~Novel Study~
A novel study enables students to continue to practice and develop their reading and thinking skills through a close reading of a novel featuring engaging characters and plot. After introductory lessons and activities, our novel study will span over several weeks and require students to read the novel independently while taking notes about what they're reading. When they arrive in class, students will demonstrate their understanding of the text by completing a series of tasks each week.
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At the end of the novel study, students will be challenged to demonstrate their understanding of the novel by completing a culminating project.
This award-winning contemporary classic is the survival story with which all others are compared―and a page-turning, heart-stopping adventure, recipient of the Newbery Honor.
Brian is on a tiny plane, off to visit his father, when the pilot has a heart attack. Brian crash-lands and manages to survive, but he is now stranded in the middle of the Canadian wilderness. His only tools of survival are a torn jacket and a small hatchet. As Brian desperately searches for food and wanders alone, he ponders the course of his life and tries to come to terms with his parents' awful divorce. Will he manage to stay alive and somehow find his way back to civilization? A Newbery Honor Book, this beautifully written story is full of riveting surprises and will keep readers on the edge of their seats. |
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