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For Reading groups, we have been given the freedom to choose books to read. We will be divided into a group that consists of 7 people, so 4 in a small group and 3 in another. Our Groups (Mitali, Lauren, Alex; and SooMin, Shannon, Finn, and Eugene) chose Hatchet By Gary Paulsen. We will each read a book a different book, then switch. Please write down some activities to do with the book. When we switch books, we will have ideas of what to do. If you ever read Hatchet, look here for some things to do while you read the book, and when you are done with the book!

*Shannon can't contribute to the wiki because her computer is not working, but she is writing down everything on a book. --SooMin--Feb, 14, 2008

Ideas

Before you read the book, you can look at the cover and predict what it is about. ~Mitali~ Jan. 22, 2008\
You could make out a quiz of the book when you are done.-- Lauren 28-1-08
you could make up a game remembering all the similes and descriptive words and all that stuff.- Shannonlee- January 29, 2008
You could do a P.P, of your favorite part in a chapter, when you are done. If you don't have enough people to act, you could ask other groups to join your P.P. --SooMin--Feb, 1, 2008
We could maybe even make a diorama of how we think the woods and/or Brian's shed looks based on the description in the book.>Finn< 11th of Feb,08
you could make a cross word puzzles about the things in the book- ShannonLee- March 1 2008

Predictions

Just by looking at the front cover of the book, I see a boy, whom I think is the main character and the background of the book cover is wilderness. Maybe he is stranded on an island. There is something in front of the boy's head and it looks like an axe/ hatchet. I also see a bear and a airplane. I wonder how these things are going to be connected with the book.--Lauren 29-1-08

Just by taking a look at it it looks like it may have something to do with planes and a boy maybe that the boy accidentally was dropped there and then got lost in the wilderness and he gets lost so he learns how to survive, then he finds a hatchet meaning a axe and thats all i can predict.- Shannonlee- January 29,2008

I predict that a boy could have a situation with the wolves, the moon, an axe and a plane. I predict that the genre will be realistic fiction. I think this book will be good because my sister recommended it. --SooMin--Feb, 1, 2008
by looking at the cover I can instantly tell that it is a good book because I can see the new berry award on it.-Eugene Feb/11/08
I predict by looking at the cover, Brian's hatchet is going to help him out a lot in the book, since the book is called hatchet and there is a huge image of a hatchet on the cover.I also think Brian is going to meat a wolf, since there is a wolf on the front cover. Brian is almost a teenager, so I think he is going to survive, even if he is alone in the wilderness. >Finn< Feb. 11th, 2008

What we will do

We read one to two chapters a day.

We are going to keep track of our contributions.

One week, we will make packages for Hatchet for the other group.

We will do homework and read only one chapter if it is near to the due date.

Make up games, and quizzes about Hatchet for each other.

Goal:

To finish the book on the due date, February, 28, 2008!!!

Remember to make a folder for your notes! The color is selected:

Key: Red: Holidays
Blue: Due Date!

*Remember to contribute every chapters!!

Schedule

February 2008

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
4 Setting up and discussing about Hatchet.	5 HW: Reading Chapters one and two (Write down figurative languages and descriptive sentences!)	6 HW: Reading Chapters three and four	7 HW: Reading Chapters five and six	8 HW: Reading Chapters seven and eight	9 HW: Reading Chapter nine	10 HW: Reading Chapter ten
11 HW: Reading Chapter eleven	12 HW: Reading Chapter twelve	13 HW: Reading Chapters thirteen and fourteen	14 HW: Reading Chapter fifteen	15 HW: Reading Chapter sixteen	16 HW: Reading Chapter seventeen	17 HW: Reading Chapter eighteen
18 HW: Reading Chapter nineteen Make sure to collect all of your notes on a poster	19 Share all your notes. Discuss what to do to the other group Make anything for Hatchet. ( Draw your favorite part, write a different ending..)	20 Start making activities or do activities.	21 Review your activities. HW: Bring all your things that you did over these weeks	22 Do a group project together ( Planning ) *Select the due date	23 HW: Start the group project practice	24 HW: Get things ready to turn in
25 HW: Checking over your works and do other things that might improve your things.	26 Show all your works, and posters etc Check over with your group	27 HW: All ready for tomorrow! ( Due Date ) Finish all of your things *Remember to bring all of your things Good Luck!	28 Your group must be settled and ready to show all of your work in a neat, stack pile for Mr.Carroll Or if you are doing a P.P you must be prepared!!!

