To Build a Fire Short Story Literature Guide Unit, Lesson Plan

Teaching "To Build a Fire" doesn't have to be a long, cold experience! With this up-to-date mini unit teaching pack, you have everything you need to set, teach, enjoy, and assess this classic short story. Plus -- it's all super low prep and standards based.

Student Experience: Students will step into the shoes of the traveler in the pre-reading activities and explore the Alaskan terrain, answer text-based questions, read about a real-life survivor and make comparisons, and analyze the film version of this text. Each activity is designed with the teen audience in mind from its content, rigor, and visual appeal.

Contents:

• Links to Texts, Audio, and Movie
• Pre-Reading Group Activity (link provided)
• Background info
• Text-Based Comprehension Questions with answers
• Nonfiction Paired Reading (with answers)
• Skills Focus Tasks (with answers)
• Cause and Effect
• Irony
• Setting Affects Plot Gallery Walk (Can also be used as pre-reading)
• Symbolism
• Two Writing Prompts
• How-To Mode Creative Exercise
• Movie Viewing Guide (with suggested answers)
• PDF and digital format made with Google

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Updated 2020