Name:
Listening Guide – Touching Spirit Bear
Quote from the
Book
Type of Figurative
Language
Cole thought back to
all the people at
home who had tried
to help him over the
years. He hated their
fake concern.
Flashback
What does the author want to
accomplish by using this figurative
language? What is the impact on the
text and/or reader? Why did the
author use these words?
Wants to give the reader background
information for Cole by imbedding it in
the text – gain an understanding of how
Cole is feeling toward people around him
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Symbolism
1
Page
#
Pg.
5
Listening Guide – Touching Spirit Bear
Idiom
Life Lesson
Evidence/Explanation
Perspective
Honesty
Respect
Gentleness
2
Listening Guide – Touching Spirit Bear
Vocabulary Work:
Choose two words from the list. Copy the sentence from the text. Write a definition for the word in your own
words using the context clues in the sentence. (defiantly pg. 3, torrents pg. 77, grudgingly pg. 15, haphazard
pg. 75, sparse pg. 14, revoked pg. 22, moseyed pg. 16, ignited pg. 22)
1. Word:
Sentence from the book:
Your Definition:
2. Word:
Sentence from the book:
Your Definition:
Piece of Dialogue:
Who is speaking to
whom?
Does this quote move
the action forward? Tell
us something about a
character? Provoke a
decision?
“Keep staring. I’ll kill you.”
“I ever see you again, you’re
dead.”
Cole to the Spirit
Bear
Moves the action
forward
“Are you okay?”
Cole to baby birds
3
How does the quote do this
(from column 3)?