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Penguin Publishing

Penguin Random House: A Teacher's Guide to "The Call of the Wild" [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Vocabulary, classroom activities, background information and other features are available in this 17 page .pdf guide.
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Shmoop University

Shmoop: The Call of the Wild

For Students 9th - 10th
This fascinating site on Jack London's famous novel The Call of the Wild is looked at in detail in this site that includes character anaylsis and a discussion of themes in the novel.
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PBS

Pbs Nova: Wild Wolves

For Students 9th - 10th
What's in a wolf's howl -- a calling card, a warning, or an invitation? Hear the call of the wild, find out how wolves are making a comeback, and discover the ancient connection between dogs and wolves in this feature exhibit.
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: The Call of the Wild by Jack London

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the full text of "The Call of the Wild" by Jack London set during the Klondike Gold Rush. The central character is a dog named Buck who is stolen from his home and sold into service as a sled dog in Alaska.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Calls of the Wild: Flies and Stereo

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Explore the characteristics of binaural hearing and discover how two ears are utilized in determining the direction of a sound's origin. Produce auditory illusions by reversing and extending the detection site for each ear.
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Open Library of the Internet Archive

Open Library: The Call of the Wild

For Students 9th - 10th
This ebook version of Jack London's The Call Of The Wild has been made available in multiple formats by the Open Library. Editions of the full novel, organized by year of publication, may be accessed here.
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Capo Creations: "The Call of the Wild" Study Guide

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Chapter-by-chapter study questions, vocabulary and enrichment suggestions are offered at this website.
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Jack London

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lesson plans, e-notes, activities, and other resources are provided for teaching young scholars reading Jack London's The Call of the Wild and his other works.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Showing Creative Problem Solving

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
After reading excerpts in which Buck solves a problem in Jack London's The Call of the Wild, students write their own three-paragraph animal stories imitating London's style and word choice. Teacher and student instructions are provided...
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Calls of the Wild: Spider Sounds

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Explore the communication rituals of insects and other arachnids by constructing a device capable of detecting minuscule impacts of cricket feet.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Calls of the Wild: Bats and Echolocation

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Explore bats' navigation systems by experimenting with echolocation. Approximate an object's distance by analyzing reflected sound waves, measuring the delay in sound and calculating the ratio to the speed of sound.
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Authors: Jack London

For Students 9th - 10th
This site features the author Jack London including a biography and the full text of 13 novels, 2 nonfiction pieces, and 130 short stories. His most famous works include "Call of the Wild," "The Sea Wolf," and "White Fang".
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Other

Life of Jack London

For Students 9th - 10th
Information packed site. Includes a lengthy, but interesting biography, theory on the cause of his death, his works, pictorial, and more.
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Sonoma State University

Berkeley Digital Library: The Red One

For Students 9th - 10th
Short story collection from 1918, including a haunting novella entitled "The Red One". Check out this site.
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Sonoma State University

Berkeley: Rise and Fall of Jack London

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides a bibliographical essay. Includes the stages of receptiveness from the public, i.e. golden age, bronze age, iron age, etc.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Realism: "To Build a Fire" by Jack London

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on the short story "To Build a Fire" by Jack London which provides a good example of Naturalism, the relationship between man and nature. It features links to a PDF study guide and an online copy of the text. After...
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Sonoma State University

Berkeley Education: The Sea Wolf

For Students 9th - 10th
The actual text to the work by Jack London, with click on links, chapter-by-chapter at this site from Berkeley Education. There is also a concordance to click on to help with research.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Voice of Nationalism: One Hundred Years of Irish Theater

For Students 9th - 10th
The emphasis is on the beginnings of the Abbey Theater. The selection discusses Yeats' contributions to the establishment of the theater, some of the movements and more current writers under what is called the "Celtic Revival."
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Sonoma State University

Berkeley Education: List of Works by Jack London

For Students 9th - 10th
Superb site from Berkeley Education for finding any work by Jack London. Included are plays, short stories, fiction, non-fiction, and essays.
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Other

A Thousand Deaths by Jack London

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is from Gaslight of the Mt. Royal College. The site is an internet discussion list that reviews one story a week from all sorts of genres. This particular site provides a short story penned by Jack London during his college years.
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Sonoma State University

Berkeley Education: Jack London Biography

For Students 9th - 10th
An excellent biographical account, with much information not found in other renditions. Lots of interesting details!
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Sonoma State University

Berkeley Digital Library: Dutch Courage

For Students 9th - 10th
Berkeley Digital Library provides this collection of early works published after Jack London's death. It has a preface by his wife.
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Nobel Media AB

The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Literature 2000

For Students 9th - 10th
This website on Gao Xingjian, the recipient of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Literature, provides a multimedia experience through videos, primary texts, and images.
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Other

Wild Geese: General Michael Corcoran

For Students 9th - 10th
A five-part article about Michael Corcoran, an Irish immigrant who volunteered when Lincoln first issued a call for troops. Read about his actions at Bull Run, in a Southern prison camp, and his leadership of the Irish Brigade. This...

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