Dig deeper with Discussion Guides. The questions are suitable for student discussion or book reports, individual reflection, family or intergenerational conversations, and Book Clubs.

Bush Pilot Doctor Book

Discussion Guide for Prescription for Adventure: Bush Pilot Doctor

Sample Questions:

  1. What comes to you mind when you think of "adventure"?
  2. Is your life an adventure? Yes? How? No? Why not?
  3. What disease was epidemic in Alaska during the early 1900s? What diseases are prevalent in the world today? If you could eliminate one disease, what would it be? Why?

Prescripton for Finding Home in Alaska

Discussion Guides for Prescription for Finding Home in Alaska

Sample Questions:

  1. Ruby coped with lack of conveniences. Some of these occurred because of life in the 1950s and others because of remoteness. Identify the lack of conveniences, i.e. dryer, TV, email, etc. Which would be most disconcerting for you? Explain.
  2. If you were a character in the story, how would you have portrayed yourself? Survivor? Victim? Hero? Adventurer? True homesteader? City-boy/girl lost in the wilderness? Nature-lover? Reporter? Other?
  3. What character or personality traits do you have that would have made you adaptable to living in the village of Tanana or homesteading on the Kenai Peninsula?

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Anna Bortel DVD

Discussion Guide for The Alaska Story of Anna Bortel Church

Sample Questions:

  1. Who is your role model for living life fully? What are his/her characteristics?
  2. What was one of the first incidences where Anna stretched herself from her familiar and comfortable way of life?
  3. What Comfort Zones would be challenged if you were to have lived in her situations?