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Book Summary For Johnny Tremain

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  • Common Core alignment to "Reading: Literature and Subject-related Content" is to 3 key phrases: "Particular Topic", "Context" and "Reading Literature". CCSS Alignment Strand Numbers for Specific Grades: Particular Topic: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: 4.6. 5.6, 6.6, 7.6, 8.6, 9-10.6, 11-12.6 Context: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: 2.4a, 3.4a, 4.4a, 5.4a, 6.4a, 7.4a, 8.4a, 9-10.4a, 11-12.4a Reading: Literature: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: RL.2.4, RL.3.4, RL.4.4. RL.5.4, RL.6.4, RL.7.4, RL.8.4, RL.9-10.4, RL.11-12.4 Reading: Informational Text: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: RI.2.4, RI.3.4, RI.4.4. RI.5.4, RI.6.4, RI.7.4, RI.8.4, RI.9-10.4, RI.11-12.4
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A vocabulary word list for Johnny Tremain is arranged in order of appearance:

  • Chapter I: Up and About (pp. 1-31)
    Chapter 1: granaries, apprentice, stout, wallow, breeches, swinish, infernally, blandly, flaccid, annealing, revel, ethereal, spindly, innumerable, crucible
    Chapter 2: venerable, groping, deacon, gruel, petticoat, genteel, snicker, trencher, pious, divot, pinafore
    Chapters 3-6: splayed, cheeky, affluence, garlands, repousse, replica, kinship

  • Chapter II: The Pride of Your Power (pp. 32-49)
    Chapters 1-5: scroll, beaux, tyranny, eloquence, piteous, insufferable, poultice, laudanum, yoke, hearth, piety

  • Chapter III: An Earth of Brass (pp. 50-72)
    Chapters 1-5: genial, frayed, unruffled, aloof, maimed, belligerent, arrogance, diffidently, impotence, gumption, gallows, spinster, tattered, ciphering, wattles

  • Chapter IV: The Rising Eye (pp. 71-92)
    Chapters 1-5: sanctuary, exuberant, sniveling, translucent, repeal, Tories, Whig, hurly-burly, spinet, regal, apparition, nonchalance, florid, pallet, perturbed, taut, enigmatic, imposture

  • Chapter V: The Boston Observer (pp. 93-113)
    Chapters 1-4: seditious, fallow, repentance, scurvy, knave, fagots, smooch, equitation, talon, cavorting, notoriously, wary, dawdling, surtout, careen, atrophy, abet, expansive, truss

  • Chapter VI: Salt-Water Tea (pp. 114-138)
    Chapters 1-6: grievance, placard, treason, obdurate, scullery, forlorn, sullen, pullet, truckle bed, unison, persevere, soot, demeanor, jargon

  • Chapter VII: The Fiddler\’s Bill (pp. 139-166)
    Chapters 1-5: paroxysm, submission, gesticulate, oppression, berth, wharf (wharves), inundate, yokel, misdemeanor, fret, gawky, contradict, commandeer, ruefully, belligerently, provincials, ogress, rowel, lascivious, impudent

  • Chapter VIII: A World To Come (pp. 167-193)
    Chapters 1-5: milling about, fripperies, routed, chaise, lucid, intoxicated

  • Chapter IX: The Scarlet Deluge (pp. 194-213)
    Chapters 1-5: enmity, garrulous, indolent, concoction, maudlin, bilious, lassitude, qualm

  • Chapter X: \”Disperse Ye Rebels\”! (pp. 214-230)
    Chapters 1-4: queue, impersonate, disconsolate, sullenly, garret, quiver, inebriated, disperse

  • Chapter XI: Yankee Doodle (pp. 231-250)
    Chapters 1-5: haggard, lenient, glibly, sundry, tremolo, maliciously

  • Chapter XII: A Man Can Stand Up (pp. 251-269)
    Chapters 1-5: trod, prophecy, gaudy, doff, belfry, gawk, trivial, jubilant

    Thank you, Janice Cook, a former teacher at Sacred Heart Prep in Atherton, California, for being the teacher contributor at www.myVocabulary.com for a vocabulary word list for Johnny Tremain written by Esther Forbes.