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By Gary Paulsen
Expectations for this Google Document:
1. This document is a portfolio of your comprehension of Hatchet.
2. Please use text citations for all answers. If you cannot back it
up, then your answers may not be strong enough.
3. Use conventions correctly! Spell check your document, ensure
all areas of punctuation and capitalization are correct.
4. Make sure you do not have random spaces between answers
or lack of spaces between answers.
5. Do Not Change The Font!
6. You can always press enter to create more room, the spacing is
not meant to be a limit on how much you can respond with or size!
7. You are responsible for your answers. If I comment on
something, please correct it. Then, resolve the comment.
New Skills: Conflict in Literature, Plot, & Mood
Conflict:
What are the four types of conflict? Add them into the following table! Be sure to add a
heading labeled CONFLICT and a heading labeled EXAMPLES.
Types of conflict
Example
Rocky
Titanic
Jurassic park
Noah
Define Mood:mood is a literary element that evokes certain feelings or vibes in readers
through words and description.
Define Plot: a series of events that form the story in a novel
Plot Chart: Use later for reference to Hatchet. (Bullet points directly below to match)
Review Skills:
Reviewed Skills
Examples
Inferencing
Brian parents got into a divorce and his mom started it she did
not really want to marry him I guess?
Brian found turtle eggs, Brian has dinner. Brian opens up, gets
the transmitter on, Brian gets found. Brian has hatchet, has
rock, FIRE.
Point of view
Characterization
Theme
Chapter 2 Assignment: Create a list of survival supplies you would need in a plane crash and
why you would need them. (Google Doc tables)
Item for Survival
Hatchet/Axe
Reason I Chose It
To get wood.
To sleep in.
Food/water
Backpack
Rope
To climb anything
Chapter 3 Assignment: How did you react to Brians thoughts and actions? Do you think that
he is sensible or unreasonable? Explain your answer.
Brians actions and thoughts are what he thinks. One of his thoughts is he thinks he is gonna
die. He just kept repeating gonna die, gonna die, gonna die. One of his actions was that he was
scared because the plane was crashing. Brian tried to control the plane but he failed. What i
reacted like that he is afraid to land the plane. The only thing that he thought in his head was the
pilot dyeing. The plane landed it the lake and still injured brian. The only place brian was able to
move only with his hands. He was not able to move his leg because of the crash.
Chapter 4 Assignment: Write 5 similes about Brians current state and explain their meaning.
Use a Google Table to do this.
Similes
Meanings
him either late that night or the day after that. That way he wouldnt have to worry about not
being discovered or be left to die. So, in the beginning he had hope. I had positive thinking
once too, it was when I was moving to a new house in Hawaii. I thought I was going to make
some friends when I moved in and I did make some friends and more kids were there than I
expected. This message means that if you think positively good things are more likely to happen
Sometimes if you think bad not so good things will happen.
Chapter 6 Assignment: Pick an example of a flashback in the chapter, summarize it, and
explain how it helps/hurts Brian emotionally.
Brian had a flashback about when he saw these marines that were on some kind of course.
They had to survive for a week out in the desert and it reminded Brian of some ideas of what to
do for survival. That was the good flashback. The bad flashback was that he was very hungry
when he thought about that flashback. The flashback was when the had a big dinner and they
had turkey and rolls and other good Thanksgiving food.
Chapter 7 Assignment:Create a bubble map with 6 external bubbles. In the center, write
Chapter 9 Assignment:Create a chart of objects that would be useful to create a fire and not
useful. Explain each.
Hatchet
For a spark
Rock
To hit metal on
Grass
To burn
Wood
Chapter 10 Assignment: Create a table that lists at least two moods presented in the text and
give cited examples of each.
Chapter 14 Assignment:Create a new invention that could help Brian survive in the wilderness.
I would invent a phone that has unlimited gigs. I would totally buy this phone so you dont waste
data. I would also buy so I can play on it all day I would also add were there no battery run out.
This would help brian because he can call for help. If they take like five hours to get there he
would just play on it. Remember it has no battery run out. On page 144-145. Thats the problem.
Chapter 15 Assignment:Create a chart that shows Brians changing emotions in this chapter
and the text support to justify your answer.
Happy
Happy
Happy
Frustrated
Chapter 16 Assignment:Create a chart that shows Brians changing emotions in this chapter
and the text support to justify your answer.
Calm
Happy
Frustrated
Chapter 17 Assignment:Make a pro/con chart about Brian getting into the airplane wreckage.
Then, write a summary paragraph of this information. Please use in text citations.
Pros(+)
Cons(-)
Materials + food
Die (drown)
GPS/ Transmitter
Get hurt
I think if brian gets into it he will find a lot of good items. Brian will probably find survival
kit. He may find a radio. He will maybe contact other people.
Chapter 18/19 Assignment:Create a chart in for possible themes and cited reasons for each
them. You must use at least 3.
Man vs Nature
Hard work
Overcoming challenges