Book Report Instructions for the Class

You are going to put together a book report on Hatchet. We are going to use a lot of symbolism for this report.

Make a list of six to ten objects you would want to have with you if you were lost in the wilderness or some other hostile, lonely place. What would you most want to take? What would you be able to carry? What would come in most handy? This is your survival kit.

Next list the most important events in the story. There should be as many events as there are items in the survival kit.

Use your essay to choose the important events.

Match the events with items in your kit. Be creative. How could the event and the item relate? How could the item be symbolic?

For example, one item I might choose to take is a lighter. The lighter could represent when Brian learned to start a fire.

Write a description on the 3 x 5 cards I give you. Include the changes in Brian, taken from your essay, in these descriptions.

You will make or cut out pictures of the objects and glue them to sheets of construction paper, along with the descriptions.

When you finish, we will staple the pages together and make a book.

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