MyView Hatchet Analysis Whole Group

MyView: Analyze Hatchet RL.5.1

By Janie Rushing

Multiple Choice

Why did the author include this picture?

• The author added this picture to help the reader visualize the creature described in paragraphs 3-5.

• The author added this picture to help the reader understand how pretty the forest is.

Open Ended

Picture how YOU would touch porcupine needles stuck in your leg. What does gingerly probably mean?

Multiple Choice

Which sentence from Hatchet also helps you understand the meaning of gingerly?

• "He couldn't leave them in, they had to come out, but just touching them made the pain more intense." -from "Hatchet," paragraph 8

• "When it was apparent that the shadow wasn't coming back he felt the back of his leg, where the pain was centered and spreading to fill the whole leg." -from "Hatchet, " paragraph 6

Multiple Select

Which sentences show a correctly quotation from the text?

• "At last he slept again, but already his patterns were changing and the sleep was light, a resting doze more than a deep sleep, with small sounds awakening him twice in the rest of the night." (from paragraph 13 of "Hatchet")

• At last he slept again, but already his patterns were changing and the sleep was light, a resting doze more than a deep sleep, with small sounds awakening him twice in the rest of the night. -Hatchet, paragraph 13

• In paragraph 13 of Hatchet, it says, "At last he slept again, but already his patterns were changing and the sleep was light, a resting doze more than a deep sleep, with small sounds awakening him twice in the rest of the night."

• "At last he slept again, but already his patterns were changing and the sleep was light, a resting doze more than a deep sleep, with small sounds awakening him twice in the rest of the night."

• "At last he slept again but already his patterns were changing and the sleep was light a resting doze more than a deep sleep with small sounds awakening him twice in the rest of the night."

Open Ended

The text said in paragraph one, "At first, he thought it was a growl. In the still darkness of the shelter in the middle of the night his eyes came open in the middle of the night and he was awake and thought there was a growl."

1. How did this character probably feel?

2. How do you know? (What you already know + what the text says)