Sign of the Beaver
Ch. 7-12
Please answer the following questions in the literature response section of your
journal. Give specific examples and page numbers for the examples.
1. How did Matt learn to read? Do you think this is a good way of teaching Attean?
2. What does Attean teach Matt in return for the reading lessons?
3. How do Attean’s teachings of the forest differ from Matt’s and Matt’s father’s
ways?
4. Why do you think the story of Robin Crusoe angered Attean?
5. In what ways do you think Attean and Matt are alike? Different?
Please complete the vocabulary in the vocabulary section of your journal in 3
column format.
1. heathen
2. impatient
3. disdain
4. grudgingly
5. rigid
6. finicky
7. adz
8. scornfully
9. nonchalantly
10. contemptuous