Call of the Wild

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Call of the Wild

• Jack London

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• Call of the Wild Chapter One Vocabulary
• yes correct
• to get back to pay back in return
• 3. small fenced area for
  exercising horses
• 4. children descendants or
  offspring
• 5. goods sent for safekeeping
  or resale
• 6. having a dark complexion
• talk to ones self
• disaster deep trouble or
  misery
• 9. to change
• 10. sated aristocratan upper class person who
  has his fill of all the good and fine things in
  life
• 11. trifle egotisticalthinking only of ones
  interests slightly self-centered
• 12. besetting
• 13. Klondike strikediscovery of gold in Canada
• 14. intimate (v) 17. slaver -
• 15. soua French coin 18. conciliate -
• 16. hydrophoby(ia) 19. Narwhal- a ship

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Call of the Wild Character Chart Dogs Leave 3
spaces between each Buck Spitz Curly Leave 2
spaces Billee Dub
Sol-leks Dolly Dave
Joe Skeet Pike
Nig
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Call of the Wild Character Chart People Leave 2
spaces between each Judge Miller John
Thorton Manuela Hans Man in
red sweater Pete Francois
Black Burton Perrault The
Yeehats Charles Hal Mercedes
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Call of the Wild Literary Focus Characterization
direct and indirect Conflict internal and
external Theme universal idea or message
of the text
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• COTW Chapter 2 Vocabulary Copy definitions and
  use context sentences and dictionary to complete.
• _______greedily very hungrily
• _______evil having a bad influence
• _______dishonorable causing or deserving shame
  or disgrace
• _______continuing forever
• _______feel as if one is actually taking part
• _______to fake illness to avoid work
• _______laborious requiring much energy
• _______animal used for pulling loads
• _______not easy to please critical easily
  disgusted
• _______looking into ones own mind

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COTW Chp 2 Vocab Continued 11.
primordialoriginal existing at the
beginning 12. combatantsfighters 13.
antagonistbad guy 14. incarnationthat which
serves as a living example/symbol 15.
belligerentstart fights hostile 16.
prowessbravery superior ability 17.
consternation-great fear or shock making one feel
helpless 18. triceshort time quickly 19.
traceseither of 2 straps by which an animal is
connected to vehicle being pulled 20.
cadencesflow or sound change or shift in tone
or speech
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Character Pop Quiz You may use your character
chart!

• Buck
• Curly
• Dave
• Spitz
• Sol-leks
• Joe
• Billee
• Dolly
• Pike
• Dub

• good natured Newfoundland killed by other dogs
• awkward blunderer punished for Bucks theft of
  food
• eager to please
• last added to the team goes mad and is killed
• malingerer thief
• fast learner proud adapting to new way of life
• sour perpetual snarl evil eye
• Angry One only one eye
• friendly in a treacherous way aggressive
  disciplinarian rival
• loner took interest in nothing

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• COTW Chp 3 Vocab Copy definitions and use
  context sentences and dictionary to complete
• _______large vein in neck
• _______avoid entirely keep away from
• _______to lift
• _______outstanding in worth above all others
• _______revolt rebellion
• _______about to happen threatening
• _______small minor
• _______unwilling reluctant
• _______something that drives another person to do
  
• something urge
• 10._______working in a slow, subtle, tricky way
• 11._______lacking self respect degradedly,
  miserably
• 12._______a person who roams in search or booty
  (loot)
• 13._______not customary out of the ordinary
• 14._______any place or condition of noise and
  confusion
• 15._______supreme power or authority

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• Chp 3 Addition Vocabulary
• precipitate--hastily acting or happening rashly
  or hurriedly
• divinedperceive or understand to guess or fin
  out intuitively
• pandemoniumwild disorder uproar
• gauntthin, sunken eyes bony
• dubiouslydoubtful uncertain
• eddieslittle whirlpools
• dauntedfrightened disheartened
• blunderedcareless mistake
• shirkedavoid, neglect
• prostratelying face down
• aurora borealisnorthern lights
• travailagony intense pain of hard work
• exultantlytriumphant joyful

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• COTW Vocab Chp 4
• _______speed swiftness in acting or moving
• _______very slowly in a winding, creeping way
• __________to want as your own
• __________ gloomy sullen ill-tempered
• __________ consented agreed give in to
• __________ overwhelmed
• __________ to stir up or move vigorously
• __________ to struggle or plunge about awkwardly
• __________ very sad or mournful in an exaggerated
  way
• __________ capable of recovering quickly to
  bounce back

