Saddleback Educational Publishing Saddleback Educational STUDY GUIDE STUDY GUIDE The Timeless Classics Study Guides provide a wealth of reproducible support materials to help students extend the learning experience. STUDY GUIDE - wh Features include critical background notes on both the author and the times, character descriptions, chapter summaries, and eight “universal” exercises—focusing on plot, theme, character, vocabulary, important literary terms, I and book report structure. TE f a n G ISBN-13: 978-1-61651-158-6 ISBN-10: 1-61651-158-3 | Contents | Notes to the Teacher . 4 16 Character Study, Ch . 9 . 29 Facts About the Author . 5 17 Words and Meanings, Ch . 9 . 30 Facts About the Times . 5 18 Words and Meanings, Ch . 10 . 31 Facts About the Characters . 6 19 Inference, Ch . 10 . 32 Chapter Summaries . 7 20 Words and Meanings, Ch . 11 . 33 Answer Key . 9 21 Words and Meanings, Ch . 12 . 34 Literary Glossary . 12 22 Comprehension Check, Ch . 12 . 35 23 Words and Meanings, Ch . 13 . 36 CHAPTER EXERCISES 24 Mystery Words, Ch . 13 . 37 1 Words and Meanings, Ch . 1 . 14 2 Comprehension Check, Ch . 1 . 15 END-OF-BOOK EXERCISES 3 Words and Meanings, Ch . 2 . 16 25 Book Sequence . 38 4 Cause and Effect, Ch . 2 . 17 26 Final Exam, Part 1 . 39 5 Words and Meanings, Ch . 3 . 18 26 Final Exam, Part 2 . 40 6 Recalling Details, Ch . 3 . 19 7 Words and Meanings, Ch . 4 . 20 UNIVERSAL EXERCISES 8 Main Ideas, Ch . 4 . 21 27 Beyond the Text . 41 9 Words and Meanings, Ch . 5 . 22 28 Plot Study . 42 10 Comprehension Check, Ch . 5 . 23 29 Theme Analysis . 43 11 Words and Meanings, Ch . 6 . 24 30 Character Study . 44 12 Sequence of Events, Ch . 6 . .25 31 Vocabulary Study . 45 13 Words and Meanings, Ch . 7 . 26 32 Glossary Study . 46 14 Drawing Conclusions, Ch . 7 . 27 33 Book Review, Part 1 . 47 15 Words and Meanings, Ch . 8 . 28 33 Book Review, Part 2 . 48 TIMELESS CLASSICS NOTES TO THE TEACHER THE NOVELS Timeless Classics were expressly designed to Research shows that the most effective way help struggling readers gain access to some of to improve comprehension is to teach students the world’s greatest literature . While retaining strategies .The foundation of any comprehension the essence and stylistic “flavor” of the original, strategy requires knowledge of the skills found each novel has been expertly adapted to a in these activities including: main idea, noting reading level that never exceeds grade 4 0. details, drawing conclusions, finding the A n ideal introduction to later investigations sequence, cause and effect, making inferences, of the original works, Timeless Classics and more .A two-page final exam is also included utilize a number of strategies to ensure the in every Timeless Classics Study Guide . involvement of struggling readers: airy, uncomplicated page design; shortened USING THE STUDY GUIDES sentences; easy-reading type style; elimination Before assigning any of the reproducible of archaic words and spellings; shortened total exercises, be sure your students each have a book length; and handsome illustrations . personal copy of the Glossary and the Facts About the Author and About the Times. By To further engage struggling readers, some organizing the reading process in this way, you of our Timeless Classics titles are available in a will be able to set a purpose for reading and new and exciting graphic format, which can activate prior knowledge . The Facts About the bridge literacies and build complex reading Author and About the Times lend themselves skills—a perfect opportunity for differentiation . to any number of writing or research projects THE STUDY GUIDES you may wish to assign . To further preview the novel, you may wish to review the Facts About The Timeless Classics Study Guides provide the Characters. Students will also need to be a wealth of reproducible support materials to help familiar with many of the literary terms in order students extend the learning experience .Features to complete the worksheets . include critical background notes on both the author and the times, character descriptions, T he title-specific exercises may be used chapter summaries, and eight “universal” as a springboard for class discussions and exercises that may be used for any Timeless role-playing . Alternatively, you may wish to Classic or Saddleback Illustrated Classic . assign some exercises as homework and others during the closing minutes of a class period . In addition to the universal exercises, 26 title-specific activities are included to review, A ll exercises in this Guide are designed to test, or enrich the student’s grasp of important accommodate independent study as well as vocabulary and concepts . These reproducible group work .The occasional assignment of study worksheets are designed to be used chapter-by- partners or competitive teams often enhances chapter as the student’s reading of the novel interest and promotes creativity . Oral language proceeds . At least two exercises are provided activities, such as paraphrasing or summarizing for each book chapter . One of the two always a part of the story, provide an intervention focuses on key vocabulary . The other may be opportunity to strengthen oral language skills a simple comprehension check or present an and, in turn, strengthen reading skills . important literary concept . 