If you agree this schedule, write your reason why. If you disagree with this schedule, write about why you disagree with it, and write about things to change.

I AGREE

I agree to this schedule because it gives allot of homework and there are allot of time to do the activities at the end. --SooMin--Feb, 5, 2008
I agree because this schedule give us time to do homework and activities so we can reach our goal- Shannonlee-- Feb, 9 2008
I agree because it's fair enough so that it doesn't work us to death but still gives us not too much and no to little.-Eugene-Feb/11/08.
I agree on this schedule because I think if we read that much or more each day, we will be able to spend a lot of time on activity packets for the next group, which would be fun, too! ~Finn~ Feb. 26th 08

I DISAGREE

Figurative languages, descriptive words and descriptive sentences

*Type in the figurative languages, descriptive words and descriptive sentences that you found in different colors. Make sure for the descriptive words, mentioning about the word, which page, paragraph and the meaning. If you don't know them, it is okay but try to remember it!

Descriptive Words

Waded. It means that to walk in the water, when partially immersed. -Descriptive
With great rolling jolts of pain. -Descriptive
fire= Brian's imaginary friend.
Reburying. -Descriptive Staggering. -Descriptive
Caved in hunger. -Descriptive
He's face looked like leather. -Descriptive
Crude -Chapter 12 Pg 111 Paragraph 2

-Our Hatchet group.

As golden as the sun, as smooth as leather~ Shannon and Finn~ Feb 27, 08

Chapter 1

And now a jolt took him like a hammer-blow. -Simile-Pg.10 It means that the pain became more worser and worser. --SooMin--Feb, 5, 2008
Diverse. A breaking word, an ugly breaking word.-Descriptive sentence pg. 3 it gives you an idea about how much Brian hates the word.-Eugene-Feb/11/08.
Brian turned again to glance at the pilot, who had both hands on his stomach and was grimacing in pain, reaching for the left shoulder again as Brian watched. -Descriptive sentence-Pg.10 It means that the pilot was smiling strangely like his sick and in pain. --SooMin--Feb, 5, 2008
The jolts that took the pilot back had come, and now Brian sat and there was a strange feeling of silence in the thrumming roar of the engine. -Descriptive sentence-Pg.12 It means that he was feeling really scared, worried, miserable, desperate, and strange. --SooMin--Feb, 5, 2008
On the first paragraph of this chapter, there is a descriptive sentence: I stared out at the green endless wilderness. Feb 27th - Finn and Shannon
A sudden jolt surprised him- simile-Pg. 12- It means that a jolt of pain took him by surprise.- Shannon- March 1 2008

Chapter 2

It was as if his hands and arms were lead. -Simile-Pg.13 It means that he was controlled like a robot or a doll. --SooMin--Feb, 5, 2008
Seconds had passed, nearly a minute, and the plane flew on as if nothing had happened and he had to do something. -Simile-Pg.13-14 It means that the time was slowly going by, and it was a miracle to Brian that the plane kept on going, without falling or flying madly. --SooMin--Feb, 5, 2008
He felt as if he might start screaming at any second. -Simile-Pg. 20 It means that Brian is really panicked and scared. In this situation, you must be calmed down and think about what to do next. --SooMin--Feb, 5, 2008
He felt like a prisoner, kept in a small cell that was hurtling through the sky. -Simile-Pg. 21 It means that he feels hopeless, depressed, scared, and he gave up. I would also feel like that too. --SooMin--Feb, 5, 2008
great rolling jolts of pain- Descriptive.- Shannonlee- March 1, 2008

