Jack London (age 9) with his dog
White Fang was enormously popular with my 4th grade students. Enthralled with Jack London’s famous tale of the part-wolf, part Indian sled dog, I think they made connections on many levels with their own uprooted lives and limited, sometimes dangerous options. I like to think that reading this story helped them, in the long run, to better navigate their own tenuous paths.
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Our dog recently took up with two neighbor dogs. All females, they played non-stop for hours. Then unexpectedly the oldest of the group, a scraggly one-eyed cocker mix disappeared. Apparently her owner moved. The other two seem stunned, their play less playful somehow.
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