Sign+of+the+Beaver

back cover, illustration from the front cover, or other ideas you have to discuss as a group BEFORE typing your question.**
 * As a group, list 10-15 questions you have about this novel BEFORE reading it. You may use the blurb on the
 * __Pre-Reading Questions__**
 * 1) Why does he have a Knife?
 * 2) Why does he have a spear?
 * 3) Why is he sharpening the spear?
 * 4) Why are there only two people?
 * 5) Why are the people staring at each other?
 * 6) Why are the people by the river?
 * 7) Why is it called the Sign of the beaver?
 * 8) What does the Beaver have to do with the book?
 * 9) How old are the people?
 * 10) Why is it a Newbery honor book?
 * 11) Did Elizabeth George Speare have anymore books?

How would you feel being left on your own for a few months? Would you be able to survive? What would make you nervous? What would you be exited about?**
 * __Day 1 reflection:__

I would feel really lonely. I wouldn't have enough food to survive and I can't hunt. Also I can't go fishing that's just not my type. I would be nerves and scared if a stranger came to my house, & if I ran out of food. I would be Excited when I saw one of my family members faces.

BY: live4friends

I would be sad if I was alone because it would be really lonely but it would be fun cause there's like no rules. I would be able to survive fine because ill stilll Eat right and exersize that. where that guy came thats when id be nervous because strangers dont come up a lot in the middle of no where. I would be exicited because of no rules.

basketball4life

I would be exicted to be alone, but Wolves or kidnappers would make me scared. I don't know if i could survive with playing basketball or, eating healthy foods. So really i would be sad or scared, and i would not like to there.

comments by:snow cone

Day 2 Reflection:__** instructions or was it on accident? What types of rules would kids have it they are left alone? Describe IN DETAIL the feelings Matt felt when he realized Matt was not on the the stranger was coming into his cabin. Did he make a good choice by letting him in? What would you do in that same situation?**
 * __//yes.the only thing i woud be scared of spiders, but i would like it I could do whatever I want when I want like going fising whenever I want.Id be able to eat oreos all I want! I wouldn't have follow the rules and have to get grounded. I woudn't like to have clean up.I would not have to make arangments for friends to come over. weird al//
 * Have you ever been left at home alone? What was that responsibility like? Were you left with specific

I was and it was really easy because my moms specific derections were just watch t.v. and don't answer the phone. Rules should be what my parents told me, That way it was fun and easy.

-Basketball4life

I really like how every body in our group is a good reader. I am really looking forward to what happens at the end of the book. I want to find out who the stranger is. Matt looks like a funny charcter or a instusting charcter. commets from: snowcone

When I was left a lone for a long time it felt like there was a ghost beside me. I had kept hearing all these weird sounds. I couldn't cook at all and my mom's rule is that I can't play with fire unless it's an Emergency. I didn't really think it was a emergency so IO ate out of the pantry. Matt I thought was kind of okward because he really didn't know what he was doing here. Matt had just went with the flow kind of. That guy like just made himself at home. I don't think it was a good idea to let him in because he could pull out a weapon and hurt him whenever he wants. What I would do in that situation would be that I wouldn't let anyone in because that is my mom's rule to. That's what i would do. -molovesdogs!

I have only been left in charge once and it was only for about 30 mins and I was terrified! My mom told me to stay in the basement with everyone and watch a quiet movie and then no one would know we were there. I cept on hearing these weird noises and told everyone else so they were scared too. if I was in matt's situation I wouldn't let that person in I would lock the doors and pretend no one was home. -live4friends! but it was geart and i got a good report. but i broke one of the rules i strted a fire in the fireplace.another time my mom left me by mistake but when she found out she did a wheely with her 4X4.weird al//
 * __//no i would have told him to get//__** **__//the !@!$#%//____//#^& out of here. i have been left alone

Day 3 Reflections:__ Matt meets Ataen and his grandfather. The native americans help Matt to survive. What people do you depend on in life to provide for your needs and wants (list 5 people and what they provide for you). __//1)DAD food 2)MOM clothes 3)JACK fun 4)ALAN lets me play with jack 5)MITCH fun BY weird al//__**