Chapter 3

The plane, committed now to landing, to crashing, fell into the wide place like a stone. -Simile-Pg. 28 This sentence means that the plane fell on a smooth landing, and a wide space because a stone is wide and smooth. --SooMin--Feb, 10, 2008
All so still looking, so stopped, the pond and the moors and the trees, as he slid over them now only three or four hundred feet off the ground-all like a picture. -Simile-Pg. 28 It means that the background was so beautiful and wonderful that he was looking in a picture. --SooMin--Feb, 14, 2008
Then a wild crashing sound, ripping of metal, and the plane rolled to the right and blew through the trees, out over the water and down to slam into the lake, skip once on water as hard as concrete, water that tore the windshield out and shattered th side window, water that drove him back into the seat. -Simile and descriptive-Pg. 28 to 29 It means that the water was really hard because concrete is really hard and rough. --SooMin--Feb, 17, 2008

Chapter 4

The Memory was like a knife cutting into him. -Simile-Pg. 31 This powerful sentence means that his heart and The Memory pierced and ached his heart. It would be really painful to Brian. --SooMin--Feb, 10, 2008
His legs were on fire, and his forehead felt as if somebody had been pounding on it with a hammer, but he could move. -Simile-Pg. 33 It means that he were having a headache and he would feel really tired and dizzy because if you slam a hammer on your forehead, I hope everyone will feel like Brian! --SooMin--Feb, 10, 2008
Like the pilot, he thought suddenly. -Simile-Pg. 35 It means that he would've died like the pilot under the cold water, drowning. I think that Brian feels bad that he couldn't save the pilot's life. --SooMin--Feb, 14, 2008

Chapter 5

He was unbelievably, viciously thirsty. pg. 43- this shows that the author went deeper with describing thirsty.-Eugene Feb/11/08.
His lips were cracked and felt as if they were bleeding and if he did not drink some water soon he felt that he would wither up and die. -Simile-Pg. 43 It means that his lips are really dry as sand and really thirsty that his lips were cracked and felt as f they were bleeding. This sentence is also descriptive because, I can imagine the picture in my mind. --SooMin--Feb, 14, 2008
It was as if the water were more than water, as if the water had become all of life, and he could not stop. -Simile-Pg. 45 It means that he was really thirsty that he drank a lot of water like an elephant, even though he was fine with the first gulp, that he couldn't stop! --SooMin--Feb, 14, 2008
Gradually, like sloshing oil his thoughts settled back and the panic was gone. --Simile-Pg. 54 It means that his thoughts were all mixed up, and really in tough situations. --SooMin--Feb, 14, 2008

Chapter 6

The meal had been turkey, and they cooked it in the back yard in the barbecue over charcoal with the lid down tight. His father had put hickory chips on the charcoal and the smell of the cooking turkey and the hickory smoke had filled the yard. When his father took the lid off, smiling, the smell that had come out was unbelievable, and when they sat to eat the meat was wet with juice and rich and had the taste of the smoke in it... -Descriptive sentence-Pg. 60 I can imagine the meat moist and tender with juice and sauce over it. This imagination could make me drool all over the place in the wild. --SooMin--Feb, 14, 2008
He could not believe it was that easy. It was as if the birds had taken him right to the berries. -Simile-Pg. 63 It means that he felt really happy, miraculous, and surprised that he found the berries really easily, and he felt like the birds leaded the way. --SooMin--Feb, 17, 2008
He still felt a bit weak and once because he felt a strange new twinge in his stomach. -Descriptive word-Pg. 66 Twinge means a sudden sharp pain, and a sharp, sudden physical pain. --SooMin--Feb, 17, 2008

