Study Guide for Where the Red Fern Grows 6Th ELA Name

Study Guide for Where the Red Fern Grows 6th ELA Name:

Chapters I-III, pp. 11-30

The adult narrator saves a ______ from a pack of dogs.
After he washes it, feeds it, and treats its wounds, he ______.
The adult narrator lives in the Snake River Valley in ______.
The experience causes the narrator to remember an old ______can and ______. This causes him to flashback to an earlier time in his life.
He remembers how much he wanted a ______when he was ten years old; specifically, he wanted ______.
His father said he had no ______to buy him one.
His mother said he was too ______to go hunting .
When he was ten, his home was in a beautiful valley far back in the rugged ______. Their farm was on land allotted to his mother because she was part ______.
His father knows how much his son wants to hunt, so he finally buys him three traps. The first thing he caught in the trap was ______.
When he is almost eleven, he started helping his father in the fields. One day he went to a campground where some fishermen had camped and found a sportsman’s magazine which would change his life. It had an ad for registered redbone coon hound pups for $_____each.
He decides that he can order the pups if he sells crawfish, minnows, and fresh vegetables to the fishermen and picks berries and traps in the winter to sell things at his ______.
Two years later, when he is thirteen, he finally has his $50, so he goes to his ______to ask him to order the dogs. He learns that the price has come down to $______for the two.

Chapters IV-VI, pp. 31-54

He has to wait for the kennel to ship his dogs; when he learns that they can be picked up, he doesn’t want to wait to catch a ride to the railway station. He packs food, matches, and a gunny sack and sets out to walk ______miles to the station to pick them up.
When he reaches town, he stops in front of a store window and sees a reflection of himself. He then decides to go inside to buy gifts for his family. He purchases______for his father, ______for his mother and sisters, and a large sack of ______.
On his way to the depot to get the dogs, he hides his purchases, then walks by a ______.
When the bell rings to end recess, he decides to try the ______.
Next, he goes to the depot where he finds the pups in a crate. He opens the crate and lifts them out and the stationmaster helps him put them in the______.
On his way out of town, a gang of boys pull the ear of his little girl pup, then fight him, but the ______ saves him.
Before he goes on, the marshal buys him a ______, then he stops to pick up the gifts.
On his long walk home the pups sleep, then he finds a______ to spend the night in, builds a fire, cooks food for the dogs and himself, then falls asleep.
Rawls uses figurative language to relate the next experience. He describes the glowing red body of ______, the dark and silent surroundings, and the chill of the night air.
Next he describes the high pitch of the scream that shattered the silence of the quiet night. He uses a simile to describe how the sound “rang like a blacksmith’s anvil against the rock walls” to describe the scream of the ______.
When he is almost home, he realizes he has not named his dogs. He sees two names carved in a heart on a tree. He likes them, so he calls his dogs ______and ______.
His father says that he some day he hopes to be able to move his family to______. They have to wait until there is enough ______to do so.

Chapters VII-VIII, pp. 55-78

The narrator realizes that he needs a ______ to train his dogs.
Grandfather tells him that he will have to catch his coon by putting ______on the ground and ____in his trap designed with horseshoe nails. He said that once he had the object in his paw that nothing would make him let it go.
Catching a coon is not easy; Billy has a long wait before he catches the coon. When he finally finds one in a trap, Old Dan tries to get the coon. Little Ann runs in to help him by sinking her teeth into ______.
The narrator saves his dogs and goes to get his father to help him kill the coon. They find that he still had the______clutched in his paw.
The narrator spends the summer training his dogs for coon hunting, teaching them all the tricks of the coon. One thing that they found difficult at first was ______.
Hunting season finally opens, and Billy’s______ is worried about his going out alone at night to hunt.
His first coon chooses a giant sycamore tree to climb. Billy begins chopping it down because he had ______ and wanted to keep his word.

WORDS TO KNOW (You will need to recognize the definition of all and an example for the last two.)

Flashback – an interruption in a story that gives information about the past

Foreshadowing – the use of clues or hints to let the reader know what may happen

Simile – a comparison between to unlike objects using “like” or “as” (as thin as a bean pole)

Alliteration – the repetition of initial consonant sounds (Peter Piper picked. . .)

On the space below, please draw a picture from something from the first 8 chapters.

