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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.
_____Vocabulary Cards
_____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
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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)
DAY 1
Johnny Tremain
CONTINUED
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
-logy
(-ology)
Prefix
Meaning
The study of
dis(di-; dif-)
-tion
State of, forms
nouns
-ate
to make, cause,
act
capable of,
susceptible of, fit
for, tending to,
im(in-, em-,en)
per-
separation,
apart, in
different
directions
In, on, amongst,
within
-able
Word from
JT/Page
Through,
thorroughly
Word from
JT/Page
given to
DAY 1
READING QUESTIONS
CONTINUED
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?
(Evidence P.___)
DAY 2
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.___)
DAY 3
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?
(Evidence P.___)
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.___)
DAY 4
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
practice chopping so he’ll be able to help break open the tea chests.
to
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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.___)
DAY 5
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.___)
DAY 6
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.
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Questions: (You do not need to answer in complete sentences. Write page numbers of evidence for
answers.)
1. How has the Afric Queen changed? (Evidence P.___)
2. Why does Dove turn up there? (Evidence P.___)
3. How does Johnny keep Lieutenant Stranger from commandeering Goblin? (Evidence P.___)
4. Why does Johnny need to tolerate Dove’s company more than he ordinarily would?
(Evidence P.___)
5. What does Johnny realize about Mrs. Lapham now that he’s a bit older? (Evidence P.___)
6. What does Mrs. Bessie tell Johnny about the Lytes moving out to Milton? (Evidence P.___)
DAY 7
CHAPTER 8
“A World to Come”
Section 1
Summary Add two additional facts not covered in the summary from your reading.
When the Lytes return from their country home in Milton, they are in disarray barely escaping from a
mob stirred up and led by the Sons of Liberty. Cilla insists on going back to Milton for the Lytes’ silver
and Johnny plans to go with her.
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Section 2
Summary Add two additional facts not covered in the summary from your reading.
At the Lytes’ house Johnny finds the family Bible with the Lyte genealogy, and his mother’s name has
been scratched out. He now knows he is part of the family but wants no part of them. He rejects the cup
and burns the page of genealogy.
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Section 3
Summary Add two additional facts not covered in the summary from your reading.
Rab is caught while trying to purchase a stolen British musket. The farmer who arranged the theft is
tarred and feathered. Rab is released because he is a “boy” which at first makes him angry. Later he and
Johnny laugh over it, and the British announce all will be treated the same if caught trying to buy British
weapons.
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Questions: (You do not need to answer in complete sentences. Write page numbers of evidence for
answers.)
1. Why does Cilla want to return to Milton? (Evidence P.___)
2. What does Johnny find while looking through the Lyte home in Milton? (Evidence P.___)
3. What does Johnny find out about his family? (Evidence P.___)
4. Why doesn’t Johnny take his cup back? (Evidence P.___)
5. Why doesn’t Johnny think the Lytes will return to the Milton house? (Evidence P.___)
6. What bothers Rab as conflict with the British gets closer? (Evidence P.___)
7. What happens when Rab tries to get a gun from a British soldier? (Evidence P.___)
8. What threat are the British soldiers making to the printers? (Evidence P.___)
DAY 8
Section 4
Summary Add two additional facts not covered in the summary from your reading.
Cilla and Johnny talk about the future and decide that the name Priscilla is a fine name.
Johnny is jealous when he finds out Cilla and Rab had gone out walking and he bought her sweets.
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Section 5
Summary Add two additional facts not covered in the summary from your reading.
That fall, the Observers had a final meeting above the print shop. Sam Adams states it is too late to try to
patch up differences with England. Johnny and Rab both are influenced by James Otis when he said that
the reason they should go to war is to secure the rights of people in every part of the world to “choose
who it is shall rule” over them.
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Questions: (You do not need to answer in complete sentences. Write page numbers of evidence for
answers.)
1. How does Cilla get Johnny jealous? (Evidence P.___)
2. What does Johnny consider the apple a symbol for? (Evidence P.___)
3. Why does San Adams feel the Observers can only risk one more meeting as a whole group?
(Evidence P.___)
4. How does Sam Adams respond when asked if he will work for peace? Why? (Evidence P.___)
5. What are the different reasons for fighting offered by Sam Adams, Rab, and James Otis?
(Evidence P.___)
6. What does Otis imply the price of freedom is? (Evidence P.___)
7. What does Otis’s analogy “they shall see freedom like a new sun rising in the west” mean?
(Evidence P.___)
8. What sacrifices does Otis say different people at the meeting will have to make? (Evidence
P.___)
9. How does Otis’s statement”…we fight, we die, for a simple thing. Only that a man can stand up”
relate to the theme of freedom in the novel? (Evidence P.___)
10. What do the last two sentences in the chapter mean? (Evidence P.___)
DAY 9
Johnny Tremain
Figurative Language
Review the definitions and examples for simile,
metaphor, analogy, idiom, and personification in your reading guide.
