You have all completed your rough drafts and your self and peer edits (minimum of 2). Now it is your turn to make some final edits and/or revisions to your work.
I noticed that many of you did not use enough appropriate transition words in your paragraphs. Please feel free to use the list found on the following page: http://www.sass.uottawa.ca/writing/kit/grammar-transitional.pdf.
Type out your final/good copy of your predictions after adding or changing 5 transition words. Remember to pay attention to your capitals, spelling, grammar, transition words, etc.
I think the novel; “Hatchet” is about a teenager named Hatchet, who ran away from home because he was upset about his parents divorce. He took a plane called the Cessna, to go to the Himalayas. Half way into his flight something went wrong and it crashed. Everybody perished except for him. He was stranded in the Himalayan Mountains. Then he gathered up all the supplies left from the wreck and has constructed some sort of shelter from the wreck. Then at one point he runs out of food so he goes out to look for some more. When he realizes he is lost. Hatchet tries to find his way back, but instead, he finds a village. Hatchet gets help from the villagers to send him back home. The villagers escort him to the nearest town and he gets sent home.
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I think the book "Hatchet" will be about a boy who gets lost somewhere in the mountains.
ReplyDeleteIn the beginning of the book I think the boy and his family and his family will go camping in the mountains. As they are driving through the forest to the campsite the car crashes and both of the boy’s parents die. So the boy must try and look for help and the only tool he has for survival is a hatchet that he found in the trunk of the car. The boy sets off through the mountains, looking for someone to help him. Somewhere near the middle of the story the family of the boy notices that the boy and his parents haven’t returned home or spoken with anyone since they left. The family begins to worry. Days later there is still no word from the boy and his parents, so a search plane is sent over the mountains where they were going to be camping. Sadly the plane doesn’t see the boy because of the dense underbrush. Weeks pass, the boy must fend for himself, but eventually makes it back to civilization alive.
I think this book will be about a boy at age 17 or 18 who lives in the mountains or wild. The boy might turn his back on humanity or civilization because of bad memories, I also predict that his name is Hatchet. The wolf on the cover is howling at the moon. I believe it's something he remembers from being in the wild or the past The boy may live alone in the woods. The hatchet on the cover could also be his tool that he needs to survive.
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ReplyDeleteI think the novel Hatchet might be about a teenage boy, who is stranded in a deep, wild forest. He uses his hatchet that someone gave him for a present to survive in the forest. He experiences hardships like animal attacks and food problems. The boy go through all the problems and therefore, he finally learns how to make a fire with the hatchet and hunt animals with it. He becomes braver and wiser. At the end of the book, the boy lives happily in the wilderness forever.
ReplyDelete@ Everyone - If you are wondering which transition words to use, the 'Introduction', 'Sequence and Causation', and 'Conclusion' words are a good place to start.
ReplyDeleteI think Hatchet is about a boy who goes on a plane with his family to go on vacation although they never get there. After they take off they are flying over a forest and over the middle of the forest the pilot is unfortunately killed,so they crash in the forest.The boy is the only survivor of the crash and therefor is forced to survive in the wild for almost a year. In his time in the forest I think he will get attacked by an animal and in the end will eventually get out of the forest to conclude the story
ReplyDeleteMy prediction for the book Hatchet is there is a boy who goes on a family vacation and the plane catches on a blaze and crashes on a helpless island. No one survives except for him. I also think that he will be injured, and get very sick. He will barely even survive and have to eat and drink anything he can find. He will find a hatchet tool and see it's what started the blaze on the plane! He gets so foiled that he will destroy everything on the island that he can. Then, after he ruins everything, he throws the hatchet as hard as he can into the ocean. Right after he throws the hatchet into the water the sky turns dark and a huge downpour comes in and make him look for shelter. BUt all he dubs is a kindled chair from the plane, and a life jacket
ReplyDelete(REVISED) My prediction for the book Hatchet is there is a boy who goes on a family vacation and the plane catches on a blaze and crashes on a helpless island. No one survives except for him. I also think that he will be injured, and get very sick. He will barely even survive and have to eat and drink anything he can find. He will find a hatchet tool and see it's what started the blaze on the plane! He gets so foiled that he will destroy everything on the island that he can. Then, after he ruins everything, he throws the hatchet as hard as he can into the ocean. Right after he throws the hatchet into the water the sky turns dark and a huge downpour comes in and make him look for shelter. But all he finds is a kindled chair from the plane, and a life jacket
