~ “He travels fastest who travels alone … but not after the frost has dropped below zero fifty degrees or more.—Yukon Code.”~
 
Classwork:
  • Read “To Build A Fire” by Jack London
  • Decide what is the main type of conflict in the story.
  • Prove it, using examples in the form of quotations, from the story
  • Use I PEE PEE C format!​
Paragraph criteria (“Conflict”) and “How Expository Paragraphs Work” attached below.
 

Three-Point Scale

Grade/ Point Characteristics

3 Writing is of superior quality. Student has taken time and effort to choose effective vocabulary, use sentence variety, and writing is cohesively organized. Transitions, images, and dialogue are displayed with sophistication. Does not need to be free of errors.

2 Writing is of acceptable and above-average quality. Writing is clear, but may lack cohesion or use simplistic sentence structure or vocabulary. Style may be inconsistent (displaying some superior and some below-average characteristics).

1 Writing is of below-average quality. Writing may be too brief to contain meaning, or sentences may be disjointed, full of errors, or structure may be weak. Writing lacks cohesion or may be simply a list of facts/ideas.

0 The student wrote nothing or nearly nothing. No discernible meaning present.

To Build a Fire – by Jack London

Jack London ‘To Build a Fire’ | Nexus Studios

Conflict in Literature

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How Expository Paragraphs Work

Conflict

To Build A Fire conflict para

Photo: Jack London writing outdoors, c. 1905. Public domain (via Wikimedia Commons).