Dragon Booktalk: SOHS English Lit Circs

Sooner or later, everyone gets itchy feet.

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In their final literature circle discussion, Rachel is “gregarious” in sharing her vocab enrichment, Michael believes Krakauer is living vicariously through Chris, Kyle wonders why Chris is in denial about his brother’s death, Brady connects Chris’s fate in the wilderness to Piggy in Lord of the Flies, Dylan investigates Thoreau’s “civil disobedience” (quoted on page 123), and Elena illustrates Chris’s book of plants, the result of his tragic death.

Keep checking back for the group’s book commercial this week.

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In their first literature circle discussion, Brady summarizes the first 103 pages, Rachel asks the group if they would ever believe in something so much that they would abandon everything for it, Dylan compares the flight of Midsummer’s Hermia into the woods like Chris’s escape into the wilderness, Elena wonders about Chris’s habit of speaking in third person and underlining words in his journals, Kyle predicts Davis Gulch is a person that Chris will meet (but it turns out to be a town), and Michael illustrates Chris as a “One Man Army”:

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“I now walk into the wild . . .”

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