I would like to see more of a book club format for ETC this semester. There are 2 boys and 3 girls. Both boys are very verbal, very imaginative. I'm sure she could get some real good discussions going with those two. If the teacher wants to stick with a study guide, why not use that as the framework for the discussion? They could still do the vocabulary list, but maybe dig into word roots, word origins? Let the kids read the chapter outside of the class, and spend the hour in discussion. I'm not sure Hatchet was written about a specific area, but they could draw a map of a Canadian wilderness, maybe build a model, do some mapwork and estimate how long it would take to walk to find other people. There's a lot of hands-on activities they could do along with discussion.
