The Call of the Wild

Description

Each classic in our series

• outlines an interpretive method to improve close reading, a process that shows students how to develop commentary beyond the plot, strategies used by top performing students on national exams.

• guides students to examine key details as they read each page of the text with questions regarding key literary elements: setting, character, tone, atmosphere, point of view, plot, and dialogue

• identifies significant passages throughout the text that develop key thematic patterns-providing sample prompts that appear on standardized exams.

• provides footnotes for historical and literary context.

• provides samples of annotated pages for plot and fort heme.

• includes a glossary of challenging vocabulary.

ABOUT THE EDITOR

Ian Berry has been a teacher at Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas for ten years. He has studied literature at the University of Texas and Sorbonne University (formerly Université Paris-Sorbonne). He first discovered his love for writing as a student in Degen’s AP Literature classroom, and has been refining the craft of teaching it ever since.

Sample pages

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