Chapters IX-X, pp. 79-100

Billy’s ______ arrives and helps him make a scarecrow so that Billy can get some rest and food.
The narrator then uses an allusion to the Biblical end of time when he says, “. . . I wouldn’t blame that coon if he stayed in the tree until ______blew his horn.”
After Billy’s hands start to blister, he prays for strength to finish the job; suddenly a breeze comes up and ______.
His dogs capture the coon, and he takes it home. ______helps him skin it.
His mother makes him a ______ out of his first hide.
The price for coonskins rises with the popularity of the coats; each brings from $___to $____.
Billy gives all the money he earns to ______.
Once when Little Ann had an injured foot, Billy locked her in a corncrib and tried to hunt with just Old Dan; he found that Old Dan would not hunt without ______. Billy never tried, but he felt that Little Ann would have hunted without Old Dan since she was so smart.
On one of the hunts, Old Dan falls into an ______. Little Ann finds him and tries to dig him out. Billy has to run home to get a shovel to get him out.
After he gets Old Dan out, the dogs insist that he also get ______ out of the same hole.
Another interesting experience Old Dan had was climbing ______ to get to a coon on a branch.

On the space below, please complete

the circle map for

characteristics

of Billy. Use at

least 10 specific

adjectives.

Chapters XI-XII, pp. 101-21

Chapter 11 begins with a description of a snowstorm and Billy’s hunt in the snow. He uses two similes to show how bad the weather was. He says that the blizzard left the ground “as ______” and that trapped indoors he was as nervous “as a ______.”
On the hunt that night, Little Ann falls into the ice-covered ______; Billy has to ______to get her out. He realized that he could make a _____ from the handle of his lantern; he ties it to a pole with his shoe lace and uses it to hook her collar and pull her out of the water.
He warms her by wrapping her in ______, building a fire for warmth with some of the kerosene from his lantern, and rubbing her while Old Dan licked her.
Billy’s mama needs corn meal, and Billy’s father is busy, so he asks Billy to shell a sack of corn to take to his ______.
While he is at the store, he sees the two Pritchard boys whose names are ______and ______.
The younger one wants to make a bet with Billy. He wants to bet _____ that Billy’s hounds cannot tree the ghost coon.
______gives Billy $2 to make the bet.

Chapters XIII-XIV, pp. 122-47

The ghost coon is called that because he seems to ______.
The ghost coon really tries to outwit the dogs, but Little Ann finally finds him inside an old ______.
Billy decides that the old ghost coon has been around so long that he doesn’t want to ______.
Another animal joins them; it is ______, the Pritchard’s dog.
Rubin threatens to hurt Billy, then the dogs start fighting. Little Ann goes to the aid of Old Dan, and he fights the dog. When Rubin runs toward the dogs with an ax to kill Billy’s dogs, he trips on a twig and falls on the ______.
Billy pulls his dogs off of Old Blue and ties them to a barbed wire fence with a piece of the barbed wire. He then sees that Rubin had fallen on the ax. Rubin begs him to pull the ax out of him. When he does, Rubin’s blood gushes out; and he______.
When he gets home, he wakes his parents and tells them what has happened. His father goes to get ______to take him to the body so that they can move it.
Billy goes to his room after his mother tells him once again that he cannot have a gun. He notices a ______ that his sisters had given him for Decoration Day. He takes them to ______.
Grandpa sends for Billy because he wants Billy to enter a contest. He tells Billy that he feels that Rubin’s death was his fault (grandfather’s) because he gave Billy the ______.
The name of the contest is the ______.
Grandpa has been working for ______to get Old Dan and Little Ann entered into the contest. He had to provide a record of all the coonskins Billy’s dogs had caught. He has already paid the ______.
The phrase “Grandpa flew out of gear like a Model-T Ford” is an example of a ______.
Grandpa says that they will go to the contest in his ______.
Grandpa also tells Billy to invite his______ to come along. Everyone talks him into doing so.
Billy helps get his mother ready for the men to be gone. He chops ______and creates a box and fills it with ______for the horse.
“Old Red, our rooster” is an example of ______.
When he gets in the wagon to go to the contest, he sees that his grandfather has cleaned up his _____.

Note: Be sure to know alliteration, simile, and personification for the test.

