Characters
This Character is responsible for supervising Cole during Circle Justice
Who is Garvey?
What is beating up Peter Driscal?
Forced to leave a place as punishment
What is banished?
Cole's belief that fear is something to be what?
What is challenged or afraid of?
The setting where Cole must spend 1 year alone
What is an island in Southeast Alaska?
This Tlingit elder guides Cole through cultural practices on the island.
Who is Edwin?
The way Cole tries to escape during his first day on the island.
What is swimming for the mainland?
Small, light boat
What is a skiff?
This theme explores facing the consequences of one's actions.
What is accountability?
Cole destroyed this on the first day on the island
What is the provided cabin/shack and supplies?
Who is his father?
What happens to Cole after trying to escape.
What is he gets swept away and exhausted/ he can't swim against the current?
Attacked or injured by something
What is mauled?
Cole begins learning that anger is caused by this
What is choice?
The animal whose presence forces Cole to show respect.
What is the Spirit Bear?
This animal attacks Cole, forcing him to confront his own vulnerability.
What is the Spirit Bear?
The powerful realization Cole has while lying injured on the ground
What is admitting he is responsible for his own anger?
Stretched tight
What is taut?
Circle Justice focuses on this most.
What is healing?
Where Cole spent his time prior to the island
What is a juvenile detention center?
This committee meets to help Cole make amends instead of going to jail.
What is Circle Justice?
After the Spirit Bear attack, what important choice does Cole make that marks the beginning of his willingness to change?
What is he chooses to stop blaming others and takes responsibility for his actions?
Gloomily or resentfully
What is sullenly?
Cole's experience demonstrates that true change requires this inner action.
What is forgiveness of others and self?
Cole placed this item in the water after realizing his words were now all the proof he needed.
What is the clump of Spirit Bear's hair?