Bagby+Braden

Bagby Braden


 * Johnny Tremain**

__**Unit 1 Up And About**__
__Chapter 1:__ 1.**What is Johnny's position in the Lapham household?** A: Johnny was like a boss of the house. A: Dove hated the way Johnny could command him around, and he hated Johnny.
 * 2. How do Dove and Johnny feel about each other?**

__Chapter 3:__ A:Johnny was serious about his work becauese he had to work there. He couldn't go anywhere else because parents were dead. A: The patriots are presented as not reading the Bible, and they aren't humble.
 * 1: How serious is Johnny about his work, and what are his plans for the future?**
 * 2: * The first reference to the Patriots and their troubles with England is made at the end of this chapter. In what light are the Patriots and their beliefs presented?**

__Chapter 4:__ A:Johnny really wants his work to be done, and he considers his work important.
 * 1: Johhnny works while Mr. Lapham sleeps and Dove and Dusty go swimming. What does this show about Johnny and his feelings towards his work?**

__Chapter 6:__ A:The crest of the Lytes is a symbol of an eye rising from the sea, and the eye has lashes streaming out of it. It is Mr. Hancocks symbol. The crest of the Lytes is to make people think that all of Mr. Lytes' work is amazing.
 * 1: What does the crest of the Lytes look like? What feelings does it convey?****

=__**UNIT 2: The Pride of Your Power**__= __Chapter 1:__ A:Johnny doesn't take Paul Revere's offer because if he left the Laphams nothing would get done, and the Laphams would starve.
 * 1. Why does Johnny turn down Paul Revere's offer?**

__Chapter 3:__ A:Dove giving Johnny a cracked cruciful, the cruciful collapsing, and Johnny falling lead up to Johnny's accident.
 * 1. What are the small important events leading to Johnny's accident?**

__Chapter 5:__ A:Dove and Dusty become more valuable than Johnny, and Johnny is left with all the chores.
 * 1. How does Johnny's life change as a result of the accident and why?**

=__**Unit 3: An Earth of Brass**__= __Chapter 1:__ A: Rab doesn't react with disgustance. Rab asks an intelligent question about it. Johnny likes Rab because he sees everything and says nothing.
 * 1. How does Rab react to Johnny's maimed hand, and what does Johnny think of Rab?**

__Chapter 3:__ A: Brass is a dull boring medal, and Johnny's life is dull, boring, and pointless right now.
 * 1. How does the secton title, "Earth of Brass", relate to Johnny's life, especially his professional life as a silversmith?**

=__**Unit 4: The Rising Eye**__= __Chapter 1:__ A: Merchant Lyte is rude, and mean. He doesn't believe that Johnny is related to him. He throws Johnny out without an explanation.
 * 1. What is merchant Lyte like?**

__Chapter 5:__ A: The book mentions that Johnny is scared he might be hanged for being accused of stealing a cup. Hanging was what happened back in the American Revolution War time.
 * 1. What forms of criminal punishment are mentioned to lend historical accuracy to the novel?**

A: The court decision favors Johnny because there is no evidence that Johnny stole the cup, and because Cilla testified for Johnny. =__**Unit 5: The Boston Observer**__= __Chapter 2:__ A: Johnny's responsibilities as a messenger are delivering the newspaper to the subscribers. Johnny could travel far on his horse and go to the same place often. This allowed him to share information between Whigs.
 * 2. Why does the court decision favor Johnny?****
 * 1. What are Johnny's responsibilities as a messenger? Why is he an important link in the Whig's communication system?**

__Chapter 3 and 4:__ A: Johnny likes his life since he left the Laphams. He doesn't mind all the changes, and he feels his life is going in the right direction.
 * 1. How does Johnny feel about the great differences in his life since he left the Laphams?**

A: People tend to live up to the expectations of others because they think that's who they're suppose to be, just because others think that's who they're suppose to be.
 * 2. Think about this statement: "If pushed a little further, he might have taken to crime - because that was what was expected of him." Why do people tend to live up to the expectations of others.**

