Junior Project - FAMOUS AMERICAN start!

Today, we are conducting preliminary research for our Famous American. Please do the following activities before you fill out your COMMITTEE FORM.

1. Watch the Prezi presentation on Famous Americans.
2. Explore the links on the right for websites for ideas.

3. When you have decided on your FAMOUS AMERICAN, locate a book or ebook using the LIBRARY DATABASES, which are free for Washougal students and a great resource.
ABC-Clio, Culturegrams, EBSCO, ProQuest, SIRS Discover - username:librarywhs - password:panthers

4. Locate websites with a full biography of your topic by using SITE LIMITERS in the keyword search. Type in your topic and the words SITE:EDU, SITE:ORG, or SITE:NET


5. Create a NEW FOLDER in your GOOGLE DRIVE

      a. click on Google Drive
      b. locate the blue NEW button in the top left corner menu
      c. click button and select FOLDER
      d. entitle your folder JUNIOR PROJECT, where you will keep all research, forms, paper, and speech preparation documents. THIS WILL BE THE FINAL CHECK OFF AT THE END OF THE YEAR!!!

6. Fill out WITH DETAIL, the COMMITTEE FORM by MAKING A COPY INTO WORD AND RENAMING IT. This is the only way to enable editing of the document. 
DO not ask me for access with an email.......do not retype form!

7. Show completed form to instructor to secure your topic.

Into the Wild - Krakauer

Read the novel Into the Wild - chapter 1 and answer the questions about the excerpt. Find the questions - here

Into the Wild

Christopher McCandless risked it all to adventure into the wilds of Alaska - what was he searching for?  He was greatly inspired by Transcendentalists Emerson and Thoreau. He loved the Alaska-centered writings of Jack London. For an advanced option to the Unit 4 test, read the full book, Into the Wild - full etext, and choose a topic/theme for your final test.

possible topics for a final exam question are here.

Jack London - To Build A Fire

To Build A Fire: From Thursday, please read the story and answer the following questions on a separate sheet of paper:
1. What was ironic about what many Americans called "Seward's Folly"?
2. Identify at least three (3) internal and (3) external conflicts in the story.
3. What is the Iditarod?

4. Based on the passage describing the hidden creek, what do you predict will happen to the man in the Yukon?
5. How do you feel this story will end - with the man dying from hypothermia, or will he make it to camp?
6. What advice from the old-timer does the man choose to ignore?
7. Why do you think the author decided to NOT give the man a proper name?  What is the effect?
8. What does the story suggest about human strength vs. nature's power?
9. What is ironic about the place the man chooses to build his first fire?
10. "Fifty degrees below zero meant eighty-odd degrees of frost. Such fact...did not lead him to meditate upon his frailty as a creature of temperature, and upon man's frailty in general, able only to live within certain narrow limits of heat and cold."
In this passage, the phrase "frailty as a creature of temperature" means: