Lesson 23 — Activity 1: Chapters 10 - 11
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Lesson 23 — Activity 1: Chapters 10 – 11
Before starting this activity, please read chapters 10 and 11 of the novel. Remember to think about the strategies you can use as you read.
Point of View:
You know that the point of view is the perspective from which the story is told. It is important that an author choose a point of view that will work best for a particular story.
There are different types of point of view. A story can be told from the first person ("I" or "my"), second person ("you"), or from the third person ("she" or "they"). We can get into the minds of the characters (called "omniscient") or we can simply see them from the outside, like real life (called "objective").
Not one method is generally better than the other, but an author decides which one will best suit a particular story.
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At the beginning of chapter 10, Noah leaves for his winter camping trip at 5:40 A.M. He learns how to attach the sled dogs onto the harness, and he also finds out that Etua, Steve's five-year-old son that you read about in the beginning of the story, is also coming on the camping trip. Steve shows Noah how to "mush" (which is the term used when dogs pull a sled on snow) and tells him that he might get to do some mushing before the weekend is over. The dogs take off, and the sled lands hard on the snow, making a crashing sound as it hits the ground. Later in the chapter, they are met by two more dogsled teams. This is when Noah finds out that Lenny is also going on the winter camping trip, which Noah is not happy about. At the end of the chapter, Noah is running beside the dogs, and he gets stuck in a snowdrift. The chapter ends with Lenny laughing at Noah as he states, "Can't keep up with Inuit dogs?"
Dog Sled Race by Zeledi from en.wikipedia.org, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0
In chapter 11, the three dogsled teams continue on their journey. When they stop for lunch, Noah learns that many of the Inuit have never had McDonald's, as most of them have never left George River before. A couple of the campers shoot some ptarmigan
(pronounced "tarmigan" without the "p"), which is to be served for their lunch. Noah has never eaten anything like that before. He wants to fit in, so he takes two pieces of the raw liver and heart from the dead bird and pops them into his mouth!
However, all he can think about is that he's eating raw bird's liver, and that's when he throws up. Lenny laughs so hard, he falls over in the snow.
Arctic Ptarmigan
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Arctic Ptarmigan
Courtesy of Pixabay