1) The story is about a boy named Matt who is left alone in a cabin in Maine while his father is away for 6-7 weeks. He struggles to survive on his own and encounters many challenges. 2) Matt befriends an Native American boy named Attean who teaches him how to hunt, trap, and survive in the forest. 3) Over time, Matt is accepted by Attean's tribe and attends a feast with them. However, some in the tribe do not fully trust Matt. 4) After several months, Matt's father and family finally return. They had been delayed because of a typhus outbreak. Matt is relieved to be reunited with his family but keeps

1. SIGN OF BEAVER
TITLE 1 - READING

2. SIGN OF THE BEAVER
• Fifth Grade- Title 1
• Rhonda Holmes
• Reviewing for Test

3. Chapter 1 and 2
• Matt and his father built a
___________.
• His father had bought land
in _________.
• How many weeks did his
father tell him he would
be gone?
• What did his father leave
him?
• What animal annoyed
Matt all the time?
• What crop did Matt have
to weed and protect?
• Cabin
• Maine
• Six and seven weeks
• Gun
• Mosquitoes
• corn

4. Review Chapters 3 and 4
What was the name of the
man that came to the
cabin?
What did the man steal?
What was the only meat that
Matt could get now?
What got into his cabin while
he was fishing?
Name one thing that Matt
lost in the cabin.
• Ben
• Gun
• Fish
• Bear
• Flour and salt

5. Chapter 5 and 6
• What did Matt decide to
get for something sweet?
• What attacked Matt?
• Who saved Matt?
• What did Saknis ask Matt
to do?
• What was Saknis
grandson’s name?
• What was the name of the
book that Matt used?
• honey
• Bees
• Indians
• Teach his grandson to
read
• Attean
• Robinson Crusoe

6. Chapters 7, 8, and 9
• What did Matt use for
a symbol for the letter
A?
• Why did Attean feel
that Robinson Crusoe
was a foolish white
man?
• In chapter 9 what did
Attean teach Matt to
trap?
• Arm
• The white man could
not make a boat or
hatchet or a bed etc.
• A rabbit

7. Chapters 10 and 11
• Why did Attean not like
the part of the book about
Friday?
• When Matt lost his fishing
line, what did Attean show
him how to make?
• Attean thought that
tending the garden was
___________work.
• What did Attean’s dog
have in his nose?
• What sign did Matt see on
the tree to show hunting
• He was a slave
• Fishing hook
• Squaw
• Porcupine quills
• beaver

8. Chapter 12-13
• What did Attean help
Matt make to kill duck
and squirrels?
• What had happened to
the fox?
• The trap was a
______man’s because
Indians do not hunt
with them.
• Bow and arrows
• He was caught in a
trap
• white

9. Chapters 14 and 15
• Matt told a Bible story
about _______ and Attean
told a similar story about
an Indian.
• What animal did Matt
kill?
• What animal burst through
the brush to attack Matt
and Attean?
• What did Matt throw at
the bear?
• Who killed the bear?
• Noah
• Rabbit
• Bear
• Rabbit
• Attean

10. Chapter 16 and 17
• Why did Attean look
strange to Matt?
• Who invited Matt to the
feast?
• The Indians lived in a
_______________.
• Matt ate ______stew.
• Why did Attean not eat?
• After eating the Indians
___________.
• Who did not want Matt at
the feast?
• He had paint on his
face.
• Saknis
• Stockade or fort
• Bear
• He had killed the bear.
• Danced
• Attean’s grandmother

11. Chapter 18
• What did Matt find
trapped in the woods?
• Where did he go for help?
• Who did he ask for help?
• Who went with him to
help save the trapped
animal?
• Where was Attean?
• What happen to Matt’s
hand?
• Who cared for his hand?
• Attean’s dog
• Indian village
• Attean’s grandmother
• Attean’s sister Marie
• Hunting
• He cut it on the trap
• Attean’s grandmother

12. Chapters 19 and 20
• Why did the grandmother
invite Matt to the village?
• Matt played games with
the _________ boys.
• Matt touched ____and it
did not growl.
• Matt lost his _____in an
Indian game.
• Attean must go into the
woods alone to find
his_________.
• Attean could not
______during this time.
• He have saved Attean’s
dog
• Indian
• Attean’s dog
• Shirt
• Manitou
• eat

13. Chapters 21-22
• What was Attean carrying
that show he was a brave
now?
• What had changed in
Attean’s appearance?
• What did Saknis want
Matt to do?
• What gifts did Saknis and
Attean’s grandmother sent
him?
• What gift did Attean give
Matt and what did Matt
give Attean?
• Gun
• His hair was cut and
shaved with a strip of
hair in the middle.
• Snowshoes and maple
sugar
• His dog and a watch

14. Chapter 23 and 24
• After Attean left Matt
spent most of his time
doing what?
• What did he use to make
new breeches?
• Matt used ______skins to
make mittens.
• What did Matt use to walk
on the snow?
• Gathering firewood
and looking for food
• Blanket
• Rabbits
• Snow shoes

15. Chapter 25
• Matt went out to gather
_________because it had
been snowing.
• Matt saw a figure and it
was his_______.
• Why had his family been
so late coming?
• What happen to the baby?
• How did mother feel about
the cabin?
• Matt would never tell his
mother _____________.
• Firewood
• Pa or family
• Typhus
• It died
• It was beautiful and full of
food
• About almost going with
the Indians.