VOCABULARY
Define rivulet
a very small stream.
What is Brian's last name?
What is the "Secret"?
The mother's affair
What does Brian eat in chapter 10? Grasshoppers, ants, eggs, or snails?
Eggs
Identify the literary device: “His stomach had caved in to the hunger and the sun had cooked him past burning so he was tanning.”
Personification
DEFINE TINDER
DRY MATERIAL
Why does Brian call the fire his "friend"?
A guard for him and something to talk to.
Identify the literary device: “Birds, insects—there was a constant hum and song.”
Onomatopoeia
TRUE OR FALSE: Brian is able to catch some fish with his bare hands.
False, the fish are too fast.
In chapter 12, what did Brian have to "invent"?
A bow and arrow
Describe how Brian thinks and feels after the rescue plane turns away and leaves.
There is no hope, all is gone, all just a game.
A central idea or message in a particular passage, story, text.
List 3 ways the fire has helped Brian:
heat, keeps animals/insects away, and cooking
What unexpected event happens during Brian's search for food in Chapter 12?
Brian has an encounter with a moose that almost tramples him, which shocks him but also reinforces the dangers of the wilderness
List three themes that are present in Hatchet.
man vs nature, perseverance, survival
Use the word haunches correctly in a sentence
What is I got down on my haunches to light the fire.
What phrase does Brian repeat multiple times in chapter eleven? Hint: “There were these (blank) (blank) (blank).”
There were these things to do.
Why does Brian decide not to make a signal fire every day?
He would never be able to keep the wood supply going.
Well, he'd actually never heard anybody say it. But he felt that it should be true.
Interjection: A word or phrase that is grammatically independent from the words around it, and mainly expresses feeling rather than meaning.
Oh, what a beautiful house! Uh-oh, this looks bad. Well, it's time to say good night. Actually, um, it's not my dog.