Martha Helps the Rebel

A Play by Carole CharlesOpen Court Reading

Unit 6 Lesson 4 Word Knowledge and Vocabulary

Word KnowledgeGrade 4, Unit 6 – Lesson 4

These words contain pairs of synonymsLine 1: brave valiant pursue chaseA synonym is a word that has the same or similar meaning to another word

These words have the /er/ soundLine 2: collar haggard scholar mustardSpelled ar

These words contain a consonant blendLine 3: stream twilight skillet gratefulConsonant blends: str, tw, sk, and gr

These words contain the Latin root portLine 4: transport report important support

Sentence 1: I’d chase all the British soldiers right back to England!

Sentence 2: The haggard soldier appeared at the door.

Sentence 3: Bring him back by the stream.

Sentence 4: Before independence, American officials were required to report to the King of England.

valiant

haggard

scholar

twilight

skillet

report

val-iant

• The soldier sang, “Come all you brave soldiers, Both valiant and free, It’s for independence, We all now agree.”

• We saw the valiant rescue of a little boy who had fallen through the ice.

valiant- brave and courageous

in-de-pen-dence

• The soldier sang, ”Come all you brave soldiers, Both valiant and free, It’s for independence, We all now agree.”

• Jenny enjoys the independence of having her own apartment.

Independence- freedom

raft-ers

• I want you up on those rafters, right over the sport where the quilting rack will be.

• Some birds had built a nest in the rafters of the barn.

rafters- beams that support a roof

Con-ti-nent-al Army

• My husband is a soldier with the Continental Army too.

• The Continental Army fought the British Army in the Revolutionary War.

Continental Army- American Army that fought the British during the Revolutionary War

de-fi-ant

• Martha said in a defiant voice, “My name is Martha, not ‘Little Girl!’”

• The defiant toddler wouldn’t do anything his parents told him to do.

defiant- standing up against authority; resisting authority

The American Revolution

• The American Revolution refers to the period during the last half of the 18th century in which the Thirteen Colonies that became the United States of America gained independence from the British Empire.

• In this period, the Colonies rebelled against the British Empire and entered into the American Revolutionary War between 1775 and 1783. This culminated in an American declaration of independence in 1776, and victory on the battlefield in 1781.

The American Revolution

The Revolutionary War

The Revolutionary War