A: Rab helps Johnny learn to think before he speaks. Johnny uses this, and he learns it works really good.
 * 3. What suggestions does Rab give Johnny to improve his relationships with people?**

A: The Observers' Club is considered treasonous because they publish things in their newspaper that say bad things about the government. Also, the club meets secretly, and talks about treasonous things.
 * 4. Why is the Observers' Club a treasonous organization?**

=**__Unit 6: Salt-Water Tea__**= __Chapter 5:__ A: Johnny must be able to chop with an axe to be part in the Tea Party? Johnny practices chopping with just one hand.
 * 1. What skill must Johnny develope to play a part in the Tea Party?**

=**__Unit 7: The Fiddler's Bill__**=

__Chapter 1:__ A: England imposed a bill on the colonist that made them pay off the tea. Also Boston's port was closed until the tea was paid for. Because of the port being closed, Boston wouldn't be able to get any food. Boston thought they would starve.
 * 1. What punishment does England impose on the colonist for the Boston Tea Party?**

A: The other colonies saw how mean the punishment was, so they all thought bad things about England. Also to keep Boston from starving the other colonies had to help send food to Boston. This made all the colonies united because they were working together.
 * 2. How does this punishment unite the separate colonies?**

__Chapter 3:__ A: Lieuitenant Stranger really likes the horse, and wants Johnny to help him learn to ride it. Also, Lieutenant Stranger wants to buy the horse from Johnny. Lieutenant Stranger is drunk.
 * 1. Why isn't Lieuitenant Stranger angry with Johnny for deliberately upsetting the horse?**

A: Johnny felt sorry for dove. The British stable boys who tease Dove respect Johnny, and Johnny doesn't feel like he has to get popular by making fun of others. Johnny also had to keep in touch with Dove so they would know if the British were going to make a move.
 * 2. Johnny protects Dove when the English boys tease him. Why has Johnny changed?**

__Chapter 4:__ A: Johnny doesn't hate Mrs. Lapham anymore because he realized that Mrs. Lapham works really hard for all of her familie's needs.
 * 1. How have Johnny's feelings changed towards Mrs. Lapham and why?**

__Chapter 5:__ A: Mrs. Besse has been Sam Adams' spy for many years.
 * 1. Who is Sam Adams' spy in the Lyte household?**

=__**Unit 8: A World To Come**__=

__Chapter 1:__ A: The mob does not like the Lytes. The Lytes were supporters of the British, and Boston didn't like the British. The mob was chasing them away. The people of Milton had had enough of the Lytes.
 * 1.** **Why is the mob pursuing the Lytes?**

__Chapter 2:__ A: The Bible reveals that Johnny's dad was Doctor Charles Latour, and Johnny is merchant Lyte's grandnephew.
 * 1. What information does the Bible reveal about Johnny's ancestory?**

A: Johnny is talking about the civil war. The Lytes will never come back because the civil war will start. It's the end of the Lytes, and Britains rule.
 * 1. Johnny says, "This is the end. The end of one thing- the beginning of something else." To what events does Johnny's statement refer?**

__Chapter 5:__ A: James Otis wants freedom for everyone, for all of time. Otis also wants the freedom to choose your own rulers. Otis wants the natural rights God gave everyone.
 * 1. James Otis wants to fight for freedom for "men and women and children all over the world." What freedom does he propose to procure for people?**

=__**Unit 9: The Scarlet Deluge**__= __Chapter 1:__ A: Deluge means flood or downpoor, so a scarlet deluge would be a downpoor of blood. The scarlet deluge is talking about what Lieutenant Stranger is going to do at Fort William and Mary. He also might be talking about all the British Troops that will be coming soon.
 * 1.** **What is "the scarlet deluge"?**

__Chapter 3:__ A: Johnny cares more about Dove, and tries to be helpful to other people instead of just thinking about himself. A: Minute men are making their own guns, ammo, and gunpowder in preparation for the war.
 * 1. How has Johnny changed from the beginning of the novel to this chapter?**
 * 2. How are the Minute Men preparing for war?**

