Varney+Joe

Varney Joe

Unit 1: Up and About
__Chapter 1__

1. He was the boss of the attic and he orders Dove and Dusty around.

2. Dove doesn't like Johnny because Dove is older and Johnny bosses him around a lot.

__Chap____ter 3__

1. I think he is pretty serious about his work. He likes everything to be done right. He also wants to be a silversmith.

__Chapter 4__ //​// 1. He takes his work seriously so he can do a good job.

__Chapter 6__

1. On one side is engraved the crest of the Lytes. This was an eye rising up from the sea. From it, rays of light streamed out, half-covering the surface of the cup.

=**Unit 2: The pride of your power**=

__Chapter 1__

1. Johnny turns down Paul Revere's offer because he doesn't want to let Mr.Lapham down on the vase.

__Chapter 3__

1. Johnny told Dove to grab the crucible. When Dove went to grab it he saw a hole in it. He thought it would be funny for the silver to spill so he didn't tell Johnny. When he poured the silver in, it spilled on his hand, and it burned him.

__Chapter 5__

1. Johnny's life changed as a result to the accident because to be a silversmith you need to have full function of both hands. Now that his one hand is stuck together he can no longer do that. = = =**Unit 3: An Earth of Brass**=

__Chapter 1__

1. Rab didn't care about Johnny having a maimed hand. Rab liked Johnny as a friend regardless of his disability. Johnny likes Rab as a friend because Rab is nice to him and doesn't make a big deal about his hand. He knows Rab likes him for who he is.

__Chapter 3__

1. Since Johnny can longer be a silversmith, he now lives in a world of brass. He must take on a lower job like most everyone else and doesn't like it.

=**Unit 4: The Rising Eye**=

__Chapter 1__

1. Merchant Lyte was a Boston merchant. He was crooked and cruel.

__Chapter 2__

1. The Whigs believed that taxation without representation was tyranny. The Tories believed that all differences could be settled with time, patience, and respect for government. The Whigs agreed not to import any English goods until the Stamp Act was repealed. The Tories continued to import goods.

__Chapter 5__

1. The criminal punishments mentioned are being fined, whipped, set in the stocks, or held for a higher court.

2. The decision favored Johnny because there was not enough evidence to convict Johnny.

=**Unit 5: The Boston Observer**=

__Chapter 2__

1. Johnny's responsibility was to deliver newspapers. Johnny is hired by Adams to ride for the Boston Committee of Correspondence. He also is involved in the secret Whig meetings held in Johnny and Rab's loft.

__Chapter 3 and 4__

1. Johnny feels good about his new life with Rab and his new job. He cares about the Laphams, but enjoys his new life more.

2. People tend to live up to the expectation of others because other people's expectations gives them a goal to achieve.

3. Rab suggests to Johnny that he stops drawing attention to his hand. The less he draws attention to it, then the less other people notice it.

4. The Observers' Club is a treasonous organization because they plan and act out crimes against the nation.

=**Unit 6: Salt-Water Tea**=

__Chapter 5__

1.He needed to learn how to chop wood with an axe.

=**Unit 7: The Fiddler's Bill**=

__Chapter 1__

1.England shut down the port until they paid off the debt.

2.They had to work together to keep from dying from starvation.

__Chapter 2__

1.The general wanted the soldiers and the colonists to work out their troubles and not argue. He was not a tyrant.

__Chapter 3__

1. Lieutenant Stranger knew Johnny was just trying to keep the horse out of the army.

2. Johnny could not help himself. Dove has been hanging around during his free time and he forgave him for things in the past.

__Chapter 4__

1. He felt bad for Mrs. Lapham and all she had to do.

__Chapter 5__

1.Sam Adams spy that lived in the Lyte household was Ms. Bessie, the Lyte's cook.

=**Unit 8: A World to Come**=

__Chapter 1__

1. The mob is pursuing the Lyte's because they have a spy in their group.

__Chapter 2__

1. The bible has a family genealogy in it and discovers his mom's name in it. It says she was married to Charles Latour and they both died before Johnny was born.

2. Johnny knew the Lyte's weren't coming back. It was going to be the beginning of the civil war.

__Chapter 5__

1. James Otis is talking about freedom and rights that will be enjoyed a hundred years from now.

=**Unit 9: The Scarlet Deluge**=

__Chapter 1__

1. Scarlet deluge means lots of blood.

__Chapter 3__

1. Johnny learned to face his problems not run away from them.

2. They were making there own bullets and cartridges to fit there gun.

__Chapter 5__

1. Johnny feels scared and like a coward.

=**Unit 10: "Disperse, Ye Rebels"**=

__Chapter 1__

1. Soldiers were sharpening there bayonets. British tranports were preparing there landing boats.

2. They plann to show one lantern if the british go out over the neck and two if in boats.It will give the Minute Man time to get into the field.

__Chapter 2__

1. Rab intended to be in the fighting. Johnny didn't want Rab to dessert him.

__Chapter 4__

1. Billy Dawes' responsibility was to excite the arm rebellion.Paul Revere was to ride, spread the alarm and some of the minute man.

2. Johnny told Newman there were two lights.

=**Unit 11: Yankee Doodle**=

__Chapter 1__

1. The first battle occured in Lexington. There are defeated because it was 700 against 70.

__​Chapter 3__

1. The British were unable to punish the opposition leaders because when they went to arrest them they had left town.

__Chapter 4__

1. It was Johnny's widow's peak on his forehead and his walk.

__Chapter 5__

1. Johnny felt like he needed to go out and fight.

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

__Chapter 1__

1. Johnny put mud on his face, rolled in the muck, and tore his jacket.

__Chapter 2__

1. The British had the equipment, discipline, and uniforms that the rebels didn't have.

__Chapter 3__

1. Johnny looks at Lexington Green he thinks about all of the farmers that died there. He begins to cry.

__Chapter 5__

1. Rab was shot.Johnny was shocked.

2. Johnny learned from Rab how to deal with it.

=**Think about:**=

3. Johnny went from everything coming easy to him to learning how to deal with struggles.