Then determine which category each of these phrases from the novel falls
into and its meaning. Some may fit in two categories.
‘If anyone is hung for stealing cups, it won’t be me. Wharf-rat
am I? You gallows bird.’
Simile
Metaphor
Analogy Idiom
Meaning:
And across the vast, blue sky, white clouds hurried before
the wind, like sheep before invisible wolves.
Personification
Simile
Metaphor
Analogy Idiom
Meaning:
Each hand looked as large as a bunch of bananas.
Meaning:
Personification
Simile
Metaphor
Analogy Idiom
Personification
For a little while it had been touch-and-go with him. If
pushed a little farther, he might have taken to crime.
Simile
Metaphor
Analogy Idiom
Meaning:
Personification
The butcher’s boy was a well-known tyrant.
Meaning:
Simile
Metaphor
Analogy Idiom
Personification
Mr. Lyte, in his effort to play both ends against the middle,
did take the Observer.
Meaning:
But he had on going to the Observer entered a new, vast,
and exciting world.
Simile
Metaphor
Analogy Idiom
Personification
Simile
Metaphor
Analogy Idiom
Meaning:
The ships were held at Griffin’s Wharf as though under an
enchantment.
Personification
Simile
Metaphor
Analogy Idiom
Meaning:
Beside him was Sam Adams, whispering and whispering.
Johnny thought how the Tories were saying that Sam
Adams seduced John Hancock, even as the Devil had
seduced Eve – by a constant whispering in his ear.
Meaning:
Rab picked up the fat Dove as though he were a rag baby
and flung him into the harbor.
Meaning:
Personification
Simile
Metaphor
Analogy Idiom
Personification
Simile
Metaphor
Analogy Idiom
Personification
‘You’ve had a fine, pleasant evening for your Indian caper,
haven’t you? But mind, you’ve got to pay the fiddler yet.’
Meaning:
This closing of the port of Boston was indeed tyranny; this
was oppression; this was the last straw upon the back of
many a moderate man.
Meaning:
Now the ships were lying like dead birds along her
wharves.
Simile
Metaphor
Analogy Idiom
Personification
Simile
Metaphor
Analogy Idiom
Personification
Simile
Metaphor
Analogy Idiom
Meaning:
Personification
‘What put Ma right through the roof was when he said he was
in no hurry.’
Simile
Metaphor
Meaning:
Analogy Idiom
Personification
Suddenly Johnny saw red. He hated Miss Lavinia and the
giggling officers and Isannah.
Meaning:
Simile
Metaphor
Analogy Idiom
Personification
Each time a shutter groaned, protested, and then came
to with a bang, it seemed to say, ‘This is the end.’
Simile
Metaphor
Meaning:
Analogy Idiom
Personification
‘So we hold up our torch – and do not forget that it was
lighted upon the fires of England – and we will set it as a
new sun to lighten a world . .’
Meaning:
Simile
Metaphor
Analogy Idiom
Personification
DAY 10
Literature Groups
With your group, complete the following: (Page numbers not required for ques 1-2.)
1. Do you think the Bostonians are justified in their reaction to the tax on tea? Why or why not?
2. Do you think Britain’s response is fair? Explain.
3. Esther Forbes combines fact and fiction as she tells the story of the events leading to the American
Revolution. The major events Forbes describes, such as the Boston Tea Party and the closing of Boston
Harbor, actually occurred. As you read, summarize the major events listed in the boxes on the left. In the
right-hand boxes, note how each event affects (1) Johnny on a personal level and the (2) Patriot movement
on a political level. (You do not need to answer in complete sentences. Write page numbers of evidence
for answers.)
Event
Boston Tea Party
(Evidence page_____)
Effects
1.(Evidence page_____)
Closing of Boston Harbor
(Evidence page_____)
1.(Evidence page_____)
2.(Evidence page_____)
2.(Evidence page_____)
Rebellious Act of Sons of Liberty
and Observers
(Evidence page_____)
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1.(Evidence page_____)
2.(Evidence page_____)
DAY 11
Quiz Chapter 5-8 November 6