4 white FANG FACTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR JACK LONDON (1876–1916) EARLY LIFE age of 24, he began his career as a Born in 1876, Jack London was raised serious writer . in dire poverty in the slums of Oakland, London’s literary interest included California . As a boy of 10, he sold science fiction and serious novels newspapers on the streets before going about the plight of the underprivileged . to school each day . While still a teenager, Although he wrote for only 16 years, he he worked as an oyster pirate, a cannery produced an impressive body of work: laborer, and a salmon fisherman . 19 novels, 18 books of essays and short stories, and numerous other books . PROFESSIONAL CAREER Before he was 20, he joined the gold OTHER WORKS rush to Alaska . His stepsister loaned him His most popular works, however, are $1,500 for his trip to the Klondike . The The Call of the Wild and White Fang, only “gold” he found there, however, which have been translated into 30 was the rich and colorful material he languages and are still popular all over used in his wonderful adventure stories . the world . While still very young, Jack London was making a name for himself as a LATER LIFE reporter for the Hearst newspaper chain . Troubled all of his life by ill health But, like all of his other jobs, this one and financial problems, Jack London didn’t last long . Early in 1900, at the died at the age of 40 in 1916 . FACTS ABOUT THE TIMES i n 1876, when Jack London was born... powered airplane, and the first car trip Alexander Graham Bell invented the across the United States was made in telephone, Mark Twain’s The Adventures 65 days . of Tom Sawyer had been out for a in 1916, when Jack London died... year, and the first American zoo was Jazz was sweeping the United States, established in Philadelphia . the Battle of Verdun was fought in in 1903, when White Fang was World War I, Pancho Villa invaded published... Columbus, New Mexico, and the first Rose Bowl football game was held . Work began on the Panama Canal, Orville and Wilbur Wright flew the first 5 W F HITE ANG FACTS ABOUT THE CHARACTERS BILL and HENRY LIP-LIP two weary men are trying to make a big sled-dog puppy who constantly their way across Alaska by dogsled . As torments White Fang . He finally they travel, their dogs are eaten, one by becomes White Fang’s victim when one, by a starving pack of wolves who they are both out in the wild eventually eat the men as well THREE EAGLES KICHE the Indian who takes Kiche from a part-dog “she-wolf” lures away Bill Gray Beaver as partial payment of and Henry’s sled dogs . She returns from a debt the wild to Gray Beaver, an Indian, and is then passed on to a man named Three MIT-SAH Eagles . Along the way, the she-wolf Gray Beaver’s son, he recognizes gives birth to White Fang Lip-Lip’s bullying ways and teaches him a lesson ONE EYE Kiche’s mate and the father of White BASEEK Fang, he is eventually killed and eaten the first sled dog that White Fang by a lynx successfully challenges WHITE FANG BEAUTY SMITH Kiche’s gray cub, his first master is a harsh and brutal man who takes Gray Beaver, followed by a cruel man ownership of White Fang by giving named Beauty Smith, and finally by whisky to Gray Beaver, he makes a Weedon Scott . His many hardships in good deal of money by betting on White the wild, followed by his adaptation to Fang in dogfights civilization, form the central storyline of the book TIM KEENAN the owner of Cherokee, a fighting GRAY BEAVER bulldog an Indian who teaches White Fang his first lessons about the ways of man . WEEDON SCOTT He eventually trades White Fang for a a mining engineer, he forcibly buys supply of whisky White Fang from Beauty Smith and returns to his family home in California with the half-wild wolf-dog 6 MATT COLLIE Weedon Scott’s assistant, he begins a sheepdog on the Scott estate, she taming White Fang by gently offering becomes White Fang’s mate and bears a him meat litter of puppies JUDGE SCOTT JIM HALL Weedon’s father, he is the owner of an escaped convict sentenced to 50 Sierra Vista, an estate in the Santa Clara years in prison by Judge Scott, he is killed Valley by White Fang when he comes to Sierra Vista, seeking revenge on the judge W F HITE ANG CHAPTER SUMMARIES CHAPTER 1 Two hungry men named Bill and next day .