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Hey everybody, welcome to the Wallock
Way. I'm Jessica and today's video is
going to be a look inside our brand new
Hatchet novel study. So this is for the
novel Hatchet by Gary
Pollson. And in this novel study, you're
going to find a page that is basically
going to be your lesson plans for six
weeks. Cross-curricular connections. And
what this is is ideas to extend the
novel in the subjects of math, writing,
social studies, science, art, and
music. A page for your favorite quotes
from the
book. And then for five weeks, your
setup is going to be very similar. So,
for example, you would see here that on
week one, you're going to be reading
chapters 1 through 4. So, then week one,
here's your copy work. And then here is
the things that we're going to talk
about and notice that are either going
to be grammar, punctuation, or
figurative language or um literary
devices. There's going to be vocabulary
for each week. The way that it works
changes a little bit. This has words on
the left and you're going to match it to
the definitions on the right. There's
creative writing for each week. This one
happens to be a
letter. There is comprehension for the
chapters that were read for each
week. And then there is a summary page.
I'll go ahead and show you a second week
just so you can see that it's similar
but a little bit different. So here's
week two and then here's what we're
going to be talking
about. our vocabulary. This time you're
going to fill in the blank for the
definition. Week two writing is going to
be a journal
entry. Week two
comprehension and then a summary for
week
two. Week three copy work and what we're
going to be working on here. We're going
to be talking about repetition for
emphasis. That's what we'll be focusing
on from the copy work. This week for
vocabulary, they will use a dictionary
and look up the definitions for these
vocabulary words and then write a
sentence using the words from above. In
week three writing, they're going to
learn how to write a specific kind of
poem. This type of poem is a diamond
poem. So, it tells them how to write it,
gives them an example, and gives them
seven lines to write one
themselves. Comprehension for week
three, and then a summary. Now, week
four and five will be very similar. Week
six is after you have finished reading
the book and it's kind of a review week.
So, for the review week, you're going to
do things like a word search, a cross
word
puzzle, designing your own book
cover, get digging into the setting of
the story,
identifying the
theme, digging into the plot of the
story, choosing a character, and doing
an in-depth character
analysis, doing a persuasive writing
book review of the story, whether you
recommend it or not recommend it and
then persuading somebody to either read
it or not read it. You will watch the
movie and do an in-depth book and movie
comparison. And then there is a
figurative language activity. There's
also a hands-on activity as well. So,
there's a scavenger hunt and then a
hands-on matching. I'll show you that in
just a moment. And then there are some
final project ideas for when you have
finished. These are like additional. You
can do them if you would like. They're
not required. There's nine different
ones to choose from. And then there is
an answer key for any of the
pages that require an answer key. For
the hands-on figurative language
activity, it is a figurative language
sorting activity. So, you have all the
different types of figurative language
and then you have cards that have quotes
directly from the book and you would
read the underline. You'll read the
whole thing, but the underline is the
specific one. So, in this case, the
engine coughed. that is in fact a
personification. So you would put that
under there. Um here is the next
sentence and we are talking about for a
second all he heard was the whoosh of
the empty airwaves. That would be an
example of an anamonopia. So you would
just sort the figurative language like
that. And there is an answer key for
this activity in the back of the study
as well.
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