Teach Jack London’s To Build a Fire with three editable PowerPoint lessons (42 slides) on the Yukon setting, instinct and reason, and literary naturalism.

• Setting the Yukon (13 slides). Introduce the Klondike Gold Rush and read London’s opening line closely. Students explain why the traveller’s lack of imagination matters in extreme cold.
• Instinct Versus Reason (14 slides). Compare how the man and the dog read the same dangers, then trace how the decision to build a fire under a spruce tree creates the story’s turning point.
• The Struggle for Survival (15 slides). Follow the man’s response after the fire goes out and use the dog’s departure to discuss nature’s indifference. A final prompt asks students to consider how technology can foster overconfidence outdoors.

Includes three separate PPTX files with on-slide comprehension checks and model responses. Have copies of the story available for students.