Sign of the Beaver - Chapters 1-2 Comprehension

A good title for Chapters 1-2 could be...

• Building a log cabin

• Going after the family

• Learning to Live Alone

• The Long Journey

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CCSS.RI.1.1

CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

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

• 1st

• 2nd

• 3rd limited

• 3rd omniscient

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

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

• Most likely a Penobscot Indian is keeping an eye on Matt

• Matt's father has returned

• Matt is imagining the shadows because he is afraid of being alone

• The deacon is coming to visit

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CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

The setting is important to the story because...

• There is plenty of water for the crops and animals to hunt

• The settlement is near the Penobscot River

• Pa must travel a long way to bring his wife and younger children to the homestead

• Matt and his family would be the first settlers in a new township

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

Sequence the following events by numbering them in correct order.

• Father gives Matt his watch.

• Someone arrives at the cabin.

• Father and Matt build a log cabin.

• Father purchases a tract of land in Maine.

• Matt remembers his 13th birthday will take place while his family is away.

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

Read this line from the end of Chapter 2.

So he was not so quick-witted as he should have been when unexpectedly someone arrived.

Which literary device does this line contain?

• cliffhanger

• flashback

• figurative language

• climax

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3