Most Dangerous Game Lesson

[judifilksign]

I've been doing my start-of-the-year survival unit.  It has stories in it in which people die (Welcome to high school; the stories just got real.)  Having read the story "Most Dangerous Game," I'm having the students view the 1932 film starring Faye Wray, Joel McCrea, and Leslie Banks to do a compare/contrast with decisions in how Zaroff's evil is

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[judifilksign]

Gorgeous! Julie Beaver on fiddle totally makes that song. Not related to the story, but it's totally awesome anyhow!

[thnidu]

link plz?

[maverick_weirdo]

When do you get to "To Build A Fire" By Jack London?

[judifilksign]

We'll do TBaF next week. We do a bit with story structure with MDG with conflict, and genre.

With TBaF, we look at Man vs. Nature, and Man vs. Self, but we also consider the audience: who was London writing FOR, and how did that shape his narrative, especially when considering the author's life experiences?

When we consider the reasons behind the story, the why would the author do that to the reader becomes not only clear, but admirable.
With the discovery of gold in 1896 in the Klondike by George Washington Carmack,100,000 people went up to the area to strike it rich. Only 40,000 made it, meaning 60,000 people died that first winter. London wanted to ensure that more people were prepared for the bitter cold, so he could save lives.