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- 3rd - 5th
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Students listen to passages from Gary Paulsen's novel "Hatchet" , draw on of the images from the passage, and identify which details Paulsen uses to crate these images. Full Review »
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- 6th
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Students visualize how Brian Robeson feel when he crash lands on the deserted island at the beginning of the novel, Hatchet. They spend this whole class period using prior knowledge of survival skills. Full Review »
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- 6th - 12th
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Students read a story, identify elements of fiction, create a project about survival, and make a PowerPoint presentation to demonstrate student comprehension of the story Hatchet. Full Review »
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- 6th
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Students read Hatchet by Gary Paulsen, discuss refraction, identify example of it from novel, and perform classroom experiments demonstrating refraction and reflection. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students read and identify the sensory details from Gary Paulsen's memoirs. In small groups, they read and analyze various excerpts, and list the sensory details on a Sensory Details Diagram. Full Review »
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- 6th - 12th
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Students read or listen to Hatchet by Gary Paulsen, identify elements of fiction, develop writing, thinking, and organizing skills, and create PowerPoint slides based on the story. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students read the novel, Hatchet, aloud in class and answer questions as they read. Students research different weather patterns and seasons in Canada to examine how the main character could survive. Students graph the time it would take to travel by various methods of transportation, and compare the geographic regions of Canada and South Dakota. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students read the book, Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen. They write various essays to be included in a Literature Circle Writing Portfolio. Each focuses on the elements of theme, plot, setting, characters, and conflict as they relate to the book. Full Review »
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- 5th - 7th
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students read Hatchet by Gary Paulsen. They create a bio-board after doing a study of the life of author Gary Paulsen. They also develop a product descriptor and rubric for the bio-board and Venn diagram. Finally, students view a movie based on the book and do a comparison/contrast on the two. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students read the story "Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen. Using the text, they identify the key facts and events in each chapter and the major elements of fiction. They practice making predictions and use evidence from the chapters to support their answers. Full Review »

