Lessons Learned from Hobbs, London, and the Yukon Gold Rush

All of these findings gave context to the stories; they provided students with a sense of what was real, accurate, and true. Because students recorded notes and reflections in their wilderness journals, they also drew pictures to illuminate their understandings of place and history. [...]we would em...

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Published in:The ALAN review 2008-12, Vol.35 (2), p.62
Main Authors: Lott, Carolyn, Wasta, Stephanie
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent Literature
Cold
College Faculty
Core curriculum
Grade 8
Language arts
Learning
Libraries
London, Jack
London, Jack (1876-1916)
Naturalism
Novels
Periodicals
Photography
Primary Sources
Reading
Realism
Social Studies
Students
Teachers
Teaching
Young adult literature
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Summary:All of these findings gave context to the stories; they provided students with a sense of what was real, accurate, and true. Because students recorded notes and reflections in their wilderness journals, they also drew pictures to illuminate their understandings of place and history. [...]we would emphasize the wilderness journals even more as the drawings and reflections gave us additional proof of student understandings of setting. Jason, however, reunited with his brothers and started a new life with them in Alaska. Because of these and other parallels between Buck and Jason, a key objective we had for the eighth graders was to examine the characterization of each protagonist. Students could understand nature, man, and circumstances that precipitated events in the novel. Because they had read Jason's Gold first, students' expectations were set for The Call of the Wild.
ISSN:1547-741X
0882-2840
1547-741X
DOI:10.21061/alan.v35i2.a.9