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Hatchet Book Discussion: Flexible Schedule

Class
Janelle Fila
Average rating:4.6Number of reviews:(896)
In this 4-week course, students will read and discuss Gary Paulsen's wilderness survival novel, Hatchet #academic

Class experience

US Grade 6 - 9
Week One Chapters 1-4
Week Two Chapters 5-9
Week Three Chapters 10-14
Week Four Chapters 15-19 (and Epilogue)
I have an Master's Degree in Creative Writing for Children and Young Adults. I was a substitute teacher for three years before teaching on Outschool for multiple years. Students love to bring up this story! It is especially engaging for reluctant readers or those interested in the outdoors. It is an action packed, fast paced story that keeps reader's interest, even students who have a harder time focusing on books. The setting includes beautiful wilderness descriptions that make you want to take a hike outdoors! The story opens up a lot of conversations about safety, responsibility, and the emotional impact of being alone and trying to survive by oneself. I am very excited to read this with your student and see what feelings and emotions Hatchet brings up for them as we journey through this story together! 
Homework Offered
Students will read between 40-50 pages a week on their own time. Each Sunday, students will have access to the new video and a corresponding one page worksheet with discussion questions and places for fill-in-the blank answers. Each week, I assign a short writing assignment focused around that week's discussion questions and ask the students to share their responses in the classroom. There are also daily activities each day like vocabulary words, an I Spy game, word searches and crossword puzzles to test their comprehension from the weekly chapters.
1 - 2 hours per week outside of class
Assessments Offered
The more questions, comments, and posts that students share in the classroom, the more I can understand their knowledge and comprehension of the topics we are discussing.
Grades Offered
The students will need a copy of Hatchet to read on their own. It can be borrowed from the library or even listened to as an audio book. The students will not need a physical copy of the story in class, although they may find it helpful to have while filling out their worksheets or working on their writing assignment.
Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.
According to commonsensemedia.org: Parents need to know that Gary Paulsen's Hatchet is an intense, fast, exciting read. The main character is a 13-year-old boy whose parents are divorced. He survives a plane crash in the Canadian wilderness en route to visit his father and must use the hatchet his mother once gave him to stay alive. Many kids report that this is the first school-assigned book they fell in love with. Students say this story is appropriate for age 10 while parents lean toward age 12. 
Average rating:4.6Number of reviews:(896)
Profile
I currently teach English Composition at the collegiate level. I have a Master's degree in Creative Writing for Children and Young Adults, so I teach reading and writing classes. I worked as a substitute teacher for 3 years, in all age ranges and... 
Flex Class

$9

weekly or $33 for 4 weeks
4 weeks

Completed by 4 learners
No live video meetings
Ages 11-15

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