Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes


Chapter 1
What information do we have about Johnny?  What is his trade?  His past?  What is a major character flaw he suffers from?
Vocabulary:
breeches (2)
infernal (3)
venerable (8)
patron (13)
vulgarity (15)

Chapter 2
Describe the nature of Johnny's injury.  How will it affect his job?  Who was responsible?  Are they punished?
Vocabulary:
feeble (27)
mundane (30)
poultice (34)
abate (35)
maimed (38)
innumerable (39)
loiter (41)

Chapter 3
How does Johnny choose to spend the money he is given?  Does he spend it well?  What is your opinion?
Vocabulary:
aloof (47)
arrogant (52)
ciphering (56)
gorge (58)
chagrine (59)

Chapter 4
How does Johnny defend himself in court?  How might his mother have come into possession of the cup?
Vocabulary:
santuary (67)
elated (69)
strife (71)
nonchalance (75)
effigy (77)

Chapter 5
What responsibilities does Johnny have at his new job?  How has his life improved because of the change?
Vocabulary:
timid (91)
ardent (94)
pious (98)
enmity (100)
flourish (102)

Chapter 6
What historically important figures have played a part in this story?  What other information do you have about these individuals?
Vocabulary:
placard (106)
obdurate (108)
lamentable (109)
elope (113)
devulge (118)

Chapter 7
How has Lavinia Lyte changed the Lapham household?  Is it for the better or the worse?
Vocabulary:
paroxysm (129)
sedition (131)
filch (133)
prodigious (149)
imprudent (154)

Chapter 8
What are people willing to give up to fight the revolution against England?  Do you think their sacrifice worth it?
Vocabulary:
loiter (166)
courting (172)
lucid (175)
placate (177)

Chapter 9
What is Pumpkin's punishment?  How did he earn it?  Do you think it fits his crime?
Vocabulary:
trivial (183)
ardent (191)
stoic (197)

Chapter 10
How are the rebels able to gain information about the British?  Who puts themselves in danger in order to get it?
Vocabulary:
ardor (204)
qualm (207)
dilapidated (214)

Chapter 11
What is the truth about Johnny's relationship to the Lyte family?
Vocabulary:
haggard (220)
idle (229)
protegee (231)

Chapter 12
What does the story story of Johnny say to you about the nature of war?
Vocabulary:
gloat (240)

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