Tracker by Gary Paulsen

Chapters 1 - 2

Why is John upset about his grandfather?  What is he being asked to do alone?  Why?

Vocabulary:

ruddy (3)

texture (5)

manure (13)

ritual (16)

Chapters 3 - 4

What are John's grandfather's feelings about hunting?  Why does the family do it?

Vocabulary:

silage (21)

granary (22)

thrum (29)

tallow (30)

Chapters 5 - 6

What does the phrase "think deer" mean?  What does John think about while hunting?

Vocabulary:

assailed (36)

privy (40)

brutal (47)

delibrate (48)

Chapters 7 - 8

Describe how the deer looks when John comes across it.  Why do you think he doesn't shoot?

Vocabulary:

matted (52)

bounds (56)

intermittently (58)

persist (59)

Chapters 9 - 10

Why does John continue to follow the deer?  What does he think might happen or how he might feel?

Vocabulary:

"mortal danger (67)

taint (69)

quivering (77)

stagger (79)

Chapters 11 - 12

How does John's grandfather react to what John did with the doe?

Vocabulary:

halo (81)

heaving (83)

lamely (88)