April 19, 2011 Day One-Hundred and thirty-three

Music with Kat

Reading Journal Entry

Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes

Chapter Title or pages read:

1. What happened in the chapter?
   

   
    

   Johnny was working on his pitcher for Mister John Hancock. He had to miss Sunday Sermon which was completely against the law. He was working on it and spilled silver on his hand. It was a 4 degree burn… the worse and beyond burn you could get. He did it because he did it because he felt bad for missing Sermon. At the end of the chapter, after a month, Johnny got to see what his hand looked like and his thumb grew into his palm and stayed the way… Johnny had become crippled.
   

   
    

2. Were there any words you didn't understand? What were they and how did you learn the definition?
   

   
    

Crucible: A container of metal or refectory material employed for heating substances to high temperatures. I found out on Dictionary.com

 

1. How did the chapter make you feel?
   

   
    

   This chapter made me feel depressed because of Johnny's crippled hand and how the other kids tease him about it.
   

 

1. Was there anything in the chapter that relates to what you're learning elsewhere in the unit?
   

 

Yes, He has to make a decision to go be an apprentice to Paul Revere, who I am learning about now.

 

1. What do you think will happen next?
   

I think that "the shot heard 'round the world" will happen and Johnny becomes a soldier.

Boston Massacre 5 x 5

5 Vocabulary

1. Tar & Feather: A mob action in Revolutionary times, the colonists would literally put tar and feathers on the tax agents

2. Regiment: A military formation varying in size from a battalion to a number of battalions

3. Whigs: Another word for patriots

4. Patriot: A person who loves, supports, and defends his or her country and its interests with devotion.

5. Massacre:
The wanton or savage killing of large numbers of people, as in battle

5 Facts/Details

1. They were trying to protest so hard, they even said, "No Stamp Act" on teapots!

2. General Thomas Gage was the commander of troops of the British Army.

3. The Quartering act meant that any colonist family that had a British Army man come to their door had to let him stay the night providing him food, and a bed.

4. The colonists disagreed to the Quartering act.

5. Gage was so mad at the colonists about the Quartering act that he pulled down a Liberty pole in New York an chopped it in to little pieces to show his scorn.

5 Sentences

1. The is a British cartoon of Bostonians tarring and feathering the tax man.

2. The British were a regiment; they had a leader telling them what to do, while the Militia fought for themselves and were independent.

3. Patriots is a more common word than Whigs.

4. The patriots thought of the Tories as traders, just like the British thought of the Patriots as traders.

5. Only 5 people were killed the day of the Boston Massacre.

5 Questions

1. Who was the first person to die in the Boston Massacre? A: Crispus Attucks, a black sailor and former slave

2. How many people died total that day in Boston? A: 5 people died that day

3. What does it mean that the Patriots and people of Boston taunted the British soldiers? A: It means they started calling them names they didn't like, like 'redcoats" and "lobsterbacks"

4. Who was the lawyer for the British soldiers? Why is that strange? A: John Adams, because he was a patriot, he thought the law and a fair trial were more important than his own opinions or politics

5. What happened with the Sons of Liberty after the Boston Massacre? A: They formed "committees' correspondence" to keep patriots in all colonies in touch with each other?

5 Math from Fraction Stories Skill Review Quiz 2

8 problems and 100 %!