Chapter 7

Never anything like this. Never. It was as if all the berries, all the pits had exploded in the center of him, ripped and tore at him. -Simile-Pg. 67 It means that he was really in pain, and he was sick and especially in an emotional of home-sick. I feel bad for Brian and I would scream for my parents when I am alone in the wild. --SooMin--Feb, 17, 2008
Here the trees were not all the way down but twisted and snapped off halfway up from the ground, so their tops were all down and rotted and gone, leaving the snags poking into the sky like broken teeth. -Simile-Pg. 73 This sentence means that the sight was awful, and the trees were really worn down and broken into pieces. --SooMin--Feb, 17, 2008
He put a finger in it and found it to be sweet and tangy, like pop without the fizz, and he grinned and lay back on the sand, holding the bag up over his face and letting the seepage drip into his mouth. -Simile-Pg. 77 It means that he was really happy to try tasting a pop without the fizz in a long time. I think that even though, there was no fizz, he was really feeling wonderful. --SooMin--Feb, 17, 2008

Chapter 8

A brushing sound, a slithering brushing sound near his feet-and he kicked out as hard as he could, kicked out and threw the hatchet at the sound, a noise coming from his throat. -Simile and descriptive-Pg. 80 This sentence means that he was in panic and he was really spooked out, and scared. I would feel like Brian too. --SooMin--Feb, 17, 2008
The pain made it seem as if dozens of them had been slammed into his leg, but there were only eight, pinning the cloth against his skin. -Simile-Pg. 81 It means that it was really incredibly painful that he thought there were a lot of the pins had pierced through his flesh, bones, and muscles. --SooMin--Feb, 17, 2008
He turned and smiled and pointed to the fire as if to say, see, a fire. Simile-Pg. 84 This sentence means that Terry was trying to tell him something, that how he could make fire. I think that Brian and Terry will be more friendly than before. --SooMin--Feb, 17, 2008
The first faint light hit the silver of the hatchet and it flashed a brilliant gold in the light. Like fire. -Simile and descriptive-Pg. 85 It means that he figured out something really important and wonderful. Like a light bulb turning on in his head. --SooMin--Feb, 17, 2008

Chapter 9

They were a beautiful white with bark like clean, slightly speckled paper. -Simile and descriptive-Pg. 88 It means that it was pretty and wonderful to Brian that he lit a fire for the first time. It would be amazing and emotional to see and make a first fire, right in front of your eyes. --SooMin--Feb, 17, 2008
Then back to work, the sun on his back, until at last he had a ball of fluff as big as a grapefruit dry birch bark fluff. -Simile and comparison-Pg. 89 This sentence means that the birch bark fluff was quite big than the other fluffs that he made. It is quite big, when the fluff is big as a grapefruit. --SooMin--Feb, 17, 2008
The sparks poured like a golden waterfall. -Simile and descriptive-Pg. 90 It means that the sparks flowed and swayed around. The word, golden waterfall, was descriptive because the sparks were really precious as a golden waterfall to Brian. --SooMin--Feb, 17, 2008
The red glow moved from the sparks themselves into the bark, moved and grew and became worms, glowing red worms that crawled up the bark hairs and caught other threads of bark and grew until there was a pocket of red as big as a quarter, a glowing red coal of heat. -Simile and descriptive-Pg. 92 This sentence means that the glowing red worms became more bigger and wider, the happier became Brian. --SooMin--Feb, 17, 2008
But the flames were thick and oily and burning fast, consuming the ball of bark as fast as if it were gasoline. -Simile-Pg. 92 This sentence means that the barks, pieces of paper, and the twigs were going out, and the flames was really high, and quick, so they compared it with gasoline because if fire goes on the gasoline, it will probably explode. --SooMin--Feb, 17, 2008

