John Krakauer tells the story of Christopher McCandless who threw all maps away and embarked on an infamous journey through the West and Southwest after graduating from college in 1991. During the journey and the publication of this book, McCandless became an enigmatic and almost romantically fatalistic character.
Students will have read Into the Wild prior to this module--they will return to the text to do this analysis. In this module, students will use R3 and R5 in concert to examine how Krakauer uses excerpts of McCandless's actual writing as a spine for developing the narrative of the journey. The teacher will use the following rows of the LDC/SCALE rubric to assess the students' writing: Focus, Controlling Idea, Organization, Development.
