Characters
Quotes
Vocabulary
Plot
figurative language
100
The main character of the story.
Who is Matt?
100
"Might be well to make notches on a stick, seven notches to a stick. When you get to the seventh stick, you can start looking for us."
Who is Pa?
100
squaw
What is a female Indian?
100
setting
What is Maine wilderness (in the past)?
100
Attean was as defiant as an old mule when forced to learn English from Matt.
What is a simile?
200
Knowledgeable about surviving in the woods, but not about books.
Who is Attean?
200
"White boy teach Attean what book say."
Who is Saknis?
200
manitou
What is an Indian spirit?
200
The genre of the story.
What is historical fiction?
200
The bee stings were fire burning Matt's body.
What is a metaphor?
300
A sneaky thief.
Who is Ben?
300
"Sign show beaver house belong to people of beaver."
Who is Attean?
300
piz wat
What is "good for nothing"?
300
A conflict in the story
What is Matt and Attean have to learn to get along and gain each others respect. OR What is Matt has to learn to survive on his own in the wilderness.
300
Attean's skin shined like the sun with the bear grease smeared on it.
What is a simile?
400
Does not want Matt to come to the village, but later changes their view of the "white man".
Who is Attean's grandmother?
400
"That was mighty tasty, son. Mighty tasty. You wouldn't have a mite of tobacco now, would you?"
Who is Ben?
400
drenched
What is soaking wet?
400
What is one way Matt and Attean are alike and one way they are different?
What is both young boys growing up in the wilderness? (or other acceptable answer) What is one is white, one Indian? (or other acceptable answer)
400
The sparks from the fire sang and danced while the Indians feasted on the bear meat.
What is personification?
500
A spunky girl that would have liked to go to school.
Who is Sarah (Matt's sister)?
500
"All this food. And I've been feared you were starving!"
Who is Ma?
500
blunderbuss
What is a gun?
500
Matt learned how to hunt and Attean learned how to read.
What is something Matt learned from Attean and Attean learned from Matt?
500
Matt felt 10 feet tall when he realized Attean respected him.
What is hyperbole?
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