1. Hatchet Lesson One
By Gary Paulsen

2. Jaguar Jumpstart
1. What does survival mean? 2. List three things you couldn’t live without. 3. Describe a time when you felt threatened. Were you prepared? Explain with three sentences.

3. Goals for the unit: Hatchet Gary Paulsen
Read ____________ by _____________. It is a story about a _______ named ________who becomes stranded in the ___________alone and must learn to ___________.
Use information from Hatchet and other survival stories to explain Brian’s success and/or suggest ways he could have improved his approach to survival
Determine if Hatchet has value as a survival guide
boy
Brian
wilderness
survive

4. Cite evidence to support text analysis
Describe how character ____________and ________ lead toward ____________
Compare/contrast information presented in different genres in their approaches to a similar topic
Identify character traits essential to survive
responses
changes
resolution

5. Analyze the _______ of ______versus _______
Identify life lessons that we can learn from others’ survival situations
conflict
man
nature

8. Question1: Hatchet Reading Journal:
A weapon or tool
Chops wood
For firewood

9. What do I need to know about characterization?

10. New Vocabulary characteristic conclusion evidence
1.trait= a quality or __________________ Example: Loyalty is one trait that Brian has; brown hair is another. 2. inference= a _______________ reached from ____________ and observation. Example: He made an inference about the situation after analyzing all the facts.
conclusion
evidence

11. New Vocabulary describes noun text
3. adjective= a word that _____________ a particular quality of a _____________ . "Fast," "sweet," "thirsty" and "many" are examples.
Example: In the sentence "The fox jumped over the lazy dog" the word "lazy" is an adjective because it describes the noun “dog.”
4. annotations= explanations or comments added to a _______________
5. WAT Strategy= a strategy to annotate to determine a character’s traits
W= character’s _______
A= character’s _________
T= character’s __________
noun
text
words
actions
thoughts

12. Let’s Begin….
Listen and read along as I read the beginning of Chapter 1 of Hatchet by Gary Paulsen. I will at the end of the 3rd paragraph page 6.
It is important to pay attention to Brian’s words, actions, and thoughts because author’s use characters to convey important messages in a story.

13. Listen as I share my thinking about what we have read.
One thing I’m noticing is that we get to hear a lot of what Brian is thinking while he is flying in this plane and from Brian’s thoughts I can tell he seems upset or angry because his parents got a divorce and he seems to know some sort of secret about his mother.
I wonder what “the secret” is.

14. Now, write an annotation with me.
Label a post it with T:
I notice that Brian does a lot of thinking inside of his head and we get to hear a lot of his thoughts. He is thinking back to what happened during the divorce and how the judges decided who he would live with. He also thinks about how his father didn’t really understand why his mother wanted a divorce, but Brian knows because of “The Secret.”

15. What do you notice about Brian’s words, actions, and thoughts so far?
We completed a “T” annotation together already.
Does anyone have an annotation to share which was labeled a “W” or “A”?
How did you determine to label it “W/T”? (on your notes)
The text says on p.___ that Brian_(action)_____ or text says on p.____ that Brain said__(words)____.

16. Other Possible Annotations:
W: Brian seems bored or lonely because of the way he describes the pilot not speaking with him.
A: Brian seems excited to learn new things, but also nervous or hesitant based on his reaction to the pilot when the pilot lets him steer the plane.

17. New Vocabulary stands for
5. symbol-something that ____________ or represents something else A heart is a symbol of ______. A flag is a symbol of ________.
love
freedom

18. What could the hatchet symbolize in the text
What could the hatchet symbolize in the text? Question 2: Hatchet Reading Journal
Turn and talk to your shoulder partner
When you share out, use these conversation stems.
To Agree
● I agree with ___ because… ● ___’s point about ___ was important because… ● The reasons you provided support what I am saying because... ● You and I are coming from the same position.
To Disagree
● I see it differently because… ● The reasons and details ___ provided better support ___ because... ● There is no evidence to suggest that is true. ● I agree that ___, but we also have to consider that… ● We see ___ differently.

19. The hatchet could symbolize _________________.
danger
adventure

20. Finish reading the rest of Chapter 1(last paragraph on page 6-page 12):
Record Brian’s words, thoughts, or actions
Annotations are valid(acceptable) as long as they are text-based

21. Summarize Chapter 1 with your partner (in your workbook):
Who is the main character?
What is the most important thing the main character wants?
What obstacle or event stops the main character from getting what he wants?
How does the character overcome the obstacle? Does the character get what he wants?

22. Respond to Question 3: Hatchet Reading Journal:
What adjective would you choose to describe Brian?
Why? Use evidence from the story to support your adjective?
On p. ____________, Brian is described/acting ______________. What adjective would be appropriate here?

23. In this lesson, you learned about the main character, Brian, in Hatchet.