Tharp+Emma

Tharp Emma Johnny Tremain __**Unit 1: Up and About**__ __Chapter 1__ __Chapter 3__ __Chapter 4__ __Chapter 6__ __**Unit 2 The Pride of Your Power**__ __Chapter 1__ __Chapter 3__ __Chapter 5__ __Chapter 1__ __Chapter 3__ __**Unit 4 The Rising Eye**__ __Chapter 1__ __Chapter 2__ __Chapter 5__ __Chapter 2__ __Chapter 3 and 4__ __**Unit 6 Salt-Water Tea**__ __Chapter 5__ __**Unit 7 The Fiddler's Bill**__ __Chapter 1__ __Chapter 2__ __Chapter 3__ __Chapter 4__ __Chapter 5__ __Chapter 1__ __Chapter 2__ __Chapter 5__ __**Unit 9 The Scarlet Deluge**__ __Chapter 1__ __Chapter 3__ __Chapter 5__ __**Unit 10 Disperse, Ye Rebels**__ __Chapter 1__ __Chapter 2__ __Chapter 4__ __**Unit 11 Yankee Doodle**__ __Chapter 1__ __Chapter 3__ __Chapter 4__ __Chapter 5__ __**Unit 12 A Man Can Stand Up**__ __Chapter 1__ __Chapter 2__ __Chapter 3__ __Chapter 5__
 * 1) Johnny Tremain was the leader of the silversmith apprentices in the Lapham household on Hancock Wharf.
 * 2) Dove doesn't like Johnny because he finds it rude that Johnny tells him what to do. He is jealous of Johnny because everyone liked him, Mr. Lapham, Mrs. Lapham, her four daughters, and the boys in the other shops on the Wharf.
 * 1) Johnny is very serious about his work, and he plans to have a shop that can get its own charcoal for the furnace. Also he would talk to the boys who wanted to be the apprentices, not their parents. Lastly, he would have 2 armchairs, one for the person ordering something, and one for him.
 * 2) The light in which the patriots and their beliefs were presented in was Mr. Lapham was talking to Johnny about why Mr. Hancock gave the boys a silver coin. He said that they were just trying to stir up trouble with England, and they didn't read the bible like their parents did. Mr. Lapham spoke poorly of the patriots and didn't like them.
 * 1) This shows that Johnny really wants to get the sugar basin right for Mr. Hancock. Also he is really determined to become a master silversmith.
 * 1) The crest looked like an eye coming up out of the sea, and rays, or lashes, came up out of it. It gives it a feeling of someting mystic and different.
 * 1) Johnny turned down Paul Revere's offer because the Lapham's would starve without him there making sure they get everything done.
 * 1) The events leading up to Johnny's accident were: he asked Mrs. Lapham to get him a crucible, she didnt know what he was talking about so Dove said he would get it. Dove purposely grabbed the cracked crusible from the back. The crack was too small for Johnny to see. Johnny almost left the silver in the furnace too long, and went to get it out but the crucible broke. The silver started spilling on the furnace so Johnny stuck is other hand in to save it, but burned his hand while doing so.
 * 1) Johnny's accident changes his life by making him unable to be a silversmith. Mr. Lapham tells Johnny that he needs to begin looking for a new trade because he can no longer teach him to be a silversmith. He tells Johnny that he can stay as long as he likes if he keeps doing the chores that he is asked to do.
 * __Unit 3 An Earth of Brass__**
 * 1) When Rab sees Johnny's hand he doesn't say anything about it, instead he gave Johnny an intelligent remark about how it was a recent burn. Johnny likes Rab, he is the first person Johnny tells his story to. He feels like he can trust Rab, and feels more confident after leaving the printers shop after he ate and talked with Rab.
 * 1) As a silver smith Johnny works with a lot of different materials, he probably used some brass at times.
 * 1) Merchant Lyte is very mean to Johnny when he comes in. When Johnny tells him what his mother told him to say Merchant Lyte told him that every young poor boy came in and told him the same lie, and told Sewall to throw Johnny into the ocean.
 * 1) The Whig's thought that the Stamp Act was unfair, and that there shouldn't be taxation without representation. The Tories, however, felt that they should listen to whatever Britain said because they didn't think that they could get on without British rule. The Tories felt it was fair even though they were not represented in Parliment.
 * 1) The forms of criminal punisment that are mentioned to lend historical accuracy were the gallows, and how they used them to hang thieves.
 * 2) The court decision favors Johnny because of Cilla and Isannah's testimony about Johnny showing them the cup, and telling them the story about his real name.
 * __Unit 5 The Boston Observer__**
 * 1) Johnny's responsibilities as a messenger was to deliver newspapers to the areas on his route, and tell the people about what was going on with the political parties. He is an important link in the Whig's communication system because he had a lot of information about everything going on, and could tell the people on his route if something important was going on.
 * 1) Johnny likes what he is now doing and is enjoying himself. Also he is very homesick of the Laphams, mainly Cilla and Isannah.
 * 2) People tend to live up to the expectations of others because we feel that since everyone else thinks we are that way we should be that way. Even though we really weren't that way to start, but people say that that's what we are going to be so we follow what they say.