Chapters XV-XVI, pp. 148-69

Billy plans to feed his dogs some cornmeal mush, but Grandpa insists that he give them ______.
Billy really feels grown up when Grandpa pours him a cup of______.
Billy hears two screech owls which foreshadows an accident. Billy is very worried, but Grandpa tells him not to ______.
When they arrive in the camp, there are many more ______than they had imagined would be there.
After Billy helps set up their camp, he walks around and overhears people talking about ______.
There is an early contest for the best looking dog, and ______ wins it and wins a silver cup.
There are twenty-five pairs of dogs in the competition, and Billy draws the ______ night for his turn.
Billy gets permission to hunt in a fresh area, and the judge goes with them. His dogs tree the first coon, and his father shoots at it with birdshot. The coon jumps, and the dogs get it. Grandpa has all kinds of trouble. He loses his hat and glasses and has to have help finding his glasses, then he slips on the wet rocks and falls into the river. They kill the second coon, then stop to dry Grandpa’s clothes. Old Dan and Little Ann then get the scent of a third coon, and they catch it. The third one was tricky; he leaped from ______to ______to try to get away.
Billy’s dogs were one of the ______ sets of dogs in the final round.
The hunters in the campground collect money to give as a jackpot to the winner. One of them says that they hope ______wins it.
The night of the final round Billy chooses to go back to the swamp where they caught their third coon. Little Ann catches the scent of a coon quickly, and they follow it to the ______ where they fight with it, then chase it back to the sycamore to catch it.
The dogs then ______each other’s wounds.

Chapters XVII-XVIII, pp. 170-90

After they catch the first coon, Papa thinks there is going to be a ______.
Then ______ begins to fall, making the ground slick and white.
The wind of the storm makes it almost impossible to hear the dogs. Billy refuses to leave them in the woods since he knows that Old Dan would never leave a treed coon. When they finally locate Old Dan who is ice-covered, but staying by his treed coon, they realize that ______ is missing.
Little Ann finds him, but he is unconscious because he has hurt his ______. They rub him and wake him, then build a fire to keep him warm while one of them goes for help. Grandpa insists that they wait until daylight so that the person going back can see where he is going. He tells Billy to go get the______ while they wait.
Papa decided to cut the hollow tree where the coon was down for firewood. ______ come out of it. Old Dan catches one, and Little Ann catches the other.
When the storm ends, they hear voices. The men from camp have been looking for them. They tell Billy that he will have to have ______ coonskins to win the competition.
One of the men arrives late; he has just seen Billy’s ______ dogs. They are alive, but they refuse to leave the treed coon.
After they thaw the dogs, they frighten the coon out of the tree; and Billy gets his fourth skin. When they get back to camp, almost everyone has left because of the blizzard. Grandfather is in the tent, and the doctor who was in the camp is with him. The hunter who had collected the jackpot brings it to Billy. It has over ______ in it.
Billy gives the money to his ______.
The judge gives Billy a ______ for his first-place win.
The doctor takes Grandpa home in his car, and Billy and his father take the buggy back. When they get home, he gives the ______ to his older sisters and the ______ to his youngest sister who had asked for it.
They learn that Grandpa’s foot is going to heal, then Papa gives Mama the box of ______.

Chapters XIX-XX, pp. 191-212

Winning the championship did not keep Billy from hunting. One night, however, his dogs tree an unusual animal. Billy figures that it is a bobcat. He knew that his dogs could defeat it, but it was useless to him since the hide had no value. He moves in to try to grab Old Dan’s collar and get him away and sees that the animal is a ______. It springs from the tree, and Old Dan leaps and meets it in the air. Little Ann goes to his aid. Billy joins the fight with his ax. When the lion turns on Billy, the dogs get between it and him. Billy finally wedges his ______in the back of the lion, killing it. He is able to get Little Ann loose fairly easily, but Old Dan won’t release his hold. Billy has to use his ax to pry his locked jaws open.
Old Dan has a mortal injury. His ______ work their way through his wound and get tangled in a bush. Billy cleans them the best he can and pushes them back into the wound.
Knowing that he will have to carry Old Dan home, he wraps the dog in his coat and leaves his ______and______ behind.
When he gets home, he awakens his parents, and his mother washes Old Dan’s entrails in soapy water, then puts them back in and sews them up. Little Ann was easier to treat. That night ______ dies.
Little Ann misses her partner so much that she stops ______.
She drags herself to the grave of ______ to die.
Papa shows them that the money the dogs earned will now let them ______.
The following spring they leave the______.
Billy goes to say good-bye to his dogs and finds a ______growing between their graves.
An old Indian legend said that a little Indian boy and a little Indian girl were lost in a blizzard and froze to death. In the spring, they found a red fern growing between their two bodies. The legend says that only an ______ could plant the seeds of the red fern, so it made the spot sacred.
The flashback is over, and the story ends with the narrator once again in Idaho as an adult, wishing he could go once again to the beautiful hills of the ______.