A I think Morgan is not very

kind because Morgan sent

the owl to wake Jack when he
was asleep.
S I agree that Morgan is not
very kind. Jack said, "Wait,
wait a minute, we'll freeze to
death," and Morgan said, "fear
not." Maybe the children will
freeze and Morgan will not
know it and she will not save
the children.
S Because there's snow, but
the sky is a little light. If it
was winter, the sky would be
black. If it was summer, the
sky would be very light.
A They heard the howling
sound. That made them
feel worried because they
thought the sound was
made by wolves.
A Maybe the sealskin
parkas came from the
animals' fur. Maybe seal
hunter killed some seals
and he made the sealskin
parkas with their fur.
A seal hunter gave
them warm coats, and
took them on his
dogsled.
S It is a good place to A No, there isn't a
live because the wooden door because
temperature inside an they can't find woods
igloo can be 65 degrees in the Arctic.
warmer than the The animals skins are
temperature outside. the door.
It is very warm inside
the igloo.
Why did Annie say they
were poor?
Because they were eaten by
the people and nearly every
part of the seal could be
eaten.

A The seals help the

people because the seals
know the people will die
without them.
Why did Jack think one
of the facts was
pretend?
S Because the seal
hunter says, "sometimes
the polar bear can even
teach people to fly," and
Jack knowsssssss polar
bears cannot fly, so he
thinks that the seal
hunter is pretending.
What did Jack and Annie
learn from the polar bear
cubs?
A Jack and Annie watched
the cubs sliding down the
bank onto the ice-covered
sea. They learned how to
sled on their backs.

What trouble did they

get into? How did they
get out?
The ice started to
break, to crack, so
Jack and Annie could
not go back to the
igloo.
S The ice started to
They watched the
polar bears go onto
the ice, and then
they tried moving
like the polar bears.
A Before that he
thought that that was
impossible.

S Because he feels like

he is a polar bear and
he is flying.

When the seal hunter

said, "polar bears
taught us to fly," he
meant that can be true.
Polars bears taught
people to move on ice,
and when they doWhenthat Jack saw polar bears can fly
before
it looks like they are
flying.
How did Jack know they
should thank the polar
bear spirits?
A Because the polar
bears helped them to
reach the tundra at the
edge of the frozen sea.
The seal hunter taught
Jack, "always thank the
animal spirits," so Jack
knew they should thank
the polar bear spirits.

How did Jack and Annie

try to honor the polar
bear spirits?
How did Jack andAAnnieI think the polar
What
beardid they see
try to honor the polar
understood
bear what after
theythey
were finished
spirits? dancing?
trying to do because when
S First, they bowedtheyand S They the
stopped dancing, saw the sky
said, "we thank you."
polar bear rose up became
on her a giant
Then, Annie and hind
Jack legs and Annieswirldidn't
of red, green,
threw out their arms
, so and and purple
I think the polar bears lights.
twirled around, dancing
were tell them thatThese
theyare
werethe
around in the snow.very happy. northern lights.
...rose up on her hind legs
and lowered her huge head
like she was bowing back to
Do you think the northern lights appeared just then
them.
by accident, or because of the polar bear spirits?
A I think the northern lights appeared because of
the polar bear spirits. The polar bears helped Jack
and Annie, and Jack and Annie thanked the polar
bears, so they had a friendship together and that
made the northern lights.
Why didn't Jack and
Annie freeze to death
after they got lost?
S Because the
seal hunter found
Jack and Annie. He is
a kind person
because at first, he
gave Jack and Annie
two coats, and next
he found Jack and
Annie and helped
them go back to the
igloo, and finally he
figured out they were
lost and went to find
them.
Why do you
think the
seal hunter
didn't tell
them the
answer, if
he already
knew it?
A Because
the seal
hunter
wanted
them to
solve the
riddle by
themselves
.
solved
itself.
What problem did the
children have in A Because he is very
Chapter 9? cold.
S Jack and Annie
wanted to go back to
Frog Creek, and they
went to the tree
house. They gave the
seal hunger their
clothes and stay in
the tree house
wearing only their
pajamas. They didn't
solve the riddle.
Their problem was
they had to solve one
more riddle.
do it one more
They used the
words that they
answered other
riddles with.
They wrote the
first letters and
unscrambled them
to make the word
home.
Falling action:
Now they are