__Chapter 5:__ A: Johnny doubted his physical courage, and he was glad he had a crippled hand (so he would never have to be behind the musket) when he looked into the face of death.
 * 1.** **As Johnny looks into the "face of death" how does he feel?**

=__**Unit 10: 'Disperse, Ye Rebels!'**__=

__Chapter 1:__ A: General Gage sent spies out, the light infantry was to take off duty, and Colonel Smith's face showed something was up. Lieutenant Stranger also was really happy, which meant something was probably about to happen.
 * 1.** **What occurrences lead the patriots to believe the British are beginning to move against the rebels?**

A: Revere comes up with the idea to show one lantern on top of Christ's Church if by land, and two lanterns if the British are coming by sea. The warning will help the patriots be ready for any attach on Charlestown, and to know where they're attacking from.
 * 2.** **What is the signal to Charlestown that the patriots plan to use if the British move? Why will a warning help the patriots?**

__Chapter 2:__ A: Rab decides to leave Boston so he can join the Minute Men in Lexington. Johnny took the decision badly, and he thought Rab was deserting him. Johnny thought Rab was leaving and not caring about him. __Chapter 4:__ A: Billy Dawes' responsibility was to act as a drunk farmer and tell the people in Charlestown what the lantern code would mean. Paul Revere was to ride around and spread the alarm that the British were coming.
 * 1.** **Why does Rab decide to leave Boston? How does Johnny react to this decision?**
 * 1.** **What is Billy Dawes' responsibility in the patriots' plan? Paul Revere's?**

A: Johnny spreads the word to Robert Newman that two lanterns need to be hung in Christ's Church becuse the British are coming by boats.
 * 2.** **What important role does Johnny play in the patriot's plan?**

=__**Unit 11: Yankee Doodle**__= __Chapter 1:__ A: The fist battle occurs in Lexington, and the Minute Men lost because they were outnumbered 70 men to 700.
 * 1. Where does the first battle occur, and why are the Minute Men defeated?**

__Chapter 3:__ A: The British were unable to punish the opposition leaders because they were gone. __Chapter 4:__ A: Lavinia noticed the peak in his hair, which was just like his mothers. She also noticed that Johnny walked like his mother. __Chapter 5:__ A: Johnny meant that in a time without war he was considered a boy, and he acted like one. In a time of war Johnny had to step up and help, and become a man.
 * 1.Why are the British unable to punish the opposition leaders?**
 * 1. What detail about Johnny convinced Lavinia to find out about Johnny's past?**
 * 1. In Johnny's discussion with Mrs. Bessie he calls himself "A boy in time of peace and a man in time of war." What does this mean?**

=__**Unit 12: A Man Can Stand Up**__=

__Chapter 1:__ A: Johnny wears Pumpkins old British uniform to make him look like he was a British Soldier. Also, Johnny rolled in mud and put blood on him so he would look like he had been in a battle.
 * 1. What does Johnny do to his appearance to make him fit in with the way the British Soldiers look?**

__Chapter 2:__ A: Johnny had seen their perfectoin of equipment, discipline, grand gaudy uniforms, and their pride. The rebels didn't have much of any of that.
 * 1. Why is Johnny amazed that the rebels have defeated the British?**

__Chapter 3:__ A: Johnny thought that it was a hopeless but brave stand. He felt he could cry or laugh.
 * 1. What are Johnny's thoughts as he stands on Lexington Green? What is his emotional response?**

__Chapter 5:__ A: Rab dies because he got shot, and he bled too much. Johnny feels like hes in another world and he is stunned and sad. He also remembers James Otis speach. A: Johnny doesn't feel that his hand is a big deal after seeing what happened to Rab.
 * 1. Why does Rab die? What is Johnny's reactoin to his death?**
 * 2. Why doesn't Johnny feel ashamed of his hand anymore?**