1. “Friend Dog” and “The Old Dog’s Song” In which poem are rhyming words a more important element? Who do you think is the speaker in the first poem? How do you know? Who do you think is the speaker in the second poem? How do you know? How do you think these two poets feel about dogs? Explain your answer.

2. Question of the Day Day 1: I can be a hot cereal or a loud, sharp command, what am I? Day 2: How was Balto’s dogsled team like an Olympic track team? Day 3: What three types of modern communications would you use to solve the communication problem between the sled-dog team drivers?

3. Question of the Day Day 4: How can you predict what will happen this afternoon? Day 5: In which direction would you travel for warmer winter weather? If you could go, what would you take with you?

4. Vocabulary splinters: sharp, thin pieces that have broken off something telegraph: a device used to send words in code from one place to another trail: a path through wilderness

5. Vocabulary guided: led others to where they needed to go drifts: large piles of snow heaped up by the wind temperature: the measure of how hot or cold something is