Hatchet Vocabulary and Context Clues

-thick, swarming hordes of mosquitoes that flocked to his body, made a living coat on his exposed skin...

• vicious

• large group

• small group

• noisy

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.RL.5.4

His clothes were wet and clammy and there was a faint chill.

• shredded

• torn

• uncomfortably damp

• frazzled

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.RL.5.4

In moments his eyes were swollen shut and his face puffy and round to match his battered forehead.

• puffy

• round

• bleeding

• beaten up

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.RL.5.4

Along the edge there were thick grasses and the water looked a little murky and there were small things swimming in the water, small bugs.

• clear

• dark and dirty

• thick

• slow moving

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.RL.5.4

His fingers gingerly touched a group of needles that had been driven through his pants and into the fleshy part of his calf.

• cautiously

• carelessly

• unknowingly

• unaware

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.RL.5.4

It was some form of granite, or sandstone, but embedded in it were large pieces of a darker stone, a harder stone.

• outside of

• barely on

• hanging on

• enclosed in

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.RI.5.4

Some of the rock that had been scooped out had also been pulverized by the glacial action, turned into sand, and now made a small sand beach that went down to the edge of the water...

• carried away by ice

• to reduce by crushing

• formed by ice

• smoothed out

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.RI.5.4

If only I had matches, he thought, looking ruefully at the beach and lakeside.

• with regret

• with excitement

• with sadness

• with joy

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

The curve of the rock back made an almost perfect flue that carried the smoke through the cracks of the roof but held the heat.

• a device to blow air to increase the flame

• a channel in a chimney for stopping flame and smoke to the outer air

• a channel in a chimney for conveying flame and smoke to the outer air

• a fireplace

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.RI.5.4

In the initial segment of the dream his father was standing at the side of the living room looking at him and it was clear from his expression that he was trying to tell Brian something.

• beginning

• end

• middle

• advanced