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The King of Mazy May

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(pages 52–68)

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In studying this text, you will focus on the following objectives:

Literary Study: Analyzing plot.

Reading: Visualizing parts of the story.

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Meet Jack London

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Click the picture to learn about the author.

Author Search For more about Jack London, go to glencoe.com and enter QuickPass code GL19756u1.

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Think about a time when someone was being treated badly and you had an opportunity to help.

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Connect to the Story

Partner Talk With a partner, discuss whether you would help someone if risks were involved. Would you get involved if it was the right thing to do?

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Build Background In 1896 gold was discovered in the Klondike, a remote wilderness area of northwestern Canada, near Alaska. Thousands set out to strike it rich. Perhaps they would have stayed home if they had known the following:

•  They would risk their lives to carry tons of needed equipment across steep, frozen mountain passes.

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Build Background •  Local people had already claimed

most of the gold.

•  The gold that remained was ten feet below permanently frozen ground.

Most fortune-seekers found only hardship—if they were lucky enough to survive!

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endured v. underwent hardship without giving up; put up with (p. 55). To finish the marathon, Maria endured heat, aching muscles, and exhaustion.

Click a vocabulary term to listen to the definition.

industrious adj. hardworking (p. 56). Erin, an industrious student, had the highest score on the test. adjoining adj. located next to; adjacent (p. 56). We heard voices coming from the adjoining room.

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evidently adv. clearly, apparently, obviously (p. 57). Jon was evidently excited because he couldn’t stop fidgeting.

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floundering v. to move with stumbling motions; struggle awkwardly or clumsily (p. 63). The horses were floundering in the deep mud.

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Set Purposes for Reading

As you read, ask yourself, is it possible for a person of any age to be a hero?

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The plot is the sequence of events in a story. The plot starts with exposition, which introduces the characters, setting, and situation.

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The rising action adds complications to the story’s problems, or conflicts, and leads to the climax, which is the point of greatest interest or suspense. The falling action shows what happens as a result of the climax, and the resolution presents the final outcome.

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Recognizing the parts of a plot can help you follow the order of events in a story and make sense of what you read.

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As you read, think about how each new problem faced by the main character adds to the suspense of the story.

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To visualize means to picture a scene that is described in a story.

Visualize

Visualizing brings a story to life. It is a useful and effective way to understand and remember what you read.

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To visualize parts of the story,

Set Purposes for Reading Visualize

•  pay attention to descriptive words that the writer uses to appeal to senses of sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell

•  use your imagination to form mental images of events and places in the story

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What pictures do the details in the story create in your mind? As you read, you may find it helpful to use a graphic organizer like the one below.


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Visualize Think about a time when a friend described every detail about something, such as a new puppy—his fuzzy, brown coat, wet nose, stubby tail, and patch of white fur over his eye. Did you form a picture of the puppy in your mind?


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Visualize Read the excerpt highlighted in blue on page 54. How does this description help you imagine the setting of the story?

Answer: Possible response: It helps me imagine a frozen, desolate land.


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In the 1800s, the prospect of land and wealth brought about the settlement of the American West. The Homestead Act of 1862 gave land to anyone who lived on it and farmed it for a certain period of time. Gold rushes lured many west, hoping to strike it rich.


Cultural History

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Plot Read the first excerpt highlighted in purple on page 55. What are your first impressions of Walt?

Answer: Possible response: Walt is courageous and a good person.


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Look at the image on page 55. Moccasins are shoes with a sole and no heel, usually made from one piece of leather.


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roots The verb endured contains the Latin root dur, or “hard.” It appears in some words students may know: An athlete with endurance can stand long workouts. A durable fabric is sturdy and strong. Those who endure survive hardship.

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Plot Read the second excerpt highlighted in purple on page 55. What sets the newcomers apart from the men who live on the Mazy May?

Answer: They are staking claims unfairly after others have done the hard work.


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To help you understand “claim jumping,” I need a volunteer to come forward and turn his or her back to the class. I need another volunteer to sneak into the vacated desk.


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Visualize Read the excerpt highlighted in blue on page 56. What do you see in your mind when you imagine Loren Hall’s accident?

