Vocabulary
What is a hatchet?
A tool like an axe that is used for cutting
Who is the main character in the story?
Brian
What is an example of a shelter?
A cave or trees/sticks leaned together to make a teepee.
When you don't know a word in the text you can...
Look it up
Circle it and come back later
Look at other words around it to learn what it means
What is a noun? Give an example from the story.
A noun is a person, place, or thing. - Brian
When might someone need a shelter?
When they are in danger and need a safe place to stay
Where is Brian?
In the Canadian forest
When does Brian get frustrated in the story?
When he cannot start a fire.
What is an author? And bonus if you can tell me who is the author of our book.
The person who writes the book.
What is a verb? Give an example from the story.
An action word - gesturing
What is a dweller?
A dweller is a person who lives in a specific place
What attacks Brian in the cave?
A porcupine
Use the word dweller in a sentence about the story.
Brian was not a cave dweller and didn't know how to make fire.
Tell me 2 meanings for each of these words:
1. Blow
2. Bark
3. Fine
Blow: breathe air on something; hit something
Bark: noise; covers trees
Fine: okay; thin/small
What is an adjective? Provide an example.
A descriptive word - bright, happy, hungry, tall
When might someone feel frustrated?
When they are unable to do something
What is a quill?
A quill is the pointy parts of a porcupine
To protect himself, to start a fire
What did Brian add to the fire to make it start?
Oxygen, he breathed on it.
When you add -er to the end of a word, what happens?
Teach + er
Bike + er
It becomes a person. Teacher, biker, trucker
What is a gesture?
What is the main idea of Hatchet?
Try hard; don't give up, have grit!
Show everyone a gesture you might use to tell someone something.
Provide an example!
Tell me the who, what, where, and when of this sentence:
In the middle of the night, Brian was attacked by a porcupine in a dark cave.
In the middle of the night - when
Brian - who
Was attacked - what
In a dark cave - where
When you add "ed" to a word like watch + ed, what happens?
It is now in the past. We watch TV today. --> We watched TV yesterday.