Chapter 10

His stomach tightened and rolled and made noise as he looked at the eggs, as if his stomach belonged to somebody else or had seen the eggs with its own eyes and was demanding food. -Simile and descriptive-Pg. 99 It means that he was really starving with hunger, and he was really drooling over turtle's eggs. --SooMin--Feb, 17, 2008
There were seventeen of them, each as round as a ball, and white. -Simile-Pg. 100 This sentence means that the turtle's eggs were really circular and round that it looked like white balls. --SooMin--Feb, 23, 2008
I was predicting that there was a fence that was going to be set up around he house before I read this chapter~Finn and Shannon~ Feb 27, 08
I was thinking that Brian was going to find more eggs or at least try to~Shannon and Finn~ Feb27, 08

Chapter 11

This was completely gone and his stomach had caved in to the hunger and the sun had cooked him past burning so he was tanning, and with the smoke from the fire his face was starting to look like leather. -Simile and descriptive-Pg.104 It means that he was really looking tired and starved because he looked like leather and became less-weighed because leather is really light. --SooMin--Feb, 23, 2008
He would swing and look at it-a breaking twig, a movement of air-and know the sound as if he somehow could move his mind back down the wave of sound to the source. -Simile-Pg. 105 This sentence means that he became a pro to hear and identify sounds of nature. That skill could be useful in his school or in town. --SooMin--Feb, 23, 2008
From his height he could see not just the lake but across part of the forest, a green carpet, and it was full of life. -Descriptive-Pg. 107 It means that the sight was unbelievably beautiful and wonderful and the forests, and trees looked like green carpets. --SooMin-Feb, 23, 2008
As he watched a crayfish, looking like a tiny lobster, left one of the empty clam shells and went to another looking for something to eat, digging with its claws. -Simile-Pg. 108 This sentence means that the crayfish was really tiny for it's size that it looked like a tiny lobster. --SooMin--Feb, 23, 2008
waded- descriptive word- shannonlee- March 1,2008

Chapter 12

Something like a feathered bomb blew up and away in flurry of leaves and thunder. -Simile and descriptive-Pg. 114 It means that a sudden feeling burst up to Brian and the bomb was really soft and light like a feather that it didn't even hurt. --SooMin--Feb 26, 2008
Maybe, he thought, maybe it tasted like chicken. -Simile-Pg. 114 This sentence means that the fool bird's meat was the same taste as a chicken. I think that the fool bird and the chicken's tastes similar because they are in the same species. --SooMin--Feb, 26, 2008
A persistent whine, like the insects only more steady with an edge of a roar to it, was in his ears and he chopped and cut and was thinking of a bow, how it would be when he shaped it with the hatchet and still the sound did not cut through until the limb was nearly off the tree and the whine was inside his head and he knew it then. A plane! -Simile and sentence fluency-Pg. 115 It means that he couldn't know the sound of the whine and he couldn't get it out of his mind too. It is a sentence fluency because the sentence is really long, only using commas. The second sentence was really short, yet it is filled with emotions and power. --SooMin--Feb, 26, 2008
He put all of his life into his legs, jumped logs and moved through brush like a light ghost, swiveling and running, his lungs filling and blowing and now the sound was louder, coming in his direction. -Simile and descriptive action verb-Pg. 115 This sentence means that he was almost flying with joy because the helicopter was trying to save him and he could barely touch the ground because he was afraid to lose the helicopter. The descriptive action verb is swiveling instead of turning. --SooMin--Feb, 26, 2008
"Look back," he whispered, feeling all the pictures fade, seeing his father's face fade like the sound, like lost dreams, like an end to hope. -Simile and descriptive-Pg. 117 It means that he was feeling unbelievably hopeless, desperate and sorrowful. I think that I would feel like Brian too, if the helicopter just passed above my head. --SooMin--Feb, 26, 2008
I predict for chpt 12 maybe he might stay in one place in the woods but he starts getting hungry so he goes around the woods and tries finding food-Shannon-March 1,2008

