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Here are the guiding questions for the optional make up of one quiz. These are due by Friday, December 3:

Here is your map assignment for //Into the Wild//:

Which adjectives best describe Chris McCandless? Why do you think Gallien let Alex go on his way into the Stampede Trail when he was grossly ill prepared? What actions does Chris take before he goes into the wild? Which characteristic did Westerberg attribute to his downfall. What is ironic about where Chris donated his money? Why did Ronald Franz take an interest in Alex?
 * Guiding Questions for chapters 1-6:**

Download a copy of the lyrics to the soundtrack for the movie //Into the Wild// here: Vocabulary: The vocabulary in this book can be dense. Use this as a guide for your reading, previewing before your reading Here is a quizlet for the vocabulary Author's Note through chapter 9: [] taiga: regions of subarctic and cold continental climates destitute: very poor emulating:copying, modeling oneself on
 * Author's Note:**
 * transcendent**: mystical, spiritual
 * peregrinations**: travels, wanderings
 * asceticism**: the doctrine that a person can attain a high spiritual and moral state by practicing self-denial and abstinence from materialistic and worldly possessions

congenial (5): friendly
 * The Alaskan Interior-Chapter 1**:
 * dissuade** (5): discourage, prevent from
 * meandered** (5): zigzagged, wandered, rambled
 * foolhardy** (5): reckless

antimony (10): a metallic element anomaly (11): glitch, inconsistency cursory (13): hurried, brief, superficial enigmatic (13): puzzling, mysterious
 * The Stampede Trail-Chapter 2**:
 * escarpments ** (10): a steep slope
 * amalgam ** (10): combination
 * contumacious ** (11): rebellious

** amiable ** (16): good-natured convivial (18):sociable plebeian (18) - crude, common **mien** (18): appearance onerous (22): troublesome
 * Carthage-Chapter 3**:
 * visage ** (16): face


 * Detrital Wash-Chapter 4: **

indolently (32): lazy, inactive sere (32): withered, dry flout : defy, refuse to obey intermittent ** : irregular, isolated, scattered **
 * egress ** (28): going out
 * saline ** (32): salty
 * austerity: strictness, seriousness, self-discipline **


 * Bullhead City-Chapter 5: **

** itinerant ** (43) - traveling primordial (44) – primal, basic form of development fatuous (44) – satisfied and stupid **sedentary** (44) – sitting, remaining in one area
 * bourgeois ** (39) – middle class **lumpen** (39) – displaced people, misfits of society

hegira (48) - flight **creosote** (48) – an oily liquid desiccated (49) – dried phantasmal (49) - ghostly arroyo (49) – gorge **indigent** (50) – poor serape (51) – poncho harangues (51) – sermon **fulminate** (52) – verbal attack **endemic** (52) – widespread unalloyed (55) - pure **maw**: entrance, opening, gap, hole **ascetic**: self-denying, simple, reclusive **enticement**: temptation, allure, attraction lament: wail, moan, complaint demise: death **strident:** harsh, rough, grating **histrionic**: melodramatic, theatrical, exaggerated recondite: obscure, complex, complicated **banalities**: dullness, staleness, superficial talk paucity: scarcity, shortage defile: spoil, impair, taint, tarnish ephemeral: fleeting, short-lived, momentary emblazon: display, show **brazen**: shameless, defiant, blatant eminent: distinguished **callow**: inexperienced, unsophisticated **insolence**: the state of being ill-mannered or rude droves: flocks, packs
 * Anza-Borrego-Chapter 6: **
 * Carthage-Chapter 7: **
 * Alaska-Chapter 8: **
 * Davis Gul **** ch- ** **Chapter 9**: