Fun, interactive, rigorous Touching Spirit Bear activities / project using hexagonal thinking for your novel study or literature circles! Students will use critical thinking skills to analyze & discuss Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen. Hexagonal thinking is a retrieval and connection strategy. The goal is for students to make a generalization about linked ideas. At the end of your unit, students are given (or self-generate) several relevant ideas, concepts, feelings, images, terms, etc.