During Reading...

Activity #1

Think back about the questions you answered during the "Before Reading..." activity (#2). Are they correct so far? When you come to Part II of the novel, think about whether you would answer those questions differently now than you did before you began reading this novel. Click here for the chance to revise your predictions!

Activity #2

At one point in the novel (during Part II--Miyax, the girl), a strange thing happens in January to the sky. The book says that "the top of the world began to glow like an eclipse" (page 100). Click here to discover more about auroras through pictures and descriptions. When you have looked at the pictures and read through the site, take out crayons, colored pencils, pastels, or markers, a piece of white paper, and a pencil. Use the pictures on the site as a guide to help you create an aurora of your own on the top half of the paper. Then describe in your own words on the bottom half of the paper what you think it would be like to see an aurora happen right before your eyes. Use complete sentences!

Extra Resource

If you need help figuring out what some of the words in Julie of the Wolves mean, this online glossary of arctic terms might help you out!