Plot
Exposition
Lessons
Skills
Setting
100

How long Brian spent alone in the woods

What is fifty-four days?

100

What happened to the pilot

What is a heart attack?

100

What Brian learned about eating gut cherries

Eating too many would make him very sick

100

How Brian stored food for the future

He built a pond for live fish and made a ladder to a natural 'shelf'

100

The shape of the lake

What is an L?

200
What happens the first time Brian hears a plane passing

What is he is unable to signal it in time?

200

Why Brian was on the plane to begin with

What is he was going to visit his dad in Canada?

200

What the skunk incident taught Brian

What is that he needed to protect his food?

200

The weapons and tools Brian was eventually able to make (list at least 3)

What is a fish spear, a bow and arrow, woven walls, a bed, a fish board, a fish pond, and a raft?
200

Animals that Brian encountered in some way (list at least 5)

What is a bear, a moose, a turtle, wolves, a porcupine, a skunk, fish, rabbits, and foolbirds?

300

What happened to Brian's hatchet

He dropped it in the lake, but was able to get it back

300

The Secret

What is Brian saw his mom kissing a man who wasn't his dad?

300

The benefits of having a fire

What is warmth, protection, cooking, and keeping animals away?

300

How Brian learned to start a fire

What is by using fine wood fibers and sparks from his hatchet?

300

Where Brian built his shelter

What is in an overhang of a cliff face?

400

Brian's Firsts (there are 4)

What is First Fish, First Meat, First Arrow, and First Rabbit?

400

Brian's friend who came to him in a dream about starting a fire

Who is Terry?

400

Things that Brian ate before finding the survival pack (list at least 3)

What are gut cherries, raspberries, fish, turtle eggs, rabbits, and foolbirds?

400

How Brian learned to catch fish

By aiming slightly below where they appeared to be and by using waste from old fish as bait

400

What Brian would have had to live through if he had not been rescued when he was

What is winter?

500

How Brian was rescued

He accidentally left the Emergency Transmitter from the survival pack turned on and a nearby pilot heard it.

500

The teacher who taught Brian to stay positive and that he was his own most valuable asset

Who is Mr. Perpich?
500

How Brian felt after losing everything to the tornado

What is confident and determined to survive?

500

A skill that Brian developed during his time in the woods that stayed with him for the rest of his life

What is being very observant?

500

Changes in the setting after the tornado

Broken and torn-up trees, and the plane became visible

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