ReplyDeleteFirst I think the story is going to be about the guy that is on the front cover. I'm guessing that his name is Hatchet. One day he was fiying in a small plane and he crashed in the woods right after he got divorced. It made a big explosion and a bird was watching him and he made a campsite. When he was making his campsite he got hit by a hammer. his injury got infected and he did not make it.:(
ReplyDeleteJudging by the title and cover I predicted that the book "Hatchet" will be about a young boy who gets lost in the woods, and all he has with him to survive is a small hatchet. I also think it will take a long time for people to find him, so he will have to try to survive by himself. :)
ReplyDeleteI think the beginning of "Hatchet" will be, a middle aged man going to try out to become on a television show.He has to go to the wilderness to survive for one month.He brings all his supplies including a hatchet.Secondly I predict the middle of "Hatchet", to be the man fighting for his life from the cold.The man needs the hatchet to cut logs for the fire, but he end up misplacing it!Finally I think the ending of "Hatchet", will be the man finding the hatchet but in the end choosing he would rather not continue with the career of survival.:D
ReplyDeleteI think the novel "Hatchet" will be about a boy who goes traveling but the plane crashes in the middle of nowhere and he's the only surviver. The boy only has a Hatchet to survive and he stays there for a month and finally gets rescued and see his parents.
ReplyDeleteMy prediction of the book "Hatchet" is that there was a boy that was about 15 years old on a vacation with his family. Then, midway through the flight one of the engines blow causing the plane to fall. To conclude, the boy was the only survivor. Stuck, deserted, alone. without a doubt he will have to build a shelter, hunt for food, and learn how to survive in the wilderness until he can find help. As the story progresses, the boy faces tons of challenges showing him that life in the wild isn't that easy. In the end, he gets rescued by a search and rescue team sent to investigate the crash, saving him and bringing him home safely.
ReplyDeleteI think this book will be about a boy who was abandoned in the woods and only have a hatchet to survive with. I think this because of the title "Hatchet" and there are trees in the background on the cover. In the begging I think he will be abandoned and he will build a hut with wood and his hatchet and live there. In the middle I think that he will try to find his way home but I think that he will keep getting lost and not find his way home. In the end I think that he will hopefully find his parents. Or if he was abandoned at an early age he will find adults to adopt him.
ReplyDeleteI think this novel is about a young boy who gets lost in the forest. He might be scared at first, then he finds a hatchet. Later on the boy might meet a wolf and they go on adventures together. Near the end some people find him in an airplane overhead. They try to rescue him but he does not want to leave the wolf because they are great friends
ReplyDeleteJudging by the title and cover I think the book is going to be about a guy that got banished to the woods on a island and all he has to make shelter, fires Etc is a small little hachet
ReplyDeleteWhat I think will happen in the book, Hatchet, is that there was a boy who was around 15 years old on a plane. Then, suddenly the engines stalled and the plane crashed. The boy was the only survivor. The first thing his survival skills tell him is to search for nearby supplies. He rummages through the surviving containers from that plane and he finds a hatchet. He will need that hatchet to survive the extreme challenges that mother nature brings to him. Finally, after a couple long months of survival, a rescue team finds him.
ReplyDeleteI think this novel "Hatchet", I'm going to read is about a young boy finding a mysterious hatchet, and from that day on his life changes. I also predict that this young boy will travel to a tottaly different and parallel world and he won't be able to come back for a very long time. In the parallel world he meets some type of spirit animal that helps this boy to escape from his long journey accross this world. Lastly, I predict that one day this boy cannot find the spirit animal so he decides to move on by himself and has a bright and joyful future.
ReplyDeleteI predict the story Hatchet will be a boy named hatchet, who was tooken from his parents ,as a boy. After living yearsin different homes and moving around he runs away. I think he runs away to go find his parents. But when he finds them, they have completly forgotton about him. So he runs in the forest to be like a wolf. I heard the wolf is the surviover and the teacher. So he finds a wolf to let it teach him. I think he learns more about himself. Then after a year of living in the forest he goes back to his usual life. But he never forgets his time with the wolf. This is my prediction of the book Hatchet.
