Terry Pruyne's Classes
  • Daily Agenda
  • Introduction
    • 10R: INTRODUCTION
  • The Personal Project
    • Checklist for Personal Project
    • Personal Project information Packet
    • Global Contexts >
      • Examples for the Global Context Question
    • Annotated Bibliography: Personal Project >
      • Example of an Annotated Bibliogrpahy
    • The Presentation: Personal Project
  • What is Civil Disobedience?
    • Pathos, Ethos, and Logos >
      • Pathos, Ethos, and Logos in Leter from Birmingham Jail
    • MLK: Letter from Birmingham Jail >
      • Question for "Letter From Birmingham Jail"
    • Literary Elements in "Letter from Birmingham Jail"
    • Thoreau: Where I Live and What I Live For
  • Short Story Unit
    • Science Fiction >
      • Harrison Bergeron >
        • Harrison Bergeron analysis
      • A Sound of Thunder >
        • "Sound of Thunder" analysis
      • All Summer in a Day
    • Short Story Unit: Part II >
      • Lather Research
      • Sniper: Research
      • Sniper Research Paper
    • Superman and Me by Sherman Alexie
  • This I Believe
    • This I Believe: Writing Your Personal Belief
    • This I Believe: Guidelines to Write
    • This I Believe: Philosophy of Life in Songs
    • Thoreau: Where I Live and What I Live For
  • Antigone
    • Antigone: Intro Questions
    • Letter to an Administrator >
      • Letter to an Administrator: sample letter
  • Maus
    • Maus: Chapter 1 Questions
    • Maus: Chapter 2 Questions
    • Maus: Chapter 3 Questions
    • Maus: Chapter 4 Questions
    • Maus: Chapter 5 Questions
    • Maus: Chapter 6 Questions
    • Maus: Understanding Graphic Novels >
      • Maus: Seven Types of Comic Panels
      • Maus: six Types of Transitions
      • Maus: What is Inference
      • Maus: Videos
      • Comic Book Drawings
    • Maus Project >
      • graphic novel project: Spongebob
      • graphic novel project: A Blade in the Night
      • graphic novel project: example
      • Grading the Maus Project
  • Of Mice and Men
    • Of Mice and Men: Introduction
    • Of Mice and Men >
      • Of Mice & Men: The American Dream
      • Themes in Of Mice and Men >
        • Social Consciousness
        • Lonliness in Of Mice and Men
        • The American Dream
      • Literary Elements in Of Mice and Men
      • Chapter Questions
      • Texas Uses Lenny for Execution Role Model
      • Of Mice and Men: You are a Lawyer
      • Documents: Of Mice and Men
      • courtroom
      • Evidence to Convict George
      • Evidence to Defend George
  • MLA Page Set up and Other Important Info and Links
    • Concession and Refutation
  • Poetry
    • Poetry Terms
    • Poetry: The Wind
    • Poetry: Ex-Basketball Player
    • Poetry: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?
    • Poetry: The Whipping >
      • Point of View
      • The Whipping Resources
    • Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening >
      • Frost
    • All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
  • Into the Wild
    • Into the Wild: Why a Road Trip
    • Henry David Thoreau >
      • Thoreau Into the Wild Assignment
      • Thoreau in Into the Wild
      • Commencement Speech at Mount Holyoke College
    • Questions: Into the Wild (Chapters 1-6) >
      • Happiness
      • Aftermath of Into the Wild
  • MLA STYLE EXAMPLE PAPER
  • Help for Passing the Common Core Exam
    • Help for Part I of the New York State Common Core Exam
    • Help for Part II of the New York State Common Core Exam >
      • First Organizer for Part II
      • Second Organizer for Part II
      • Concession and Refutation
    • Help for Part III of the New York State Common Core Exam
    • Literary Terms: Short Definitions for the Commonly Used on New York State Exams
    • Mr. Ruth's Study Guide
  • RHETORIC & EVIDENCE-BASED CLAIMS
    • Political Cartoons
  • Additional Readings
    • Serving in Florida by Barbara Ehreneich
  • Literary Devices Through the Rolling Stones
  • Creating a Brochure
  • 10H: INTRODUCTION
  • Literary Elements
    • Literary Terms: Characterization
    • Literary Terms: Allusion
    • Literary Terms: Theme
    • Literary Elements: Imagery
    • Literary Terms: Conflict
    • Literary Terms: Irony
  • Documenting Sources (Works Cited)

Into the wild: Chapters 1-6

Chapter 1
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1. Jim Gallien picked Chris McCandless up as Chris is hitchhiking in Alaska. What is the date?

2. Why do you think that Chris gave Jim a phony name (Alex)?

3. What does Chris have in his small backpack?

4. How does Jim try to talk Alex out of going into the woods?

5. Does anyone know that Chris is going to live in the Alaskan woods? What explanation does Alex give?

6. Why does Alex give Gallien his watch, money, and comb?

7. What did Gallien give Alex?
What does Gallien think of Chris?

8. At the end of the trip, why doesn't Gallien tell the police where Chris is?

9. What do we know about Chris/Alex by the end of the chapter?
Chapter 2
 
1. What trail did Chris follow into the mountains?
 
 
 
2. How did the junked buses get to Alaska?
 
 
 
 
3. What are they used for now?
 
 
 
4. When the hunters went to the junked bus, they found a note. What did it say?
 
 
 
5. What did they find in the sleeping bag?

Chapter 3
 
1. What is the population of Carthage, SD?
 
 
2. What is Wayne occupation and how did he and Alex/Chris meet?
 
 
 
3. What are rubber tramps? Leather tramps?
 
 
 
4. How does Wayne describe Alex? List three things.
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                2.
                3.
 
5. Why did Alex leave Carthage?
 
 
 
6. Where was Alex from? What did his father do for a living?
 
 
 
7. When was the last time someone from his family saw Alex?
 
8. What was Chris’s new name on the road?


Chapter 4

1.  What happened to Chris’s car? Why did he leave it?
 
 
2. Was Chris upset about his car? What did he do with his money?
 
 
 
3. Where did Chris get a job? Why did he leave?
 
 
 
4. Who (the couple) picked Chris up? How did they describe him?
 
 
 
5. What was Chris surviving on?
 
 
 
6. Why were his parents worried? What did they do to find him? Does Chris have an obligation to them?

CHAPTER 5

1. In Chapter 5 where did Chris settle and what job did he get?
 
 
 
2. What were two problems Chris had at his job?
 
 
 
 
3. Why did he quit? Where did he live?
 
 
 
 
4. Who did he meet at the Slabs?
 
 
5. What did he do for them? What books did he read?
 
 
6. How did he entertain people?
 
 
7. Where did he go next?

Chapter 6
 
1.  Who sends a letter to Outside Magazine? What does he want?
 
 
 
2. How did Ron and Alex meet? Where is Alex living?
 
 
 
3. What happened to Ron’s family?
 
 
 
4. When Alex leaves Ron where does he go? Why?
 
 
 
5. What is a bull? How does the bull treat Alex? How does Alex have the last laugh?
 
 
 
 
6. After Alex returns to Ron where does Alex go? Why?
 
 
 
7. What advice does Alex give Ron (in the letter)? How does Ron respond to the advice?

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