Chapter 13

He had never seen a wolf and the size threw him-not as big as a bear but somehow seeming that large. -Simile-Pg. 121 This sentence means that Brian was starting to be afraid of everything. So he mistaken the small wolf as a big bear size. --SooMin--Feb, 26, 2008
Like a store, he thought, just like a store, and he could not remember later how many he ate that day but he thought it must have been over twenty. -Simile-Pg. 126 It means that it was like a refrigerator or a secret storing place to keep the turtle eggs. I wonder how it is the feeling of eating and drinking the yolk...not boiled! --SooMin--Feb, 26, 2008
As golden as the sun- Simile chapter 13 page 125- Shannonlee- March 1 2008

Chapter 14

Licked all the shells clean and couldn't have cared less that Brian was thrashing around in the water like a dying carp. -Simile-Pg. 131 It means that he was really hungry that he even licked all the shells. It is a good word choice to use the word, and the definition is a large freshwater cyprinid fish, Cyprinus carpio, native to Asia but widely introduced in tropical and temperate waters: an important food fish in many countries. --SooMin--Feb, 26, 2008
To his right, at the base of the rock bluff, there were piles of smaller rocks that had fallen from the main chunk, splinters and hunks, from double-fist size to some as large as his head. -Simile-Pg. 135 This sentence means that the rocks was really big and it was really the same size of Brian's head. --SooMin--Feb, 27, 2008

Chapter 15

Kind of like a pear, he had thought, with a point on one end and a fat little body; a flying pear. -Simile and humorous-Pg. 141 It means that the foolbird's shape, silhouette was the shape of a pear, and a flying pear!!!--SooMin--Feb, 27, 2008
He quickly cut the neck with his hatchet, cut the feet off the same way, and in his hand he held something like a small chicken with a dark, fat, thick breast and small legs. -Simile and disgusting-Pg. 144 This sentence means that he was really scared, grossed out to cut all the things, parts from the foolbird. If I was Brian, I would close my eyes, clench my teeth and with a flash, I would cut all the things. --SooMin--Feb, 27, 2008

Chapter 16

In the second clump he saw a bird, moved close to it, paused when the head feathers came up and it made a sound like a cricket-a sign of alarm just before it flew-then moved closer when the feathers went down and the bird relaxed. -Simile-Pg. 148 It means that the sound of the foolbird's warning sounded like the cricket's warning. Maybe the voice was really soft, cranky and husky. --SooMin--Feb, 27, 2008
But something caught his ear or nose and he began to turn, and had his head half around, when he saw a brown wall of fur detach itself from the forest to his rear and come down on him like a runaway truck. -Simile and descriptive-Pg. 150 This sentence means that the bear was really fast and mad that he squished past Brian. It is a descriptive sentence because instead of saying, there was a bear, it said when he saw a brown wall of fur detach itself from the forest. --SooMin--Feb, 27, 2008
He started to move, ever so slowly; her head turned and her back hair went up-like the hair on an angry dog-and he stopped, took a slow breath, the hair went down and she ate. -Simile-Pg. 151 It means that the moose was really angry and irritated that she was trying to pick a fight like an angry and mad dog. --SooMin--Feb, 27, 2008
More comfort, but like the comfort of the flames it didn't work with this new threat that he didn't understand yet. -Simile-Pg. 154 This sentence means that he was warm and safe by the fire but his inside of his heart was really hopeless, miserable and sinking in the darkness. --SooMin-Feb, 27, 2008
He was whipped against the front wall of the shelter like a rag, felt a ripping pain in his ribs again, then was hammered back down into the sand once more while the wind took the whole wall, his bed, the fire, his tools-all of it-and threw it out into the lake, gone out of sight, gone forever. -Simile and descriptive-Pg. 155 It means that he was really severely in pain, dark, melancholy, unsafe and lonely. I would not want to get in a tornado like Brian in the wild. --SooMin--Feb, 27, 2008
He had fallen into a deeper sleep with his mouth open just at dawn and it tasted as if he had been sucking on his foot all night. -Simile-Pg. 158 This sentence means that his tongue of taste, tasted really bad, yucky, and bitter. I would not like to suck my foot, and I hope no one will like that too. --SooMin--Feb, 27, 2008
He thought of the pilot, still in the plane, and that brought a shiver and massive sadness that seemed to settle on him like a weight and he thought that he should say or do something for the pilot; some words but he didn't know any of the right words, the religious words. -Simile-Pg. 159 It means that he was pressed by an emotional wave of sadness on his shoulders that he couldn't stand up and walk around. --SooMin--Feb, 2008