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• Chp 4 Additional Vocab
• scruffskin at back of neck
• obduratestubborn
• remotefar off
• aspiredto want or desire to attain
• riddledpierce in many places
• bore uphold up sustained
• perplexedconfused uncertain
• convulsiveshaking violently

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Chps 1-4 Major Test Preparation Vocabularyknow
the following words chp 1 affirmative
retaliated soliloquized chp 2 perpetual
arduous fastidiousness chp 3 shunned
impending loath goaded supremacy chp 4 all
context clue words1-10 Responsesbe prepared
to answer one thoroughly Fully explain what
happened to Dave. Why is what happened to him
significant to the story Why do you think the
author included this episode in the book?
Giving specific examples from the first 4
chapters, fully present how any two of the four
conflicts discussed in class apply to the novel.
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• COTW Chp 5 Vocab
• _______lacking pity or mercy
• __________to shake or tremble
• _______awe-inspiring in size or bulk
• _______gallant honorable
• _______lasting a long time
• ______complaint/resentment or statement
  expressing this
• _______to make a false show of
• _______to beg a person to do something
• _______very unhappy miserable
• _______dull and uninspiring
• _______pleasant quality attractiveness
• _______uneasy or fearful of the future
• _______protest or complaint
• _______to coax with flattery and insincere talk

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• Chapter Six Vocabulary
• - gorge deep crack in the earths surface
• - to get in the way of
• - gradual recovery of health after an illness
• - a spreading of an idea from on to another
• unwise not careful about what one does or says
• - giving evidence of showing feelings openly
• - similar
• - to have a strong wish or longing
• -confused talk or chatter
• - a decline a lessening or weakening of
• - a magic spell
• - something causing another to react especially
  with anger
• - sharing of ones thoughts and emotions
• - a petty objection or criticism
• - daring act bold deed

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• Chapter Six Additional Vocabulary
• waxed to become
• ministrations act or instance of giving help or
  care
• expediency useful for bringing about a desired
  result
• forewent precedecome before
• savor to have a particular taste that excites
• peremptorily final decisive
• raft journey or trip
• grubstaked money provided to finance an
  undertaking
• snubbing to climb with a rope from pole to pole

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• Chapter Seven Vocabulary
• mentally alert strong, acute
• - occurring at the same time
• - great in size, amount, etc.
• - that which can be touched, substantial,
  real
• - misfortune event causing harm or
  damage
• - behave in disorderly, violent,
  abandoned manner
• - not clear
• - very minute so small it is immeasurable
• - to make unseen by wiping out or covering
• - in order a series or pattern
• - meat eater
• - prey hunted source as food
• - holding strong to ones opinion, persistent

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• - masterful forceful masculine
• - secretly
• - alert and watchful especially to avoid danger
• - become absorbed in thought
• - old rickety
• whipsawed crosscut saw with handles on both
  ends
• placer glacier deposit of sand or gravel
  containing gold
• impelled urged on driven forward or onward
• commingled blend mixed together
• asunder-into separate pieces
• paroxysms- sudden outbursts of rage
• ambuscade- to attack from a hidden position -
  ambush
• certitude- free from doubt
• incarnate have a bodily form
• stead stand in place of another advantage

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15. Taut 16. Salient noticeable 17. Chaffering
bargaining 18. Slipshod 19. Slovenly careless
in appearance 20. Contraption gadget a device
put together in a complicated way 21. Repugnance
22. Inexorable elimination that which cannot
be changed 23. Superfluous 24. Orthodox usual
beliefs usual things 25. Wrangled to quarrel
angrily or noisily 26. Copious plentiful
abundant 27. Prerogative 28. Recital the
account or story told 29. Perambulating to walk
through, over or around as inspecting 30.
Inarticulate 31. Gee pole steering pole at the
front of the sled 32. Irresolutely changeably
inconstantly
Chapter 5 Additional Vocabulary
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Major Test 5-7 Vocabulary callous imploringly
Bring rescue story for bonus points
on keen impeded your test!! vague cajole Cha
pter questions due with test for
major apprehensive convalescence grade!! wretched
exploit stealthily obliterated chivalrously tang
ible calamity Essays chasm 1. Contrast
Bucks relationship with quarry the Judge vs.
John Thornton feigned 2. What happens to John?
How does ramshackle Buck react? What does it
mean for Buck? simultaneous 3. Reflection