Smoke Jumpers text structure

Smoke Jumpers

simile

• A simile is a sentence that compares using like or as.

• Example: Her hair was red like a fire.

• I love you as deep as the ocean .

• What examples can you think of ?

Find the simile

An airplane circles above Dutch Oven Gulch,

Idaho, at one hundred miles per hour. A man

stands at the open side door of the plane, his

hands firmly gripping the sides. His heart races.

The plane bounces like a yo-yo in the wind; a

fire rages 2,000 feet below. The man waits for

his signal.

Multiple Choice

Which sentence from the passage was a simile

• The plane bounces like a yo-yo in the wind.

• His heart races.

• The man waits for

  his signal.

Problem and solution

• This text has a lot of problems that come up, and a lot of solutions are presented to fix them.

• For example, a wild fire breaks out, smokejumpers come and fight the fire.

What problem is presented in this section?

Smoke jumpers parachute with nothing but a parachute into the wild.

Multiple Choice

What is the problem presented? The smoke jumpers parachute into an area to fight fires with nothing but a parachute and cannot be reached by vehicle.

• They do not have any food or supplies

• They do not have a restroom

• they do not have a way to get out.

Multiple Choice

What sentence is a possible solution to the problem on the last slide?

The boxes contain everything they

need for living and for fighting fire for three days:

chain saws, shovels, Pulaskis (part ax and part hoe),

first-aid kits, food, and water. If they have to stay

longer, more supplies will be dropped in. The jumpers

unpack and get to work.

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• The boxes contain everything they need to survive.

• The jumpers unpack and get to work.

Multiple Choice

According to this sentence, Why are smoke jumpers sent to fight fires?

But why not reach the fire from the

ground? Why jump into it? “There is a rule

that says the closest available resources must

respond to a fire. That’s often the

smokejumpers,” says Withen. A fire truck

thirty miles away from a wildfire could take

an hour or more to reach the blaze. Airplanes

are much faster. “Even if we are one hundred

miles away, we can be working on that fire

within thirty-five minutes,” says Withen.

• A fire truck could be 30 miles away.

• They are often the closest to where a remove fire is.

• Airplanes are much faster.

• all of the answers.

Open Ended

What does a smoke jumper do?

Open Ended

Would you want to be a smoke jumper why or why not?