1.)mom, She always looks out for me and gives me a nice bed to sleep in and dinner every day. She is probaly tied with my dad but i couldn't have a tie for 1st so... 2.)Dad 3.)kyler 4.)Ben 5.)My neighbor tom

~Jordan Ransom

I depend on my Aunt Mary, My mom, my dad, my Uncle Skip, and my Aunt Mary's dog Mustang. They all mean a lot to me. -molovesdogs!

my mom takes care of me in every way except for making money. My dad provides money for my family. my brothers and sisters help me have fun. Lizzie helps me fit in my teachers help me get an education.

by: Live4friends

Matt finishes reading Robinson Curosoe to Attaen. What book would you recommend to him to use as a teaching tool that would keep Attaen's interest in learning to read? Explain why. Attaen then shares a story with Matt from his tribe's lore. What was the point of his story? How did Matt respond?
 * __Day 4 Response Questions__**

Attaen makes an interesting discovery with Matt about a wolf & "white man's trap." How is this explaination of why the wolf did what it did be related to the plight of the native americans as the "white man?" __**//THE NORTH AMERICAN HUNTING magizens. BEcause he likes to hunt but dosen't know everything.by weird al//**__

Attaen was interested in reading because he would never bow down to a white man. Because white man weren't nice to Native Americans and so neither was the wolf. The white men aren't nice to Natives so wolves aren't nice to them either so the wolf is like the white men. -molovesdogs!

Any book that he would recommend i mean Matt's a good person he'll probaly read good books also he should judge ataens characteristics. If its action give him action books, etc.

-basketball4life

Basically it means that they called the Wolf a "white man" because the wolf didn't listen to the Native Americans and neither do the White men

BY: Live4friends. Matt makes a mistake and leads Attaen and himself into a sticky situation. Describe that situation and the DIFFERENCE between each boy's response to the end result.
 * __Day 5 Response Questions:__**

Matt is starting to become on better and equal terms with Attaen and the tribe of the beaver. How does Matt gain ground to become on "equal footing" with the native americans?

What offer does Sankis make to Matt? How does Matt respond? Are you surprised at his feelings or was it a pretty easy choice to make?

THe difference between the boys responses were that one wanted to go away and the other wanted to fight the bear with the dead rabbit he had just killed. Matt gained ground by being strong and brave and he wasn't going to give up unless it tried to attak him. Luckily Attean killed with his bow and arrow. He didn't offer anything for what I read in the story. I read it over and over but I couoldn't find the answer. -Molovesdogs

Attean and Matt didn't agree because one wanted to go fight the bear and one didn't. Matt was the one that wanted to leave but didn't. Matt became stronger and braver and wasn't going to give up! Unless of course the bear tried to attack. -live4friends

The situation was they were in a couinceadent with a bear and attean was fine with killing it and matt fell all sick and yucky about it like he had to puke. Also he had to help carry the bear and the whole time he still didn't feel good about the bear situation.

-basketball4life

sorry mr.meyer but i just don't get the question comments:snow cone Snowcone - Matt & Attean get to become equals - how does this happen? What does Attean's grandpa ask of Matt? What was Matt's answer? Were you surprised?

__**//i think that it was good what matt did was a good idea.weird al//**__

They were in a fight with a bear plus attean was ok about killing the bear. I would have been sad like matt too.

The novel ends with a reunion. What discovery did Matt make about himself during the choices & trials he faced? How was the setting & ending different than if the novel took place during today instead of in the 1700s? What was the author's purpose for writing Sign of the Beaver? How much did you enjoy the novel? What was your favorite part?
 * __Day 6 - 6 questions to answer__

The setting is difforent because if it were today there would be more people, buildings, and less forests, & Indians. I enjoyed the book a hole bunch it wasn't the best book I've read this year but it was okay. My favorite part was when Matt didn't want to fight the bear and then eventually he fought up the corage & decided He would fight the bear unless it tried to attack him.

by:live4friends

__//today theres no indians and lots of people around .My favriote part was when the indains took matts shirt. by weird al//__**