Woods Runner chapters 1-2

Which 3 phrases best summarize chapters 1-2?

• hunting deer, family, news of war

• rabbit covered in insects, Isaac's place, folded paper

• daydreaming, small store, evil doers

• wilderness, safe cabin, crackle of fire

Chapters 1-2 are told from which pint of view?

• 1st

• 2nd

• 3rd limited

• 3rd omniscient

What can be inferred from the feeling of uneasiness Samuel feels?

• The war will probably come to Samuel's wilderness home.

• Samuel wanted an action plan.

• Samuel did not like the crowd of people in his home.

• The events in the books Samuel was reading would happen.

The setting is important to the story because...

• There are many animals to hunt.

• Samuel lives far away from the war that is taking place in the East.

• People can own thousands of acres.

• The neighbors can easily come to visit.

Read the paragraph. Then, write 6 onomatopoeias.

They told Samuel about the chaos of towns that they'd escaped. There were noises-hammers clanging at blacksmith forges, chickens clucking, dogs barking, cows lowing, horses whinnying and whickering, people who always seemed to need to be talking to one another.

Read the passage:

"Since they was so much noise from the sprats as it seemed a dozen of them, my thinker fuzzed up like bad powder and my recollecter might not be all it could be..."

1) write the simile

2) write 3 made up words

Read the passage:

"Not a single person in that cabin could have known what was coming. And even if they had seen the future, they would not have been able to imagine the horror."

Which literary device does the line contain?

• cliffhanger

• flashback

• foreshadowing

Read the following line:

"Well, I think we should do nothing but wait and see how the wind blows."

What type of figurative language is being used?

• simile

• metaphor

• idiom

• alliteration