ReplyDeleteMy prediction of the book "Hatchet" is about a boy who goes on a camping trip and gets lost. He keeps on searching for one whole until he loses hope. Initially, he survives with no food, water and shelter for a whole day. One day, when he was trying to collect wood for his shelter, there was a huge storm. All the trees were gone and he had nothing for survival. As a result, he stayed in the cold with no food until one day, he found a pond nearby and in the pond there was a lot of fish. Fortunately, when he was walking back, he spot's a hatchet in the woods. Generally, with the hatchet, he caught food easily. Now all he needs is a shelter. With a lot of effort, he was able to build a shelter with all the wood he could he could find. He lived happily until one day, a few explorers were in the forest and they spotted the boy.In the end, the explorers take him home and he lives happily with his parents.
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ReplyDeleteI think the book is about a plane crash and one guy survives from the crash. The guy only had hatchet so he try to survive with it. He used hatchet to kill animals, make a shelter from cutting the trees, and he make a fire with it. In the cover there is a wolf and I think the guy was fighting with the wolf. In the end I think he gets rescued because the airport knew that the plane never came back so they thought the plane crashed. Then they went to rescue the survivors so he came back home.
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ReplyDeleteI think this story Hatchet will be about a boy in the woods he is hunting for a wolf and he takes all his tools and is trying to survive in the woods he is trying to explore the woods and possibly try to kill the wolf. This is what I think is going to happen in the start of the book is he runs away from home and he tries to survive in the wildlife and has to find his own shelter and his food to stay alive then he makes his own shelter and his food to stay alive then he makes his own shelter in the woods and he is maybe trying to wait for an animal to come so he can kill it And maybe eat it for dinner .Than maybe take it home and show his family that he can actually kill an animal.What I think will happen in the middle of the book is he was already been living in the wild for a long time so maybe finally he sees an animal but he was not quick a enough and the animal disappeared into to the dark lonely woods.Finally what I think is going to happen at the end of the book is the wolf and he killed it and the boy was so happy he made his way back home.He was so shocked and amazed that he killed a wolf.that is mis my prediction of the novel Hatchet.
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ReplyDeleteI think this novel Hatchet is going to be about, First about a boy who gets taken away from his parents, then he tries to go back home and he goes back and, when he gets back no-one is there. Next his family gets kicked out of his home and now they have to live on the streets. Now his family has no idea were he is, Then his parents became divorced.
ReplyDeletei think the story the hatchet is going.To be about.....first about how to survive all alone in the forest. And that no one is gonna find him secondly i think that there's gonna be some some ware wolf that he encounters and some bears and third i think that no one will find him then hes gonna kill some mean animals and then he makes it home
ReplyDeleteHATCHET firstly i think hatchet is about a boy who gets lost in the woods and trys to survive but a pack of wolves come and attack him . secondly i belive he will survive the attack and becomr part of the pack and the wolves help him survive and get back to the cessana were all the people are waiting for him.
ReplyDeleteI think the beginning will be about how a boy runs away from home because his parents abused him or he just decided to run away but the only thing he brought with him is a hatchet and he wondered off into the woods and couldnt find his way out i also think that there will be a wolf in the forest that he saw in the corner in his eye one day. then i think the middle of the story will be about how he survives but one day he sees the wolf and the wolf sees him so he tryes to fight off the wolf with his hatchet then finally he kills it then finally at the end he trys to find his way back home and finds the exit of the forest then therefore he thinks that his parents wherent that bad after all so he decided to just go home. that is my prediction on what hatchet and waht it will be about.
ReplyDeleteMy prediction is that the book hatchet is about a young boy who lives with his parents, his father is a lumberjack and the mother is a housewife. they live in a log cabin inside a dark misty forest. when he turned five years old the parents died, before the father died he gave his son a hatchet and told him to take care of it and when he's old enough he can take over as a lumberjack. Then one cold day while he was splitting wood he spotted a grey majestic wolf and since he was all alone in the forest the wolf became his best friend. The day came that his life would end he put the hatchet in a locker and the wolf was all alone again.
