The Year of the Hangman

“Three Question Worksheet”

Directions: 1.After reading your assigned chapter, answer the following 3 questions with your other group members. Be as detailed as possible! 2. Then, while listening to the panel discussion of the rest of the chapters, answer the rest of the questions as well.

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Chapter 11: ______(catchy title)

1. What happens, step by step, with The Liberty Tree? (List the 4 steps)

  1. Creighton makes a ______of The Liberty Tree.
  2. Creighton ______it to find out what the controversy is all about.
  3. Creighton realizes part of it is written in ______.
  4. Creighton figures out the ______using Ben Franklin’s ______.

2. What two very different feelings does Creighton feel about his discovery of The Liberty Tree? Why does he feel these ways?

3. What big news does Peter bring at the end of the chapter?

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Chapter 12: ______(catchy title)

1. At the beginning of the chapter, Benedict Arnold is going to be in a duel. What is Ben Franklin’s attitude about this? What does he do about it?

2. What does the information you gathered in #1 tell you about Franklin’s personality?

3. What does Creighton do after the duel that involves Peter? Who is Creighton trying to help?

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Chapter 13: ______(catchy title)

1. Explain the events, step by step, that occur the night Creighton goes to the Cabildo to see his uncle. (List the 9 steps)

  1. Creighton ______of Franklin’s house with the ______.
  2. Creighton tries to give the ______to ______through the ______.
  3. The ______catches onto the ______and accidentally ______.
  4. The ______come out to see what all the commotion is about.
  5. ______takes the ______hostage.
  6. ______and ______tie the ______up.
  7. ______, ______, and ______all escape.
  8. ______hits ______on the ______.
  9. ______and ______leave ______.

2. What story does Creighton tell Franklin about his night?

3. What is the last thing Franklin says in Chapter 13? Why is this important?

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Chapter 14: ______(catchy title)

1. What does Creighton worry about and then finally come to a new conclusion about in the middle of the night regarding his uncle and his uncle’s plan?

2. While Creighton is playing cards with Peter and the men at the Café de Exiles, what does he unexpectedly find out? Be very specific.

3. Peter tells Creighton that he doesn’t think of Harry Brown as a traitor, but rather as a hero. Explain. What is your opinion?

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Chapter 15: ______(catchy title)

1. Why does Benedict Arnold storm in so angry and what secret does he officially give away to Creighton? Who do we learn is missing and how was he captured?

2. What metaphor does Franklin use to convey why the Americans were unable to win the war? What does the metaphor mean?

3. Recount the events the night of the fire:

I. Creighton wakes to see men dressed as ______putting ______

on the ______.

II. Without thinking, Creighton runs out and ______, letting two

others get away.

III. ______runs out and agrees to run and sound the alarm.

IV. Franklin insists they save ______and runs into the burning building

with Creighton.

Why do you think this is? ______

V. After a few trips, Creighton tells Franklin, “______,” but Franklin ______.

VI. The roof begins to ______and Creighton ______

to save ______without success.

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Chapter 16: ______(catchy title)

1. Who had the printing shop burned down? Whose fault is it really?

2. Arnold says that “men who have never been on a battlefield imagine that it requires a good deal of courage.” Define what Arnold says real courage is and why fighting a battle is not courageous. What is Creighton’s concern over Arnold’s advice?

3. What feels like an “unfamiliar and inhospitable place” to Creighton and why?

** pg’s 177-181 hold a life changing moment for Creighton. I STRONGLY suggest you all take the time to read them!

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Chapter 17: ______(catchy title)

1. How does Creighton feel about cleaning up the rubble of the printing shop?

2. What do Creighton and Peter argue about as they clean up the rubble of the printing shop? Give Creighton’s point of view as well as Peter’s.

3. What is Benedict Arnold’s plan for finding where Washington is hidden? Who is involved and what makes Creighton feel a “painful twinge” on his head?

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Chapter 18: ______(catchy title)

Why does Peter want to be left out of the plan and how does Creighton make this happen? What becomes Peter’s mission?

Fill in the blanks for what happens when Arnold and Creighton arrive at Colonel Gower’s state house:

I. At first Creighton doesn’t recognize ______because he’s so ______.

II. Colonel Gower shows no ______when he see’s his nephew, but dryly adds that Creighton saved him the trouble of ______, which Creighton knew he would have

never done.

III. Gower believes Arnold will be a ______to them and doesn’t appear to be ______his

choice to become a ______at all.

IV. Gower asks Hale to find suitable quarters for his ______, which takes Arnold by surprise.

V. Arnold passes the test when Gower asks him if he’d like ______or ______.

Describe Hale and Creighton’s conversation at the end of Chapter 18.