Chapter 17

The storm had torn the forest to pieces-up in back of the ridge it looked like a giant had become angry and used some kind of a massive meat grinder on the trees. -Simile and descriptive-Pg. 162 This sentence means that the tornado was really fierce, strong and hard that the big trees fell down and broke in to pieces like they had been in the TreeGrinder. --SooMin--Feb, 27, 2008
Pushing the raft, he figured, was about like trying to push an aircraft carrier. -Simile-Pg. 168 It means that pushing the raft was really hard and a scarce job to do. While I was reading this sentence, it reminded me of the big sycamore tree from the book, Where The Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls. I think that mostly everyone can cut down their trees if they have courage, hope and a goal to work on. --SooMin--Feb, 27, 2008
He was also wrinkled as a prune and ready for a break. -Simile-Pg. 171 This sentence means that he was really tired and every muscles were knotting up. Or, maybe his stomach was caved in by hunger. --SooMin--Feb, 27, 2008

Chapter 18

He exploded out of the surface, bumping his head on the side of the elevator when he came up and took air like a whale, pushing the stale air out until he wheezed, taking new in. -Simile-Pg. 176 It means that he was gulping, and gasping for air in his lungs because he holded his breath about a minute or two. If I was Brian, I wouldn't have got the Hatchet back from the icy, cold lake. --SooMin--Feb, 27, 2008
As soon as he felt himself slowing a bit he started raking back with his arms at his sides, like paddles, and thrusting with his legs like a frog and this time he was so successful that he ran his face into the bottom mud. -Similes and descriptive-Pg. 176 This sentence means that he was really trying his best effort to reach the bottom of the ground that he was moving like a frog in the lake. --SooMin--Feb, 27, 2008
"Tchaaak!" It was as if a balloon had exploded. -Simile-Pg. 177 It means that the sound of the air escaping was really loud and the sudden sound, explosion by the balloon was really frightening. --SooMin--Feb, 27, 2008
The bag fought him. It was almost as if it didn't want to leave the plane. -Simile and personification-Pg. 182 This sentence means that the bag seemed heavy to Brian and it is a personification because a bag cant fight or move. --SooMin--Feb, 27, 2008
It seemed to take forever and when at last his feet hit bottom and he could push against the mud and slide the raft into the shore weeds to bump against the bank he was so weak he couldn't stand, had to crawl; so tired he didn't even notice the mosquitoes that tore into him like a gray, angry cloud. -Simile and descriptive-Pg. 182 It means that he was dizzy and he fainted because he was surrounded by mad mosquitoes and he was so bone-tired that he fell asleep in front of the doorway. --SooMin--Feb, 27, 2008

Chapter 19

His tongue seemed to be stuck to the roof of his mouth and his throat didn't work right. -Descriptive-Pg. 191 This sentence is descriptive because I could feel the sudden rush of happiness, hope and shock to Brian while I was reading this sentence. I would also feel really wonderful and thankful to everybody in the world. I would also be shocked and my words wouldn't come out soothingly and smoothly. --SooMin--Feb, 27, 2008
I thought the end was very descriptive because it had like Lot of simile like as Soo Min typed- ShannonLee-March- 1 2008

These are our groups thoughts of the book so far:

Chapter 1

If I were Brian, I would be really scared to be alone, on a plane, without a pilot who is suffering by a heart attack. I would feel really sad, scared, panicked and angry. You would be panicked if you don't know anything about planes. I don't know how to control a plane, and I should read allot about them! --SooMin--Feb, 5, 2008