 * 3) Rab asks Johnny why he is so quick to be mean to people. If he just counted to ten whenever he got mad he wouldn't be so quick to yell at the person who had made him mad.
 * 4) The Observers' Club is a treasonous organization because it is people plotting against British rule. Plotting against your country's rule is treasonous in all countries.
 * 1) Johnny must learn how to use an axe with is bad hand.
 * 1) England closes Boston's sea port until the tea is paid for.
 * 2) The punishment unites the colonies by showing the other colonies that the people of Boston had just as many issues with Britain as they did. Knowing this brought them closer together, and the other colonies started helping Boston
 * 1) The gallows were not constructed to punish rebels and the presses weren't prohibited from printing treasonouse statements, because General Gage didnt want to cause more problems between them and Boston. Also he hoped that if there was no violence between them and Boston they would eventually settle the conflict.
 * 1) Lieutenant Stranger isn't angry with Johnny because he thought of what Johnny did as a good joke..
 * 2) He helped Dove because he knew that he was really a Tory, and also because they needed to help their fellow countrymen.
 * 1) Johnny finally realizes that Mrs. Lapham was just trying to get things done and was fighting for the people that she was taking care of. He finally respects her.
 * 1) Sam Adams' spy is Mrs Bessie, the Lyte's cook and housekeeper.
 * __Unit 8 A World to Come__**
 * 1) The mob is pursuing the Lytes because the don't want them in Milton because the Lytes support the King. They were pursuing them also because they were mad that the Lytes had tried to escape.
 * 1) The information that the Bible reveals about Johnny's ancestory is his mother's name was almost scratched off from the page and he found out that the Lavinia Lyte that was born when is mother was married a Doctor Charles Latour. These two sapposedly died shortly before his birth from a plague in Marseilles.
 * 2) Johnny's statement refers to the coming of the war. The end of British rule and the beginning of a new rule.
 * 1) The freedom that James Otis proposes to procure the people is the type that shows people that they don't have to sit around and take all the nonsense that their government throws at them. Its the type that will show everyone around the world that having certain freedoms will make things better.
 * 1) "The scarlet Deluge" is the British solider Lieutenant Stranger's letter to Lavinia Lyte's party because he was going help refortify a fort 60 miles north. Johnny recieved one of his torn up notes from Lydia who worked at the Afric Queen, he was able to get this information to Paul Revere who went up to the fort to try to take it over before they refortified it.
 * 1) At the beginning of the novel Johnny didn't appreciate the things his mother had given him. Now Johnny realizes all the love and effort in the items his mother made for him.
 * 2) The minute men are preparing for war by making their own bullets to shoot out of their guns.
 * 1) As Johnny looks into "the face of death", he feels frightened, but also (for a moment) glad that his hand was messed up so that he could not fight in the upcoming war.
 * 1) The British soldiers are moving about polishing canons and getting boats ready. Also Johnny could see a gleam in general Stranger's eye and Stranger was being unusuallly nice to Dove.
 * 2) The patriots plan to go into the clock tower at the Christ's Church, put one lantern up if the British go out over Neck, 2 if the British go over water, and Paul Revere will get out and tell people exactly what is happening. The warning will help the patriots to get the minute men out to stop the British before they do anything bad.
 * 1) Rab decides to leace Boston because he is sure that the war was going to begin, and he needed to get out before the first gun shot was fired. Johnnny is upset about Rab's decision because he doesn't want Rab to die, and he will miss him very much.
 * 1) Billy Dawes is exciting the armed rebellion by going out of Boston to tell the Minute Men that the British are on the move. Paul Revere is riding a horse through Concord to warn the people, and to tell the Minute Men to get ready.
 * 2) Johnny goes to tell Robert Newman to light two lanterns in the spire in Christ's Church.
 * 1) The first battle is in Lexington, and the Minute Men are defeated because they were outnumbered.
 * 1) The British are unable to punish the opposition leaders because they have all left Boston already.
 * 1) The detail about Johnny that convinced Lavinia to find out about Johnny's past is the widow's peak in his hair that was like his mothers.
 * 1) Johnny calls himself "A boy in time of peace and a man in time of war," because he feels that 16 year olds, like himself, are boys when there is peace, but men when there is war.
 * 1) Johnny rolls in some mud, tears his jacket, cuts his wrist and puts the blood on his face, and stomps on his hat to make him look as though he was wounded.
 * 1) Johnny is amazed that the rebels beat the British because the British soldiers were so well trained, and had a lot of equipment, and the rebels weren't and didn't.
 * 1) Johnny is thinking how stupid yet brave the rebels were for fighting there even though they were so outnumbered. He is sad for the men who died.
 * 1) Rab dies because the doctors do not yet know how to stop blood from dripping out of people's mouths. Johnny is sad and stunned at first, but quickly remembers things that Rab has said and feels better.
 * 2) Johnny feels like a different person, and isn't thinking about his hand anymore because he has other things to worry about.
 * 3) In the beginning of the book Johnny was really cocky, rude, and thought that he was the best. Now that he has gotton older he has becomes less cocky and way nicer.