races them- you will not find on many maps. There I. Iditarod (I OIT uh rod) she cobbled together four one-room cab­ ins, a doorless outhouse, and 120 dog- 5 houses. Butcher's dogs have outnum- bered the two-legged citizens of 3 adj.: Eureka by as many as · , ----� .. ' grueling (GROO ling) Verytiring; exhausting 150 to 13. congestion (kuhn JESadj.: chuhn} n.: Crowds; traffic remote (ruh MOHT) Isolated; removed; far from people . :·.122 122 Literary Forms: Biography Eureka is a fine place to prepare for mushers runalong behind them or kick the Iditarod, since a chief feature of both with first one numb foot, then the other. is isolation. A pitcher who's gone to a full When the teams are traveling downhill, count on the batter with the bases loaded the mushers hold on for their lives and in the ninth inning of a tie game might pray that the wind won't freeze their eyes feel lonely. A marathoner who has run shut or tear the sled from their hands, beyond whatever certainty her training leaving them without even the company can provide and still has miles to go of their dogs. For as long as they can might feel that way, too. But the Idit_arod stand it, they swerve over frozen rivers, exists primc\rily as a tribute to the navigate through the stumps of burned­ conviction2 that everybody ought to be over forests by the insanely inadequate able to take care of himself or herself with glow of a single small headlight, and hope the help of a dozen or so dogs, and there they won't suddenly crash headlong into is perhaps no loneliness like the loneli­ a bear or a moose or the dog team of ness of someone lost and snow-blind in some poor fool who has become com­ the middle of Alaska. pletely confused and started racing back­ A very fast and disciplined dog team ward on the trail. with an experienced and fortunate mush­ All these obstacles appeal to Susan er can complete the race in a little over Butcher, who's felt since early childhood 7I eleven days. Some competitors take as that taking heat, light, and shelter for I long as three weeks, and a lot of starters, granted was missing the point. Only .as high '1� 30 or 4? percent some years, when she has felt close to ·1 · ,s ·ke spend Susan Butcher 123 only from a great distance. He called the race the Iditarod after an 7 Alaskan ghost town bearing the 9 name, which is an old Indian word meaning distant place. As an incentive to take up this J crazy challenge, Redington offered $50,000 to the winner of the first Iditarod, though when the race started he didn't have the money. Twenty days later, when that first race ended, Joe had the dough. He'd hustled it from various indi- 1 10 vidual and corporate3 donors. But _J over the years the payoff for win­ ning the Iditarod continued to be a little on the shaky side. Winners have sometimes had to settle for their prizes in installments, unlike all the professional baseball, bas­ ketball, and football players who are secure in their guaranteed contracts. Joe Redington first met Susan Butcher a fewyears after he'd come 7 up with the Iditarod, and right 11 away he was sure she'd win it one day. Or he was almost sure. He proposed a sled dog trek to the J summit of Alaska's Denali, also known as Mount McKinley, per­ she has feltchallenged has she felt entire­ haps partly to test the mettle4 of this ly alive. remarkable young woman who'd come to Joe Redington invented the Iditarod the far north in search of escape from cars, in 1973. He'd always loved the wilder­ buildings, and too many people. Together ness, particularly the Alaskan wilderness, with seven dogs and a sled, Butcher and and he was worried- that what he loved Redington made the 20,320-foot climb was falling into the hands of snow­ through hundred-mile-an-hour winds and mobilers and settlers with satellite dishes. over 2,000-foot-deep crevasses. 5 It took He scratched his head and wondered how to remind everybody of the toughness and 3. corporate (KOR puh rit) adj.: Business. independence that Alaska had always 4. mettle (MET I) n.: Spirit or courage. demanded of its residents, and he came 5. crevasses (kruh VAS is) n.: Deep narrow openings caused by a crack or split. up with a race that would require sled drivers andtheir dogs to brave screaming winds, blinding blizzards, hunger, lack of Words to KJ-tow sleep, and a dozen other hardships that incentive (in SEN tiv) n.: Something that most athletes would just as soon consider makes a person want or try •124 124 Literary Forms: Biography them forty-four days.
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