Answer: You may imagine the face of a startled man as ice suddenly breaks beneath him, plunging his feet into freezing water. No one is around to help him.


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Plot Read the excerpt highlighted in purple on page 56. What is the new complication to the plot?

Answer: The claim-jumpers may be able to register Loren Hall’s claim before he can. Loren is old, and his weakened state will slow him down.


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Plot Read the excerpt highlighted in purple on page 57. How might this fact change the plot?

Answer: Walt might feel more urgency to stop them, because they are so close to his own cabin.


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Plot What do the strangers want?

Answer: to steal land and gold


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Plot What do you already know about the claims near Walt’s cabin?

Answer: Hall’s claim is unregistered, so it is vulnerable to claim jumpers.


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Multiple-Meaning Words You maybe more familiar with mint as a flavor or a plant. The word also refers to a place that manufactures coins and paper money. The two meanings have different roots.

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Visualize Read the excerpt highlighted in blue on page 57. To which sense does this image appeal?

Answer: hearing


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The setting of many of Jack London’s writings is the unforgiving, hardscrabble world of the Klondike. Those of you who are interested in London’s wilderness adventures may also enjoy The Call of the Wild or White Fang, as well as the short story “To Build a Fire.”


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Look at the painting on page 58. What do you think the man is weighing? How important is the measurement?

Answer: The men are probably weighing nuggets of gold. The measurement is very important because it determines how much the gold is worth.


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Visualize Read the excerpt highlighted in blue on page 59. Can you picture what the claim-jumpers are looking at?

Answer: They are looking at gold flecks that have separated from the black sand in the pan.


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Read the excerpt highlighted in tan on page 59. What heroic qualities does Walt have?

Answer: Walt has a fine sense of justice. He is protective of those who cannot fend for themselves. He takes his responsibility to look after Hall’s claim very seriously.


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Plot Read the excerpt highlighted in purple on page 59. How does this increase the tension of the plot?

Answer: Now that the claim-jumpers know about Walt. They will probably do everything they can to stop him.


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Plot Read the excerpt highlighted in purple on page 60. What does this tell you about the claim-jumpers and their determination?

Answer: They are serious about stopping Walt, even if it means harming him.


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Read the excerpt highlighted in tan on page 61. What does Walt’s reasoning reveal about him?

Answer: Walt thinks ahead. He doesn’t want to be caught off guard.


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Visualize Read the excerpt highlighted in blue on page 61. What image helps you picture the Yukon?

Answer: You will probably say the image of “a great white sea of frozen stillness.”


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Visualize Read the excerpt highlighted in blue on page 62. What helps you picture the trail?

Answer: Possible answer: The words glassy and glare give me the idea that the trail was so icy that it looked like a mirror.


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Plot Read the excerpt highlighted in purple on page 62. How important is the environment to the plot?

Answer: The extreme cold of the Yukon is a conflict, or opposing force, that is as important as the claim jumpers to the plot.


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Look at the painting on page 62. Compare the men in this painting with the stampeders.

Answer: You may say that, like the stampeders, the men in the painting are not packed for a long camping trip. They look to be traveling light to increase their speed.


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Plot Read the excerpt highlighted in purple on page 63. What effect might this have on Walt?

Answer: Walt knows he must hurry, but he knows exactly where the men are.


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Visualize Read the excerpt highlighted in blue on page 63. Why does London describe the men as “a black speck of motion”?

Answer: London describes them this way to show how far away they are and that they are dwarfed by the vastness of the landscape.


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Plot Read the excerpt highlighted in purple on page 64. Why do the shots miss Walt?

Answer: They miss Walt because the sleds are moving and bouncing, it is night, and the shots have to travel a great distance.


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Have you seen an action movie in which the hero magically avoids getting shot. Do you think Walt’s escape is believable? Why?

Answer: Answers will vary.


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Visualize Read the excerpt highlighted in blue on page 65. What picture do the words “runners of his sled fairly screaming” help you create in your mind?

Answer: You may say it helps you to visualize the great speed at which Walt is traveling and to imagine the high-pitched sound of the runners as they travel over the ice.


