Chris McCandless's life, adventures, and untimely death is the subject of Jon Krakauer's nonfiction work, Into the Wild. A thorough crossword puzzle includes quotes, characters, and key details from the book as clues.

Concepts

reading comprehension, nonfiction, nonfiction texts

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Use as a reading check after various chapters of the book
• Include as an extra credit assignment during a unit on Into the Wild
• Have class members list the textual evidence they used to answer each question on the back of the page

Classroom Considerations

• Crossword clues are recall-level only; resource is helpful as a review activity but not for deeper conversation
• Clues are from various parts of the book, and not in chronological order

Pros

• Includes an answer key
• Quick and simple way to check for understanding

Cons

• None

Common Core

RL.9-10.1 RL.11-12.1