Bite of the Gold Bug DeClements, Barthe

Theme/Subject

• Westward
• Exploration and Expansion
• Survivale
  Subject:
  Alaska
  Subject:
  Gold mines and mining
  Subject:
  Alaska Fiction.
  Subject:
  Historical - United States - 19th Century
  Subject:
  Gold mines and mining -- Fiction.
  http://www.akresource.org/curriculum_cd/rollingstone/sepRs03.pdf

• How did each of the chapters get their names? explain the circumstances.
• The mosquitoes are as big as hummingbirds —
•  Itchy wool drawers — 
• The old man and the little dog —
•  The golden stairs —
•  Overboard —
•  Gold —
•  Uncle Tanner weakens —
•  About this book---
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• http://employment.education.uiowa.edu/beuning/07e161folder/transformationassignment.htm

http://www.eduplace.com/activity/past.html

http://www.eduplace.com/activity/4_2_act2.html

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/The-Bite-of-the-Gold-Bug-Novel-Study-Questions-1269503

Read the word in the book and explain it or look it up to really understand it. write a description or paste a picture of it in a journal.

dumpling
impatience
hardware
sharpshooters
handlebar mustache
claim of land
outfitted
The North West Mounted Police
Chilkoot Pass
Skagway
Dawson city
Lake Bennet
Yukon River
Stampeders
The Seattle Post Intelligencer
Roomers
Sitting Room
Territory
mosquitos
hummingbirds
grizzly bear
fifty cent piece
four bits
waterfront
steamshio
stowing
lifeboat
harmonica
Puget Sound
Vancouver island
shack
barges
tide flats
Parlor
Dyea River
canyon
Scales
Golden Stairs
Klondike 
moccasins
flapjacks
spectacles
summit
Norwegian
boiling simmer rapids
sluice box
trough
ribs/riffles
fat iron stove
frostbite
kerosene
hardtack
poke