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Johnny Tremain
Reading Guide
PART 2
Chapters 5-8
TEST DATE: November 5
Complete the following as they are assigned throughout the Part. Use this packet to prepare for your test.
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_____Day 1 Focus Activity CHAPTER 5 “The Boston Observer” Section 1
_____Day 2 Section 2, 3, 4
_____Day 3 CHAPTER 6 “Salt-Water Tea” Section 1, 2, 3
_____Day 4 Section 4, 5, 6
_____Day 5 CHAPTER 7 “The Fiddler’s Bill” Section 1, 2
_____Day 6 Section 3, 4, 5
_____Day 7 CHAPTER 8 “A World to Come” Section 1, 2, 3
_____Day 8 Section 4, 5
_____Day 9 Figurative Language Chart
_____Day 10 LITERATURE GROUPS Questions/Event/Effects Chart
Johnny Tremain
Chapters 5-8 Quiz Date: Nov 6
Before You Read
FOCUS ACTIVITY
Do you think it is fair to expect people to pay taxes when they cannot vote for those who impose the taxes. GIVE REASONS FOR YOUR ANSWER ______
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SETTING A PURPOSE
Read to find out how Sam Adams, Johnny, Rab, and other Bostonians respond to “taxation without representation.”
BACKGROUND
Time and Place
As early as 1767, the British were taxing the tea that was shipped to the American colonies. Some colonists began boycotting British tea; tea exporters such as The East India Company lost a great deal of money. To help this important business, the British government gave exclusive rights to sell tea in the American Colonies, under The Tea Act of 1773. In September of that year, the East India Company filled seven ships with tea bound for the colonies. These ships, carrying hundreds of thousands of pounds of tea, were headed for Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Charleston. Protests broke out in all these cities, and several of the ships turned back to England. The ships bound for Boston reached their destination in November 1773. The Patriots responded with a dramatic protest.
Did You Know?
In the 1770’s, Boston was a key American shipping port, both because of fine ships built there and many different products traded o the Boston wharves. Most Bostonians were somehow connected to the shipping trade or to the fishing industry; a variety of craftspeople built ships; unskilled workers loaded and unloaded merchandise from ships and warehouses; other Bostonians made a living catching and selling fish and oysters. Many of Boston’s wealthy families had made their money through shipping and trading.
(Johnny Tremain Study Guide.Glencoe McGraw-Hill)
Johnny Tremain
Reading Guide: Chapters 5-8
For Part 2 test, you are responsible for knowing the following terms,
the correct answers to the reading questions, and the figurative language chart.
VOCABULARY
Flashcards: Place each vocabulary word on a 3x5 card: word on one side with an illustration and the definition on the other.
1. discomfiture (n.): defeat of plans or hopes; frustration
2. fagot (n.): bundle of sticks or twigs tied together for fuel
3. revel (v.): take great pleasure in
4. imperturbable (adj.): not easily excited or disturbed; calm
5. obdurate (adj.): stubborn or unyielding; hardened in feelings or heart
6. pullet (n.): a young hen
7. persevere (v.): continue steadily in doing something hard; stick to a purpose
8. paroxysm (n.): a sudden outburst of emotion or activity
9. sedition (n.): incitement to discontent or rebellion, usually against a government
10. commandeer (v.): seize private property for military or public use
11. genealogy (n.): descent of a person or family from an ancestor; pedigree; lineage
12. pique (n./v.): a feeling of anger at being slighted; wounded pride
LITERARY TERMS: know the definitions and look for examples of these elements as we read
Theme: Central message, concern, over-arcing message of a piece of writing.
Simile: A figure of speech stating a likeness between two unlike things using the
Words “like” or “as”. He charged like a bull through the streets.
Metaphor: A direct comparison between two unlike things. Her expression was iron in its firmness.
Idiom: A phrase or expression that has meaning in a certain culture or region unrelated to the literal meaning of the words. The test was a piece of cake.
Analogy: A comparison of two different situations. The room full of running and tumbling kindergarteners reminded her of a swarm of bees suddenly disturbedin their hive.
Personification: Giving a non-living thing the characteristics, emotions, actions of something that is living. The brook tickled our ankles and beckoned us to follow it around the bend.
Word Study
English contains words and expressions from different parts of the world and from different times. Knowing the word parts helps with understanding what these words mean. For each word part, write the meaning and as you read, list words in Johnny Tremain that contain the word parts.
