Hatchet Ch. 4-6

What is ‘the Secret’?

• His mother has been having an affair.
•  Brian’s parents were getting divorced.
• His father left his mother for another woman.
• Brian’s mother didn’t want him to live with
  her.

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CCSS.RL.6.1

Before the sun came up, Brian was bothered
by

• Bats
• Mosquitoes
• Bees
• Snakes

Brian’s English teacher, Perpich, always said

• Slow and steady wins the race
• Don’t put off until tomorrow what you can do today
• Always think about the positive
• Remember the story of the little engine that could

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CCSS.RL.6.2

Brian remembered that when the pilot had a
heart attack:
 

• He pulled the throttle making the plane go up
• He pushed the throttle making the plane go down
• He hit the rudder changing the plane’s direction
• He broke some important instruments as he fell over

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CCSS.RI.6.3

Brian remembered a time when he and his friend
Terry:

• Went hiking in the mountains
• Built a lean-to shelter
• Drank lake water
• Cooked an animal they caught over a fire

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What did Brian always keep in sight so he
didn’t get lost?

• His jacket
• His shelter
• The airplane
• The lake

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CCSS.RL.6.1

Read the following quotations below from chapter 4-6, and explain what is being discussed in this  particular passage.
“Quite a bit – that’s how he remembered it. Quite a jerk to the side. It pulled his head over
sharply when the plane had swung around” (53).

• Brian is attempting to remember how much the plane was taken off course when the pilot accidentally hit the rudder. He is wondering if he will be found by the searchers since this will have taken him off of the flight path.
• Brian is wishing he had learned to fly a plane better so he never would have crashed. 
• Brian is remembering the time when he watched a movie about a plane crash similar to his own crash. 
• Brian is remembering why his neck hurts so badly right now. 

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Read the following quotations below from chapter 4-6, and explain what is being discussed in this  particular passage.
“Grabbing and jamming them into his mouth and swallowing them pits and all” (64).

• Brian finds some pecans and eats as many as he can find to get full. 
• Brian is dreaming about the time he and his mother went berry-picking when he was little. 
• At this point in the novel, Brian is very hungry since he has not eaten in days. He finds a patch of
  berries and eats many of them. This results in him being very ill.
• At this point in the novel, Brian is seeing things that are not there due to his lack of food, and he is pretending to eat berries. 

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