ReplyDelete(REVISED) I think the novel; “Hatchet” is about a teenager named Hatchet, who ran away from home because he was upset about his parents divorce. Considering the words from our group discussion, I predict he took a plane called the Cessna, to go to the Himalayas. Unfortunately, half way into his flight something went wrong and it crashed. Consequently, everybody perished except for him. He was stranded in the Himalayan Mountains. Then he gathered up all the supplies left from the wreck and has constructed some sort of shelter from the wreck. Then at one point he runs out of food so he goes out to look for some more. When he realizes he is lost. Hatchet tries to find his way back, but instead, he finds a village. Despite Hatchet being a stranger to the village, they help Hatchet. The villagers escort him to the nearest town and he gets sent home.
ReplyDeleteJudging by the title and cover I predicted that the book "Hatchet" will be about a young boy who first, just tries to go home, but ends up getting lost in the woods, and also, all he will have with him to survive is a small hatchet. Another thing that I think will happen, is take a long time for people to find him, so he will have to try to survive by himself. Finally, the boy is found, and again, he can be happy with his family. :)
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ReplyDeleteFirstly i am going to be talking about what I think is going to be in the book 'Hatchet' is theres a young boy that lives in the forest. Also the young boy only has a small hatchet to protect himself from the feirce island, but he also can use his hatchet to chop down trees for a house/shelter, fire wood and a real uncumpterball bed made from just wood and leaves and he soon gets rescued from his mom and dad
(REVISED) First I think the story is going to be about a guy named Hatchet that is on the front cover of the book. Usually he fly's a small plane that is called cressna and unfortunately he crashed in the woods right after he got divorced. Nevertheless the plane exploted on impact but Hatchet survived the crash. After he was buiding a campsite and got hit on the head with a hammer. Then it got infected and he did not make it.:(
ReplyDelete(REVISED)I think this book will be about a boy who was abandoned in the woods and only have a hatchet to survive with. I think this because of the title "Hatchet" and there are trees in the background on the cover. In the begging I think he will be abandoned and he will build a hut with wood and his hatchet and live there. In the middle I think that he will try to find his way home but I think that he will keep getting lost and not find his way home. In the end I think that he will finally find his way out and find his parents. however if he was abandoned at an early age he will find adults to adopt him.
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ReplyDeleteI think this novel is about a young boy who gets lost in the woods. first I think might be scared, later on he finds a hatchet therefore he has lost most of his fear. Later on He might meet a wolf and they start to bond and go on adventures. Near the end of the novel Some people try to rescue, when they see him on the ground as they were overhead in an airplane. To conclude, the boy does not want to go with them because he has become great friends with the wolf.
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ReplyDeleteIn the first place I think the book Hatchet is about a boy.Also I think he was tooken from them as a child.Then I think after years of moving around alot he runs away to try and find them.However when he finds them they have completly forgotten about him.In the middle I thinks he graps a hatchet and runs into the woods.Then he acts like a wolf because I heard the wolf is the survivor and the teacher. But he actully meets a wolf and bonds with it. Using his hatchet to survive he lives there for a year.In the end he gets on a flight to start a new live.Even though he time with the wolf never goes away he always has the hatchet. This is my prediction of the book hatchet.
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ReplyDeleteFirst I think this book will be about a boy at age 17 or 18 who lives in the mountains or the wilderness. Second maybe the boy turns his back on humanity, civilization because of bad memories. Also I predict that his name is Hatchet. Later in the book he might see a wolf howling at the moon like shown on the cover. However I think the hatchet on the cover might be his only tool to surviving in the wilderness, Finally I believe that he is living alone in the woods. This is what I predict the book Hatchet will be about
REVISED- First, I think the book "HATCHET" would be about a boy who is often sometimes lost in thoughts, goes traveling by himself. In the middle of the trip, a bird hits the plane's fan and the plane crashes in the middle of nowhere. When the boy wakes up, everything is all broken down and he's the only surviver. The boy barely survived but finally the rescue team came 2 weeks later after the crash and the boy went back home with his parents.
