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Book Summary For Into The Wild

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  • Common Core alignment to "Reading: Literature and Subject-related Content" is to 3 key phrases: "Particular Topic", "Context" and "Reading Literature". CCSS Alignment Strand Numbers for Specific Grades: Particular Topic: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: 4.6. 5.6, 6.6, 7.6, 8.6, 9-10.6, 11-12.6 Context: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: 2.4a, 3.4a, 4.4a, 5.4a, 6.4a, 7.4a, 8.4a, 9-10.4a, 11-12.4a Reading: Literature: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: RL.2.4, RL.3.4, RL.4.4. RL.5.4, RL.6.4, RL.7.4, RL.8.4, RL.9-10.4, RL.11-12.4 Reading: Informational Text: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: RI.2.4, RI.3.4, RI.4.4. RI.5.4, RI.6.4, RI.7.4, RI.8.4, RI.9-10.4, RI.11-12.4
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A vocabulary word list for Into The Wild is arranged by chapter:

  • Author\’s Note: –
    decomposed, elite, transcendent, convoluted, allure, adversity
  • The Alaskan Interior: Chapter One pp. 3-7 – congenial, dissuade
  • The Stampede Trail Chapter Two pp. 9-14 – escarpment, amalgam, oxidized, anomaly, cursory, posit
  • Carthage Chapter Three pp. 15-23 – mawkish, convivial, severance
  • Detrital Wash Chapter Four pp. 25-37 – egress, flout, intermittent, austerity, indolently
  • Bullhead City Chapter Five pp. 38-47 – oxymoron, itinerant, primordial
  • Anza-Borrego Chapter Six pp. 48-60 – anachronistic, creosote, unabated, prodigious, indigent, relent, claustrophobic, brash, vagabond, virulent
  • Carthage Chapter Seven pp. 61-69 – maw, ascetic, enticement, lament
  • Alaska Chapter Eight pp. 70-85 – demise, strident, contrived, histrionic, recondite, banalities, subsist, equanimity, harrowing, crevass, lucrative, paucity
  • Davis Gulch Chapter Nine pp. 87-97 – defile, ephemeral, emblazon, brazen, eminent, callow, insolence, droves
  • Fairbanks Chapter Ten pp. 98-102 – flora, fauna
  • Chesapeake Beach Chapter Eleven pp. 103-116 – arcane, mercurial, chasten, convergence, concoct, grueling, inherent
  • Annandale Chapter Twelve pp. 117-126 – obsequious, dollop, clemency, philanderer, sanctimonious, indignation, obliquely, anomalous, idiosyncratic, lambast, castigate, conferer, extemporaneous, hue, pellucid, carrel
  • Virginia Beach Chapter Thirteen pp. 127-132 – recalcitrant, bereavement
  • The Strikine Ice Cap Chapter Fourteen pp. 133-144 – demarcate, precipitous, desideratum, labyrinthine, phantasmagoric, emanate, recumbent, dearth, chutzpah
  • The Strikine Ice Cap Chapter Fifteen pp. 145-156 – volatile, hector, rueful, epiphany, grimace, onerous, needlessness
  • The Alaska Interior Chapter Sixteen pp. 157-171 – gloaming, bulwark, gauntlet, rictus
  • The Stampede Trail Chapter Seventeen pp. 172-186 – heathenism, malevolent, incandescent, sustenance, rumination, demean
  • The Stampede Trail Chapter Eighteen pp. 187-199 – munificence, precarious
  • Epilogue pp. 200-207 – solace, percussive

    Thank you, Jan Cook, a former teacher at Sacred Heart Prep in Atherton, California, for being the teacher contributor at www.myVocabulary.com for a vocabulary word list for Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer.