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Hooray! Here are your projects you will complete as a group. Project 1: Please visit the sites below under Project 1 and familiarize yourself with the Catskill Mountains. Each of you needs to choose a picture from one of the 4 seasons. You all need to choose a different one. Write a descriptive paragraph about that picture. If you were a camper what might you see, hear, touch , taste and smell if you were traveling in the picture. Remember to include figurative language, onomatopoeia, and descriptive words. Your rubric for this assignment will be located in the Evaluation page. Project 2: MAP IT OUT! Print out the student map of NY located on the first link of Project 2 below. Shade in the Catskill Mountains. Label the major cities. Include a few of the rivers located near the Catskills. Use the sites below to help you. Project 3: Words! Words! Words! Your hikers will need to know important words or terms in order to survive. Please keep an ongoing list of words you do not know or understand. As you read each chapter complete a Wordfinder Sheet so that you will be able to include your important discoveries in your Survival Handbook. Your hikers will be so thankful! Your teacher will give you the sheets. Project 4:Read chapter five of My Side of the Mountain. Using details and evidence from the text write a how-to paragraph to include in your survival handbook on how to create a home inside a tree. What did Sam Gribley do? Please be very clear so your fellow hikers will know what to do! When you are finished writing your paragraph create a clay model of what Sam's tree looked like so others will have an idea. Project 5: After reading many chapters in My Side of the Mountain you are aware of the season change. How will your hikers know how to prepare for winter? Please use the book and the links below to create a list of steps to follow in order to help them prepare for winter. What must they do to survive? Project 6: Reread chapter 12. Pay attention to the part of the story on page 77 where the man asks, "May I call you Thoreau?" Why does he want to call him Thoreau? Who was Thoreau? Using the links below research Henry David Thoreau. Using the Venn Diagram compare Sam Gribley to Thoreau. Create a Venn Diagram of your own by using drawing paper and a circle tracer. Project 7: Survival is the name of this game. Think back on Sam's journey. Design a game that will teach your hikers about survival. Create a gameboard on large white drawing paper along with pieces. You may want to be creative and ask them "what if" scenarios. It's totally up to you. Make sure you include directions on how to play your game.This will be a fun way to teach your hikers about all the survival tips you've learned along the way! I'm sure this will prepare them for their journey!

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