ReplyDeleteREVISED- The first thing I think of what the beginning of "Hatchet" will be,is a middle aged man going to try out to become on a television show.He has to go to the wilderness to survive for one month.He brings all his supplies including a hatchet.Secondly I predict the middle of "Hatchet", to be the man fighting for his life from the cold.The man needs the hatchet to cut logs for the fire, but he end up misplacing it!Finally I think the ending of "Hatchet", will be the man finding the hatchet but in the end choosing he would rather not continue with the career of survival.:D
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ReplyDeleteTo begin with, I have read this book before a long time ago and I still remember the story. However, before I read this book I knew it would be about survival. Notably, I looked at the small details like how the author was Gary Paulsen and I know he writes books about survival. I also noticed images like the plane falling down and how the main character is in a rural area. Firstly, in the story I think the main character will crash land into the forest. In the middle, he will try to survive using all he knows from watching T.V at home and any other thing he learned. Lastly, or at the end Brian will hopefully get rescued.
First of all I think this novel "Hatchet", I'm going to read is about a young boy finding a mysterious hatchet, and from that day on his life changes. In fact I think this young boy will travel to a tottaly different and parallel world and he won't be able to come back for a very long time. But fortunately the boy survives. In the parallel world he meets some type of spirit animal that helps this boy to escape from his long journey accross this world. In the end, I predict that one day this boy cannot find the spirit animal so he decides to move on by himself and has a bright and joyful future.
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ReplyDeleteI think that the book, Hatchet, will be about survival. First, a boy, maybe around 14 years old, will be on a plane to a far off country. Then, in mid flight, the plane's control system fails and the plane is out of control. They crash in the middle of a forest and the boy is the lone survivor. As a result of the sudden trauma, the boy panics but, his survival skills quickly kick in and his first thought is to rummage through the containers that survived the crash. He finds a nearly broken transmitter. Suddenly, as he's rummaging, a hatchet falls from a tree and almost kills him. He decides uses it to cut down trees for shelter, find food, and most importantly, survive. Finally, after a couple long months of surviving, a rescue message comes in on the transmitter. The pilot must have sent a call for help before they crash landed. In the end, the boy is rescued.
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ReplyDeleteI think the book hatchet will be about a boy(around the age of 15) who gets lost somewhere in the mountains.
In the beginning of the book I think the boy and his family and his family will go camping in the mountains. As they are driving through the forest to the campsite the car crashes and both of the boy’s parents die. Next the boy must try and look for help and the only tool he has for survival is a hatchet that he found in the trunk of the car. Then the boy sets off through the mountains, looking for someone to help him. Somewhere near the middle of the story the family of the boy notices that the boy and his parents haven’t returned home or spoken with anyone since they left. Since weeks later there is still no word from the boy and his parents the family begins to worry and sends a search plane over the mountains where they were going to be camping. Sadly the plane doesn’t see the boy because of the dense underbrush. Weeks pass, the boy must fend for himself, but in the end he eventually makes it back to civilization alive.
(REVISED x2) Firstly, my prediction for the book Hatchet is there is a boy who goes on a family vacation, and next the plane catches on a blaze and crashes on a helpless island. No one survives except for him. Although I think that he will be injured, and get very sick. He will barely even survive and have to eat and drink anything he can find. In addition he will find a hatchet tool and see it's what started the blaze on the plane! In conclusion he gets so foiled that he will destroy everything on the island that he can. Then, after he ruins everything, he throws the hatchet as hard as he can into the ocean. Right after he throws the hatchet into the water the sky turns dark and a huge downpour comes in and make him look for shelter. But all he finds is a kindled chair from the plane, and a life jacket
ReplyDelete@ Everyone - I'm happy to see your revised predictions after adding your transition words! For those of you who have yet to do so, you have until Monday morning to complete your revised work.
ReplyDeleteAlso, please inform your parents that we will have an open house in our classroom from 1:30pm on Wednesday until the end of the day so you can showcase what you have learned this term!
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ReplyDelete(Q)What was Terry smiling about when he looked at Brian. Did Brian have a concusion when he said he felt like there was a keening throb in his head and it seemed that the whole crash had happened to his head?
(W)Wow Brian actually slept? Wouldn't you try to find your way out of that place first? Wow Brian got hurt so bad that he couldn't even think strait?
(I) what made me have a image in my head was when the author said there was no sound but the sound of birds singing. What also made me have an image was when the author wrote "Brian stiffly set his back against the wooden tree.
(L) what I and possibly many other people are wondering about is what does abated mean? what does hammered mean I think it means something like hammering something with a hammer