Suffix / Meaning / Word from JT/Page / Prefix / Meaning / Word from JT/Page-logy
(-ology) / The study of / dis-
(di-; dif-) / separation, apart, in different directions
-tion / State of, forms nouns / im-
(in-, em-,en-) / In, on, amongst, within
-ate / to make, cause, act / per- / Through, thorroughly
-able / capable of, susceptible of, fit for, tending to, given to
READING QUESTIONS
CHAPTER 5
“The Boston Observer”
Section 1
Summary Add two additional facts not covered in the summary from your reading.
Free but destitute, Johnny decides he must sell the silver cup-and that Lyte will pay the best price for it. When Johnny once again shows Lyte the cup, the merchant and his clerks swear that Johnny has voluntarily returned the cup and confessed the theft., and Johnny barely escapes Lyte’s office and an attempt to kidnap him aboard an outgoing ship. He turns to Rab and takes a job as a horseback-riding deliverer of the Boston Observer by Rab’s uncle-Mr. Lorne.
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Questions: (You do not need to answer in complete sentences. Write page numbers of evidence for answers.)
1. What does Mr. Quincy warn Johnny about? (Evidence P.___)
2. How did Rab get Cilla to the courthouse? (Evidence P.___)
3. How does Johnny bring his cup to Mr. Lyte again? (Evidence P.___)
4. How does Mr. Lyte respond? (Evidence P.___)
5. Where does Johnny go right from Merchant Lyte’s? Why? (Evidence P.___)
6. What is Johnny’s new life? (Evidence P.___)
7. Johnny’s new job marks a turning point in his story. How will the change affect his life?
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Section 2
Summary Add two additional facts not covered in the summary from your reading.
Johnny must learn to ride Goblin which rebuilds his self-esteem. By reading the Observer, and listening to its patriots subscribers, Johnny becomes a well informed Whig. Johnny shares Rab’s room over the printing shop and dines at his Aunt and Uncle’s across the street.
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Section 3
Summary Add two additional facts not covered in the summary from your reading.
Johnny sees Cilla and Isannah fetching water from the pump in North Square. He promises to meet Cilla there every Thursday and Sunday afternoon and help her carry the water that Mr. Tweedie won’t let the apprentices stop work to retrieve.
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Section 4
Summary Add two additional facts not covered in the summary from your reading.
Rab’s calm temperament has a positive effect on Johnny. A newspaper-delivery meeting with Sam Adams brings Johnny another job-express riding for the Boston Committee of Correspondence.
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Questions: (You do not need to answer in complete sentences. Write page numbers of evidence for answers.)
1. What’s wrong with Goblin? (Evidence P.___)
2. How does Johnny learn to ride Goblin? (Evidence P.___)
3. How does Johnny’s new job change him? (Evidence P.___)
4. What is the attic the boys stay in also used for? (Evidence P.___)
5. What freedoms does Johnny have in his new job that he didn’t before? (Evidence P.___)
6. How do the Lornes treat Johnny? (Evidence P.___)
CHAPTER 6
“Salt-Water Tea”
Section 1
Summary Add two additional facts not covered in the summary from your reading.
In November of 1773, Sam Adams asks Mr. Lorne to print a placard to be posted throughout Boston. Johnny alerts the members of the Observer about a secret meeting.
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Section 2
Summary Add two additional facts not covered in the summary from your reading.
When Johnny delivers word of the meeting to Paul Revere so he can see Cilla and Isannah, he learns that things aren’t going so well in the Lapham’s household. Doctor Warren offers to look at Johnny’s hand but he declines. Johnny gets so caught up in his jobs and the rebel’s planning that he misses meetings with Cilla at the local square.
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Section 3
Summary Add two additional facts not covered in the summary from your reading.
While the Observers meet in Rab and Johnny’s attic, Johnny asks Rab what they are discussing. Samuel Adams swear them to secrecy and divulges the group’s plans .
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Questions: (You do not need to answer in complete sentences. Write page numbers of evidence for answers.)
1. Johnny shows he’s learned to write with his left hand. Do you think he would now take the job he almost got from Mr. Hancock two months previously if offered? Why or why not?
