Respond to these in your journal.
What do these two sentences mean:
“The scent filled our noses vaguely warning us that the happiness would not come.”
“The air was filled with tension, exciting yet foreboding.”
The children saw their father beat their mother with his fists. Velma says there was a war in the cabin. What does she mean?
How did Pete cheat the buyer of his furs? What do you think of this?
Children now-a-days do not have chores like they used to. Do you think that children should have more responsibilities and do more things around the house?
Except for our few connections to the outside world--the school, the Air Force station, and its radio station--Fort Yukon was a three-road town. Compare this to your community. Use the Venn diagram on Handout 3 to compare and contrast.
What's a country food recipe of your own? Share this recipe with your class. Make a country food cookbook.
In the evening when the adults were drinking, what would happen? Draw a cycle.