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Plot Read the excerpt highlighted in purple on page 65. How would you characterize the action at this point compared to what has come before?

Answer: It is falling action now, whereas it was rising action before. No one is chasing Walt anymore.


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Read the excerpt highlighted in tan on page 65. How has Walt, a young boy, become a hero to the men who live on the Mazy May?

Answer: Because Walt is brave and a good person who stands up for his neighbor against stronger opponents, he wins the respect of the men.


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Answer: The five stampeders are trying to jump claims that belong to others so they can come back and pan for the gold themselves.

Respond and Think Critically

1. What are the five stampeders trying to do? [Recall]

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2. Briefly state how Walt protects his neighbor’s claim. [Summarize]

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Answer: Walt takes the claim-jumpers dogsled and races seventy miles to Dawson to file his neighbor’s claim ahead of the claim jumpers.

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3. Walt’s father asked him to keep an eye on his neighbor’s claim. Why do you think his father trusted him with this task? [Interpret]

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Answer: Walt’s father knows that Walt has survival skills and is very responsible.

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4. Does Walt feel justified in taking the sled and the dogs and using violence? Do you think his actions are justified? Explain. [Analyze]

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Answer: Walt feels justified. Most will probably agree, because the men were trying to steal claims.

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5. Jack London once declared, “The proper function of man is to live, not exist. ” Explain how Walt carries out the author’s idea before he even becomes a man. [Conclude]

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Answer: Walt takes great risks in fighting for what he believes in—that is, living actively rather than existing.

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TIP: Concluding

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Remember, when you conclude, you form ideas about what you are reading. You make a decision about what you’re reading.

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•  Think about the difference in meaning between the terms to live and to exist.

•  Compare Walt’s actions with London’s statement.

•  Think about how Walt’s actions might be different if he had only been “existing.”

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6. Think about the word king and why Walt is eventually called “the King of Mazy May.” What qualities make him heroic to the people who live on the Mazy May? Do you think Walt is heroic? Support your answer with evidence from the story. [Evaluate]

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Answer: You may say that Walt deserves respect. His bravery, fairness, sense of justice, and concern for others make him a hero. He risks his life to help Loren Hall keep his claim. Some may say Walt is heroic; others, may suggest that he is foolish to risk his life.

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Gold Rushes in the Nineteenth Century In the late nineteenth century, gold attracted people to far-off places. Prospectors gathered in camps that quickly turned into boomtowns. These towns grew so quickly that they didn’t have many laws or rules. Life there could be violent. Some greedy people would stop at nothing to get gold.

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Some boomtowns gradually turned into cities. But many others became ghost towns—settlements where the buildings stand empty and no people remain. Gold often turned out to be scarce after the first discovery. Prospectors simply drifted away from boomtowns after seeing their dreams of wealth disappear.

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When gold was discovered in the Klondike, about 100,000 people headed north, hoping to strike it rich. Several “panics” had shaken the U.S. economy. Many people were desperate for money. But by 1904 most of the surface gold had been mined and the gold boom had ended.

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Group Activity Discuss the following questions with your classmates.

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1. How does the lack of order in boomtowns help you understand the actions of their stampeders? Do you think their actions were justified? Why or why not?

Answer: Possible response: The stampeders took advantage of the lack of law and order in the Klondike to steal from miners. They were not justified in stealing the claims of others, because people like Loren Hall had worked hard to stake and mine their claims.

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2. Which source gives you a better understanding of the hardships miners in the Klondike had to endure: this passage or Jack London’s story? Explain your answer.

Answer: Most of you will probably say that London’s story with its descriptions of the Klondike’s weather, lack of communication, and vastness gives them a better understanding of the miner’s hardships.

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Plot

1. Which sentence gives the best description of how Walt deals with difficult situations?

A. He gets discouraged and gives up easily.

B. He gets angry and resentful.

C. He relies on courage and determination.

D. He relies on others for help.

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Review: Setting

2. Which word best describes the setting of this story?

A. familiar

B. mythical

C. comfortable

D. hostile

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As you learned on page 29, setting is the time and place in which the events of a story occur. Writers show the setting through concrete details and sensory details. Setting often affects plot and characters. For example, many of Walt’s actions are possible and make sense because the story takes place during the Klondike Gold Rush in the late 1800s.

