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Dogsong by Gary Paulsen
Part 2: The Dreamrun
Chapter 12
Vocabulary.
1. adopt (p 131) a. passed out, immobile
2. advantage (p 133) b. to follow a course of action
3. incline (p 133) c. a slope of ramp
4. submission (p 133) d. signal
5. unconscious (p 135) e. accepting someone else’s authority
6. companion (p 135) f. something that puts you in the lead
7. indication (p 136) g. traveling partner
Use the vocabulary words correctly in the sentences from the novel.
1. “It took much heaving, pulling on the feet, to get the
person into the lean-to.”
2. “Russel let the dogs a slower trot, but he kept them
going steadily, watching the tracks ahead.”
3. “There was no from the woman-girl at all.”
4. “At length Russel sensed that they were going up a slight
not a hill so much as a gradual upgrade.”
5. “The only they had was that the storm was
almost straight out of the north.”
6. “When it (the lamp) was going at last and he could feel some heat coming from
it he turned to his .”
7. “He … threatened to come up to the unseen dogs and beat them into
Comprehension Questions.
1. When Russel found the snowmachine, what concerned him about the size of the footprints?
2. Do you think the dream had anything to do with Russel’s determination to push ahead through the storm to find the person?
3. What words do you think Russel used “instead of a whip” to encourage the dogs?
4. How were the dogs, once again, smarter than Russel?
5. What surprised Russel about the person he found?
6. What did Russel do that the woman in the dream had done?
Dogsong by Gary Paulsen
Part 2: The Dreamrun
Chapter 12
Vocabulary.
1. adopt (p 131) a. passed out, immobile
2. advantage (p 133) b. to follow a course of action
3. incline (p 133) c. a slope of ramp
4. submission (p 133) d. signal
5. unconscious (p 135) e. accepting someone else’s authority
6. companion (p 135) f. something that puts you in the lead
7. indication (p 136) g. traveling partner
Use the vocabulary words correctly in the sentences from the novel.
1. “It took much heaving, pulling on the feet, to get the
person into the lean-to.”
2. “Russel let the dogs a slower trot, but he kept them
going steadily, watching the tracks ahead.”
3. “There was no from the woman-girl at all.”
4. “At length Russel sensed that they were going up a slight
not a hill so much as a gradual upgrade.”
5. “The only they had was that the storm was
almost straight out of the north.”
6. “When it (the lamp) was going at last and he could feel some heat coming from
it he turned to his .”
7. “He … threatened to come up to the unseen dogs and beat them into
Comprehension Questions.
1. When Russel found the snowmachine, what concerned him about the size of the footprints?
2. Do you think the dream had anything to do with Russel’s determination to push ahead through the storm to find the person?
3. What words do you think Russel used “instead of a whip” to encourage the dogs?
4. How were the dogs, once again, smarter than Russel?
5. What surprised Russel about the person he found?
6. What did Russel do that the woman in the dream had done?