Day 14 English 11

Writing Prompt: (5 minutes to finish!) Add quotes if you didn’t use them*** Write an analytical text explaining Krakauer’s feelings towards Chris McCandless.

Sentence Types More Practice!

Let’s Practice After the rain, we decided to go fishing and took our canoe to the lake. Simple

Hint* Check for AAAWWUUBBIS word (signal word: after, although, as, etc.) Check if there’s a subject and verb (After I go….) = clause! If there is NO subject or verb (After the rain= no verb) = phrase After the rain, we decided to go fishing and took our canoe to the lake. = Simple Sentence After I go running, I will eat brownies. = Complex Sentence

Let’s Practice We were able to catch enough fish for dinner, and then we went to bed in our makeshift tents. Compound

Let’s Practice Those clouds promise rain, so we hurried up and left before we got caught in a flash flood. Compound complex

Let’s Practice Since we had only gone a mile from camp, we decided to return before dark. complex

Scavenger hunt: mark these items in the author’s note! What are some genre conventions of the author’s note? –1st person –Directly addresses the reader –Explains the motivation and/or goals for writing the text –Gives background on the development of the text/the writer’s thinking –Makes the writer’s bias explicit Bracket and label these conventions in the margin.

Review Author’s Note: Important Points 1. Paragraphs 1-3: What kind of person do you think Christopher McCandless was? Use specific details to support your answer. 2. Paragraph 4: Why did Krakauer write Into the Wild? 3. Paragraphs 5-8: How does the general public feel about Krakauer?

Name other characters in literature who famously went “into the wild”?

Into the Wild: Chapter 1 (together) Into the Wild begins in medias res (in the middle of things). 1.Why might Krakauer begin the book in the middle of things rather than at the beginning chronologically? 2.Can you think of other books that begin this way?

Into the Wild: Chapter 1 3. Why does Chris change his name? 4. What does Jim Gallien (the truck driver) think of Chris at first? 5. What does Jim think of Chris later in their drive?

Chapter Two (SSR) 6. Who discovers Chris? 7. What does the autopsy discover? 8. Why does Krakauer include Chris’s note in the book? 9. Is there any irony in this chapter?

Into the Wild chapters 1-3 Read and annotate chapters; complete study guide questions.

Chapter Three 10. Where did “Alex” move to? 11. List a job Alex did for Wayne Westerberg. 12. What was Westerberg jailed for? 13. Where did Alex grow up? 14. Describe his family situation. 15. What did Alex do with $24,000? 16. Name the irony in this chapter.