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Review: Setting

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Visualize

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3. Draw a picture of one of the scenes in the story. Do any parts of it look like your classmates’ pictures?

Answer: You should compare pictures to find similarities.

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Visualize

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4. Look back at the chart of details you kept as you read the story. Which details most helped you visualize the setting, characters, and events? Why?

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Answer: Setting—“thousands of square miles of frozen wilderness” Characters—“Walt Masters is not a very large boy, but there is manliness in his make up” Events—“as he cleared the summit of each ice-jam, he stretched flat on the leaping sled”

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Match each boldface vocabulary word with a word from the right column that has the same meaning. Two of the words in the right column will not have matches. Then use each vocabulary word in a sentence or draw or find a picture that represents the word.

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Example: endured Sentence: The mountain climber endured freezing cold and bitter wind in order to reach the top.

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__ 1. endured __ 2. industrious __ 3. adjoining __ 4. evidently __ 5. floundering

a. hardworking b. distant c. obviously d. next door e. tough f. survived g. stumbling

f. a. d. c. g.

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1. endured

Sentence: Possible sentence: Settlers endured uncomfortable travel in covered wagons.

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2.  industrious

Sentence: Possible sentence: The manager needs industrious people to work this summer.

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3.  adjoining

Sentence: Possible sentence: From the adjoining room, we heard cheers.

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4.  evidently

Sentence: Possible sentence: Evidently the runner is fast; she won the race.

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5.  floundering

Sentence: Possible sentence: During the speech, I was floundering for the right word.

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Walt shows that he is as reliable as an adult. In the preceding sentence, reliable means “dependable and responsible.” Think about someone you know who is reliable. What makes this person reliable? How do the person’s actions reflect this trait?

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Respond Through Writing Research Report

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In this assignment, you will focus on the following objectives:

Writing: Summarizing and reporting story events.

Grammar: Understanding correct use of the literary present tense.

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Report Story Events In “The King of Mazy May,” Walt goes on a terrifying journey to help his neighbor. In a few paragraphs, write a report that tells about the main events. Include Loren Hall’s situation, the problems Walt faces along the way, the actions Walt takes, and the outcome.


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Understand the Task A report is one way to communicate knowledge. You will want to summarize, or only retell the main events of the story, in your report. Write your report using present tense verbs.


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Prewrite Start by identifying the story’s main events. Arrange them in order on a time line like the one below.


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Draft Make a plan before you write. How will you divide your report into paragraphs? If you write three paragraphs, you might want to devote one paragraph to the events in the beginning of the story, one to the middle, and one to the end. After you figure out your plan, show your paragraph divisions on your time line.


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Revise After you have written your first draft, read it to make sure you have included all the important events. Did you begin with a clear thesis statement or purpose? Are events in the correct order? Did you leave out any key information? Are any parts unclear? Could someone who has not read the story understand your report? Did you summarize in the present tense? Revise your text as necessary.


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Edit and Proofread Proofread your paper, correcting any errors in spelling, grammar, and punctuation. Review the Grammar Tip on the following slides for information on present tense verbs.


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Verb tense shows the time at which the action takes place. Remember that switching from one verb tense to another can be confusing for the reader. When you summarize fictional story events, use the literary present tense.


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This means you write as if the events are happening now. For example, you might begin a summary like the one on the next slide:


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At the beginning of “The King of Mazy May,” Walt spies on five newcomers, suspecting they are professional stampeders. Look through the story to find other examples of story events that you would summarize using the literary present tense.


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Why is it that some people help and others do not when they see someone in trouble? Is it ever better not to help? Why?

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My article was in last week’s newspaper.

It described my family’s life during our country’s civil war.

My parents’ and teachers’ praise made me feel very proud.


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While I was writing the directions for making my special sandwich, my stomach was grumbling.

I have learned not to write about food when I am hungry.

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