Where the Red Fern Grows

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Where the Red Fern Grows

• by Wilson Rawls

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Chapter 1

• Focus question
• The narrator doesnt yet reveal his name. What
  does he tell and show about himself?
• Vocabulary Words
• sheen
• squalling

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Farming in the 1920s
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Chapter 2

• Focus question How do you picture Billy and
  his home?
• Vocabulary
• aromatic
• canebrakes
• Sparsely
• squalling

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Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma
The Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma
A Cherokee Chief
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Chapter 3

• Focus question How does Billy change during
  these two years?
• Vocabulary
• dumbfounded
• festered
• quavering

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The Ozark Mountains
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Chapter 4

• Focus question Compare Billy to the
  townspeople.
• Vocabulary
• provisions

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Chapter 5

• Focus question What bonds are already being
  forged between Billy and the pups?
• Vocabulary
• muster
• provisions

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Chapter 6

• Focus question Are you surprised by his
  parents reaction when Billy comes home with the
  puppies? Why or why not?
• Vocabulary
• hampering
• querying

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Rural Life
A corncrib is a slatted enclosurefor storing
and drying ears of corn. The spaced slats let
air circulate and prevent rotting.
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Another example of a corncrib
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Chapter 7

• Focus question What do you learn about raccoons
  and raccoon hunting in this chapter?
• Vocabulary
• bulldogged
• gouge
• wiley

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Raccoon Hunting
Dogs chase the raccoon by scent until it is
treed, which means that it is trapped in a
tree.
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The dogs then bark treed, and then the hunter
got the raccoon down by chopping the tree down or
scaring it out. It was considered
unsportsmanlike to kill a raccoon while it was
treed.
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Chapter 8

• Focus Question How does this chapter
  demonstrate Billys feelings for his dogs?
• Vocabulary
• domain
• jarred

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Chapter 9

• Focus Question Based on Billys actions, what
  three adjectives would you use to describe him?
• Vocabulary
• limbered
• wedge
• winced

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Chapter 10

• Focus Question What do you learn about the
  unusual qualities of Old Dan and Little Ann in
  this chapter?
• Vocabulary
• abounded
• nonchalantly
• riffle
• slough

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Chapter 11

• Focus Question What do you discover about the
  importance of self-reliance?
• Vocabulary

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Chapter 12

• Focus Question Compare Billy and the Pritchard
  boys.
• Vocabulary
• begrudgingly
• debris
• disposition
• surpassed

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Prohibition (1920 1933)
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Chapter 13

• Focus Question Are you surprised by the outcome
  of the ghost coon hunt? Why or why not?
• Vocabulary
• clambered
• taut

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Chapter 14

• Focus Question This chapter reveals the
  personalities of Billys mother, his youngest
  sister, and his grandmother. What is Billys
  relationship with each of them?
• Vocabulary
• droning
• gloated
• jubilant

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Chapter 15

• Focus Question What do Grandpas actions tell
  about his character?
• Vocabulary
• dabbing

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Chapter 16

• Focus Question How do you predict the hunt will
  end? What makes you think so?
• Vocabulary
• doused
• faltered
• flitting

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Chapter 17

• Focus Question Are the Colmans actions during
  the blizzard responsible or irresponsible?
  Explain your answer.
• Vocabulary
• gawking

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Chapter 18

• Focus Question What do you learn about love and
  loyalty from Billy, Grandpa, and the dogs?
• Vocabulary
• awed
• haggard

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Chapter 19

• Focus Question In what ways do Old Dan and
  Little Ann help Billy and his family?
• Vocabulary
• berserk feeble
• churring foliage
• cleaved jugular
• disembowel lithe
• entrails scourge

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Chapter 20

• Focus Question How does Billy come to terms
  with the deaths of Old Dan and Little Ann?
• Vocabulary