Description
Get your learners thinking! Our PRINT AND DIGITAL Hatchet the Novel Study Unit Plan has the activities and quizzes you need to teach a 7-week novel study — prereading questions, characters, vocabulary, projects, writing, and more. You’ll love the “print-and-go” activities in slideshow and .pdf, AND the same fun activities converted and optimized for digital learning (424+ pages, slides, & forms for all your print and digital teaching needs).
⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ And don’t forget the easy-grade Google Forms!
Your learners will have fun with the rigor and creativity of our engaging activities built from best teaching practices. We want to make your lesson plan journey easy, so you can focus on your expertise. This literature guide includes a curriculum map pacing guide that offers our day-by-day suggestion for how to plan out your weeks of fun activities.
Our pedagogy section explains the instructive idea behind the activity, gives ideas for implementation, and aligns the lesson plan to the standards. We’ve filmed some training videos on (1) how to assemble a Novel Analysis Packet that is unique to the academic needs of your learners and (2) how to effectively use our Quickwrite writing prompts.
TEXT: HATCHET by Gary Paulsen
LEVEL: 5th – 7th
TOTAL: 424+ slides/pages/forms in lesson plan unit
→ Based off the 2006 Simon & Schuster Edition [ISBN: 978-1416936473].
→ Our activities easily integrate w/ Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Canvas, Schoology, Edmodo, Blackboard, Moodle, Brightspace, Sakai, Showbie, Remind, & more.
→ Our activities easily integrate w/ Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Canvas, Schoology, Edmodo, Blackboard, Moodle, Brightspace, Sakai, Showbie, Remind, & more.
→ Pacing Guide and Answer Keys included
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WHAT OTHER TEACHERS ARE SAYING ABOUT THIS NOVEL STUDY RESOURCE
♥ This is such a comprehensive novel study! My 6th graders are so engaged in the story, activities, and the topics presented in the Quick Writes, they don’t realize the rigorous learning they’re doing! Thank you for high quality products, as always!
♥ This is a great product. The quick-writes alone are priceless; they kept students engaged and connected to the text. The activities target important literary concepts creatively, and they brought out the best in my fifth graders.
♥ Once again I am blown away. It may be a little unfair that most of my novel studies are by you guys. I really like that you have given an answer key to your plot and character conflict activities. This has allowed me to make stations and the kids manipulate the cards to figure out where they would go. You would think that the kids would get it spot on but many still have trouble. This just makes the stations idea run smoother.
♥ Well put-together resource. I told another teacher to purchase this resource. It is a must.
♥ Love love love this resource!! I love Hatchet and all the accompanying activities to do during a novel study. This was a super comprehensive resource and packs a LOT into it.
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HATCHET – NOVEL STUDY CONTENTS
→ Suggested timeline of how a teacher could plan out the unit book study plan
→ Detailed explanations of the goals of each activity and how to conduct the activities
→ Meets Common Core Standards (CCSS novel unit). Easy TEKS conversion.
→ Easy to differentiate the lesson plan for different learning levels: Honors, 2nd language learners, and Sped
➡️ ➡️ ➡️ BEFORE READING
★ Prereading Bias Intro Activity
– answer thematic questions to get learners thinking about the novel
– 1 page + 11-slide and 4-digital slide activity
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1,2
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.1
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.1
➡️ ➡️ ➡️ DURING READING
★ Crash Map Activity
– Learners try to solve where Brian crashed
– 3-page + 14-digital slide activity
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2
★ Crash Tally Activity
– Learners track a tally of how many days Brian has been stranded
– 1-page analyzer + 1-digital slide activity
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2
★ Plot Chart Analyzer Diagram Arc Activity
– analyze the 6 parts of the plot
– 1-page + 12-digital slide analyzer & suggested answer key
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2
★ Conflict Graphic Analyzer – 6 Types of Conflict Activity
– analyze the 6 different types of conflict in stories
– 2-page + 12-digital slide analyzer & suggested answer key
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2
★ Characters Activity
– analyze the main characters using novel quotes
– 4-page + 14-digital slide analyzer
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3
★ Sensory Language Analyzer Activity
– analyze the sensory language in the novel
– 1-page + 1-digital slide analyzer
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4
★ Symbols Activity
– analyze the hatchet as a symbol in the novel
– 1-page + 1-digital slide analyzer
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4
★ Figurative Language Instructional Notes
– We set out to make the most helpful, most compelling, most graphically attractive teaching resource for you to introduce your learners to all the various figurative language. This 70+ slide slideshow will help you introduce how every many you need to teach your level of learners.
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7
★ Figurative Language Activity
– analyze and complete 51 figures of speech specific to the novel
– 6-page + 6-digital slides bundle
– Similes, Metaphors, Idioms, Hyperboles, Analogies, Personification, Onomatopoeia, Puns, Irony
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4
★ Journal Questions – Quickwrite Writing Prompts
– 1/2 writing assignments to spur much deeper conversational thinking
– 28-question slideshow + 29-digital slides
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1,2
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.1
★ 14 Comprehension Questions Pop Quizzes
– a 5 comprehension question pop quiz per 1-2 chapters
– 28-pages + 30-slides + 44-slides of digital quizzes
– The purpose of these is so learners who read the chapters recently would ace the quiz and learners who didn’t read recently would not show comprehension. – We’ve added a Google Forms quiz version that compiles grades into a spreadsheet with learners’ names and class periods to make things easier for you to grade all in one place (no auto-grade, though, because of the short-answer format).
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2,10
★ Vocabulary List and Quiz Assessment
– 150 vocabulary words from the novel
– five 30-question lists & quizzes
– 20-page + 20-digital slide bundle includes list of words, quiz, and answer keys
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4
➡️ ➡️ ➡️ AFTER READING
★ Essay Writing and Speech
– 3 response to literature essay options for learners to choose from; optional delivery of essay as a speech
– Includes essay topics and speech grading rubrics
– 6-page + 11-digital slide bundle
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1,2,3
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.1,9
– CCSS.ELA-SpeakingListening.SL.1,4,6
★ Movie vs. Novel Comparison Activity
– 2-page + 2-digital slide activity
– compare & contrast the movie and novel
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7
Enjoy! And remember, “so much of all this, so much of all living was patience and thinking.”