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2. What is Johnny’s role in alerting the Observers to a meeting? (Evidence P.___)
3. What does Johnny think of Lavinia Lyte? (Evidence P.___)
4. Why don’t John Adams and Josiah Quincy want James Otis to know about the meeting? (Evidence P.___)
5. Why do you suppose Johnny chooses not to show his hand to Dr. Warren? (Evidence P.___)
6. What secret are the boys told by Sam Adams? (Evidence P.___)
Section 4
Summary Add two additional facts not covered in the summary from your reading.
Rab assures Johnny will be part of the group Rab will lead. He encourages Johnny to practice chopping so he’ll be able to help break open the tea chests.
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Section 5
Summary Add two additional facts not covered in the summary from your reading.
As the third of the tea-bearing ships arrives in the harbor, large crowds gather.. Many of the patriots take their turns guarding the ships ensuring no harm came to them and that no tea was secretly unloaded.
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Section 6
Summary Add two additional facts not covered in the summary from your reading.
On the evening of December 16, Rab and others dress up in their Indian costumes and go to the three tea ships tied up at Griffin’s Wharf. They carry out their preplanned “tea party” dumping tea in the harbor. When Johnny points out Dove trying to pocket some of the tea for himself, Rab throws Dove overboard with the tea.
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Questions: (You do not need to answer in complete sentences. Write page numbers of evidence for answers.)
1. What keeps Johnny awake at night? (Evidence P.___)
2. Why are the tea ships stuck at Griffin’s Wharf? (Evidence P.___)
3. What are the preparations the night of the “tea party” ? (Evidence P.___)
4. What is Johnny’s job that night? (Evidence P.___)
5. Why are the tea chests more difficult than expected? (Evidence P.___)
6. What do Rab and Johnny do when they see Dove stealing tea? (Evidence P.___)
CHAPTER 7
“The Fiddler’s Bill”
Section 1
Summary Add two additional facts not covered in the summary from your reading.
England punishes Boston for the Tea Party by closing its ports which causes Boston’s economy to falter. Moderates embrace the patriot cause and colonies unify to help Boston. British soldiers are sent to Boston, and Johnny is a messenger for British soldiers so he can learn useful information to pass on to the patriot leaders.
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Section 2
Summary Add two additional facts not covered in the summary from your reading.
The colonies rally around Boston and help by sending food. Johnny finds Cilla with Rab in the Observer Office where he learns of Lavinia Lyte taking in Issanah as a “pet” and Cilla signing on as a housemaid. Johnny seems jealous when Rab walks Cilla back to the Lyte home.
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Questions: (You do not need to answer in complete sentences. Write page numbers of evidence for answers.)
1. What effect does the punishment of Boston have on the other colonies? (Evidence P.___)
2. How does the closing of the harbor affect the people of Boston? (Evidence P.___)
3. Who is to enforce British law in Boston? (Evidence P.___)
4. Why is Uncle Lorne determined to keep printing? (Evidence P.___)
5. What are the dangers of doing so? (Evidence P.___)
6. What do men throughout New England start doing? Why? (Evidence P.___)
7. Why is Rab struck by a British officer? (Evidence P.___)
8. What extra jobs does Johnny get? (Evidence P.___)
9. In what two ways are they helpful? (Evidence P.___)
10. Even with the port closed, why doesn’t Boston starve? (Evidence P.___)
11. What has changed with the Laphams since Johnny last talked to Cilla? (Evidence P.___)
Section 3
Summary Add two additional facts not covered in the summary from your reading.
Johnny works the stables and keeps an ear open for any news from the British soldiers; Dove also works at the stables. When Johnny learns the lieutenant wants to take Goblin for his Colonel, Johnny tricks him and earns the Colonels respect. Rab encourages Johnny to keep on good terms with Dove in case Dove learned when the British would march.
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Section 4
Summary Add two additional facts not covered in the summary from your reading.
Johnny recognizes that his feelings toward Dove and the Laphams have changed over the years. He no longer feels hatred or the desire for revenge. When he visits the Lapham household, he understands a bit more of the family.
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Section 5
Summary Add two additional facts not covered in the summary from your reading.
Johnny visits Cilla at the Lyte mansion and discovers how Cilla is treated. As Lavinia prepare for the ball, Johnny’s sassiness leads to his expulsion from the room. Mrs. Bessie, the Lytes’ cook, confides in Johnny the fate that awaits the Lytes during their trip to Milton.